EpicAura99 t1_itatyly wrote
Petty hill to die on: stop giving American soccer teams boring ass European names. LA Football Club? At least call it soccer club, for one, and for two be more creative. What’s the mascot, a club sandwich? Lame. Any elementary schooler could come up with a name a billion times more fun than this creative equivalent of a ream of printer paper.
kroush104 t1_itb3rja wrote
Tell me you don’t understand soccer culture without telling me you don’t understand soccer culture.
Seriously man, stick to what you know.
EpicAura99 t1_itcf993 wrote
Be less boring
kroush104 t1_itcg4vk wrote
You mean like grown adults playing pretend that they’re something scary?
“Oooooohhh, the other team better be afraid of us. We have a picture of a birds wing on our hats! And a guy on the sidelines dressed up like a giant stuffed animal!”
The idea that you need to name your team some animal or Native American tribe name is ridiculous. Let’s look at the self-appointed names of the current top teams in College football. We have:
- a house dog
- a poisonous tree nut
- a person who agrees to help
- a rodent
- a killer cat (but very unoriginal nickname)
- a meteorological event
Yeah, that is WAY stupider than just naming your team after the place the team is located.
EpicAura99 t1_itchh38 wrote
Yeah, it is, killjoy.
How about we don’t make you name your teams things you don’t like, and we don’t import your boring naming conventions?
kroush104 t1_itcx37y wrote
I guess if you’re going to watch a sport where games last 4 hours but there’s only 13 minutes of actual game action, you need to find some other way to entertain yourself (like arguing whether our adult grown men pretending to be birds of prey are more intimidating than your adult men pretending to be bears).
Cool, you do you. I’ll just keep watching a sport which last under 2 hours and where there is actually 90 minutes of gameplay.
EpicAura99 t1_itd2f4b wrote
It’s hilarious how much of a straw man you’re constructing here. I’ve seen more rational interpretations of an opponent from Ben Shapiro.
kroush104 t1_itd3scs wrote
I think the idea of a toddler being like “ggrrrrr, I’m a sca-wee animal” is adorable. But when a grown man does it, it’s just pathetic.
Maybe that’s what American football is - a sport for children. I’ll keep watching a grown up sport where we don’t pretend to be something else.
EpicAura99 t1_itd7ieb wrote
You keep saying that and it’s hilariously untrue. Do all Brits wear a top hat and monocle at all times? Do Germans always wear lederhosen?
kroush104 t1_itd7xx7 wrote
I’m missing your point. Brits and Germans soccer teams don’t use silly mascots either.
It’s really only stupid American sports which feel the need to do this.
EpicAura99 t1_itd8yh8 wrote
First of all, what I’m saying is, do Arsenal players and fans run around pretending to be a building that stores weapons? No? Well Seattle Seahawks players and fans don’t run around pretending to be Seahawks, moron.
Second, it’s called “culture”. I’m not sure you’re familiar with it. It means, “people in different places do different things”, and contrary to your belief, it’s an ok thing! We do things differently. Chill about it. It doesn’t affect you.
kroush104 t1_itdardp wrote
HAHAHAHAHAHA. Do you think “Arsenal” is a mascot?!?! Lol. No, it’s a location. It’s the name of the district in London where the team is located.
No EPL team has a mascot. Nor do any teams in Germany or Spain or France or Italy.
EpicAura99 t1_itdb9kx wrote
Yes I’m fucking aware. I was making a point. It’s the name of the team. Some mascots aren’t the same as the team name. Stanford’s team is the Cardinals, as in the color. Their mascot is this horrific looking tree abomination, which represents Palo Alto, the tree on the school logo, and the tree that the city of Palo Alto is named after.
These elements (while not always) can contain a great deal of local or historical symbolism.
kroush104 t1_itdic48 wrote
I was using the term “mascot” as a colloquialism for a team name which is something other than the location of the team.
So the Cardinal (which for the record, is Stanford’s team name, not Cardinals) or Bears or Eagles or Tigers or whatever..
The_JohnnyPisspot t1_itfb3u6 wrote
So Canadian MLB, NBA, and NHL teams don't exist? Japanese baseball teams don't exist?
This is not exclusively an American thing
The_JohnnyPisspot t1_itfaumh wrote
You're both being ridiculous but this comment is especially ridiculous given how prevalent flopping is in soccer. Divas taking a dive if someone so much as looks at them wrong doesn't exactly seem "grown up".
kroush104 t1_itfy3ik wrote
Oh look, a comment from someone who clearly hasn’t seen a soccer game since 2005. Thanks for chiming in!
JoDiMaggio t1_itbcvd0 wrote
Soccer is slang for Association Football. As opposed to Gridiron Football.
FredVIII-DFH t1_itc62vc wrote
Actually... it's "As opposed to Rugby Football" of which Gridiron Football is a bastardization of. The word "soccer" was used in England as late as the 1980s when it finally fell out of favor.
EpicAura99 t1_itcfd1g wrote
Yes I’m aware. Other teams say “soccer club”.
StupidMastiff t1_ithuu62 wrote
I don't care either way, but one advantage I see in having a generic name like Los Angeles Football Club, is it makes relocating the team a bit more difficult. It would be easier to move the LA Galaxy to New York for example, and keep the Galaxy name and branding, whereas moving LAFC to another city can't keep any of it's name.
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