Tim Meadows and Craig Ferguson Attempt to Talk Football (VIDEO)

In one of his more famous routines, George Carlin compared football to baseball. Thursday night on 'The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson' (weeknights, 12:35AM on CBS), Ferguson and Tim Meadows compared football and football, or rather, American football and what we call soccer here in the New World.

Ferguson started the show by having Sid, his white rabbit puppet, talk about how he was looking forward to the new football season, especially his favorite team, the Detroit Lions. "This season," he said, "this is the season for us, the Detroit Lions," before laughing and disappearing from the camera view.

Unfortunately, Meadows' team happens to be the Lions, which Ferguson mentioned with mock surprise. Ferguson doesn't actually know much about American football, and started to get confused when Meadows brought up the Lions' quarterback. "In European football, he'd be the, what?" said Meadows. Ferguson said the center forward. "See, I'm bored already," joked Meadows.