Soccer was coined by the British, btw. It's your fault we call it that.
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I'm not British, don't EVER accuse me of something so heinous again.
Ya know. I’m not a big fan of this cgi and look. Just a gut reaction.
eggball
Football is a sport played all over the world. American Football is only played in the USA and Canada.
Sorry, Americans, but you lost this battle ages ago. Just let it go.
Run it by me again... You carry the ball in your hands and run forwards? You occasionally throw it, again using your hands?
What do you call it?
Football.
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Americans when you call it "rugby for girls" and not "runny jumpy catch between adverts":
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Pretty sure there is more than one foot involved. Therefore it should be called feetball.
That's why football is called football. There's only one kicker. One foot.
See? Here we go.
Soccer - Uses both feet. Should be called feetball.
NFL - Only uses one foot to touch the ball. During punts or feildgoals. Accurately named football.
One of my all time favorite memes
Most of the world calls it football because feet and ball. American football is usually referred to as commercials or ads.
It seems so stupid to me that Americans took over the name football for a sport thats not even mainly played by foot, and then pretend like thats the sport that naturally belongs to the name. Like wtf.
This is why the fuck: american football evolved from Association Football (soccer) and rugby. Americans didn't take over the name, the names for each version of the "ball game on a field with goals at either end" developed from different regional slang as each sport evolved and grew into popularity in their respective places. Each of those sports developed various shortened or slang versions of their name. Rugby was really Rugby football. Association football became soccer, a term coined in London and adopted by Americans. Gridiron football evolved from both and become what Americans just called football.
Etymology-wise, football is actually called football because it's done on foot as opposed to on horse.
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I didn't know Baraka was a limey.
‘Soccer’ is the British word for the sport already. Don’t let them pretend
Can we just call it all football!?
- Ruggers Football
- Assoccers Football
- Gridders Football
- Basketters Netball
- Softy Rounders Ball
- Crickers Baseman’s Ball
And let’s have mixed teams
Given the original meaning of football is a ball game played on foot rather than on horseback, yes, they are all football.
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