clairobscur, I believe the term you are looking for is Poe’s Law.
We can’t even manage to bail out Greece, and you want us to bail out the USA?
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No, in fact I don’t understand the Boredom/irony Proportional Square Law. In fact, I don’t understand anything in your post.
When I read it, I’m tempted to ask where I can get the same thing you had.
Yes. Thanks.
We call it “football” because, in the course of playing it, one strikes a ball regularly with one’s foot. Your national sport should really be called “handegg”. Or “rugby for pussies who need armour”. (Insert smiley of your choice here)
If you call it football, why do you play it with a soccer ball? And you have no idea why our sport is called football do you? So go play your silly game. “oooo I can’t touch the ball with my hands, what a super game!”
It because after wearing all that padding all day long your balls end up smelling like dirty feet?
We’ve got the Liberty Bell, Disneyland on both coasts, it’s happening.
Big country Europe. If you can find it on a map, you’re a better man than I. You’re not French Canadian, are you?
Oh, and to answer the title, Operation Gladio and for the English, the Suez.
Yes please. 
Again, “foot” “ball”… it seems self-explanatory. Admittedly you do let someone on the field once in a while, escorted by a marching band and wearing boots you can barely walk in, to take one pre-programmed swing at the ball after due pomp and ceremony (I mean, if you want to see punting and so on then watch Rugby some time and you’ll see it improvised on a regular basis by ordinary Joes dressed like everyone else who have to pull a full workload of kicking, catching, passing, tackling and running, and even the place-kicker spends the rest of the match at his day job), but you have to admit, for nearly all the game the “foot” part of the name might as well not exist.
This is unnecessarily reductionist. We also have burgers without cheese.
I agree, it really should be called Yardball, which is stupid but better than Meterball.
It should be called Dorkball. 
But then, I am a soccer fan.
Just good cuisine from the heartland: a friday night fish fry with a bucket of microbrews (or ‘local lagers’).
But I am grateful to the Europeans for many things, including the ‘futbol’ league I play in. And I’d agree, the sport that uses feet should get to use the name, and we can come up with a new name for that “rugby for wusses”-- something better than Yardball…
(the only good thing about Yardball is that the games are only about a third as long as a Meterball game)
At what point does mockery become ridicule?
In the spirit of the Games, let us deny fuckholery, and embrace fuckstabbery as it applies to poor etv78.
Really, I just need a hug. Could we all bring in it for a minute?
Again, you don’t know why the real sport of football is called that. Typical Euro-ignorance. You wouldn’t catch an American mouthing off about your English Rules Ice Hockey or whatever you call that exciting game where a rout is a 1-0 score without knowing what he was talking about.
They should call it “Time-Out Ball”.
I remember one themed gaming night we did a few years ago, playing Blood Bowl while watching the SuperBowl with popcorn and [del]piss[/del]Budweiser. I swear the action on the screen paused more often than that on the game board, and it’s a turn-based game ! With 4-min long turns at the most !
I’m American, and I love stinky cheese. And I’d like to go record as saying that I found the people in Paris to be amazingly friendly. It bothers me a little that a lot of Europeans stereotype Americans, but at the end of the day it’s not a big deal. Life’s too short to worry about that shit.
Ah. The *real *sport of football. You know, the one that was invented decades, if not centuries, after the *fake *sport of football.