I’ve been trying to get Water Polo changed for years as it’s and presumably cruel to the horses.

It was mostly called football, but occasionally soccer (derived from Association Football as being distinct from Rugby Football, occasionally referred to as “rugger”). The pedants got sniffy about it being used exclusively as the name of the game in the US for the same reason that the word football dropped out of…

Shame. I would have liked to have seen this. Maybe they can make a movie on 1999 Women’s Team.

It’s worse than that, they found out “football” was called “soccer” in the UK and the majority of the English speaking world until the 1980s, but they changed it to give pedants something to post about on the Internet so they can feel snobby.

Someone realized that one of the people in the story referred to Taiwan?

My initial thought at seeing the the headline was that someone on Twitter finally got around to watching Dazed and Confused and called for McConaughey to be cancelled for it, but it sounds like there could be an actual issue with the real life coach.

I don’t really get upset over what a lot of other commentors call “click-baity” titles for various reasons but this one...it’s toeing up to the line of being misleading IMO.

I get both your and Jackson’s point.  I was just answering the question as to why it happens in the first place.

They finally discovered Soccer has been criminally impersonating Football for decades?

So you’re not a fan of the tons and tons of British actors who are playing Americans then?

...so The Wizard, if that movie was about someone becoming an actual Super Mario...

I was also surprised by Rockwell’s casting. Normally it’s Brit actors taking jobs from the Americans, while Americans can convincingly pull of a Brit accent.

Pretty sure that’s the plot of The Last Starfighter, not The Wizard.

Slattery is from here (Boston) so maybe he helped iron out the “authenticity.”

I’m always a fan of characters who just relentlessly fuck with the other characters and they don’t notice.

And T’bo Ted Marshall.

Aww, sounds like it needed Mr. Ben Dover. 

I read the Fletch books after seeing the movie when it initially came out. I was actually somewhat disappointed in them, because I had been spoiled by the singular amalgamation of peak Chevy Chase, Harold Faltermeyer’s best overall score (sorry, Beverly Hills Cop and Top Gun), and made-for-Hollywood script.

The Fletch novels I’ve read are some of the best-written, most tightly-paced novels of the genre I’ve read. McDonald can get away with one page chapters and totally earn it.

I did spell Lee right? It is 리?