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Subject: There is no football in "football"

This is a football

Do you call the sport Soccer, Soccer or Football? It always confuses me when people are talking about Soccer but calling it football. I don't see how we adapted the two different words to be honest. Anyone have the history behind it?

  • 01.04.2013 8:49 AM PDT

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Posted by: kikashi hatake
This is a football

Do you call the sport Soccer, Soccer or Football? It always confuses me when people are talking about Soccer but calling it football. I don't see how we adapted the two different words to be honest. Anyone have the history behind it?


Real football (from Europe) is a game in which you kick the BALL, with your FOOT, to score goals.

American football, you kick it then hang onto it like an abusive father holds his baby. Why is it called football if you're all running around HOLDING it...?

  • 01.04.2013 8:51 AM PDT

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I try to call it American Football online, since everyone in the world seems to be retarded.

Also, what is Soccer/Football called since you use your feet, except you can use your chest and head and one player can use their hands?

[Edited on 01.04.2013 8:53 AM PST]

  • 01.04.2013 8:51 AM PDT


Posted by: kikashi hatake
This is a football

Do you call the sport Soccer, Soccer or Football? It always confuses me when people are talking about Soccer but calling it football. I don't see how we adapted the two different words to be honest. Anyone have the history behind it?


What on earth are you smoking? Soccer was football before America crated American Football. It was then renamed Soccer to avoid confusion.

Seriously now...

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  • 01.04.2013 8:54 AM PDT

While the name itself is weird, American football is better than English football.

Why? Because the players in American football aren't cry babies and cry and fall on the floor when they're tapped.

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Football - The game loved in nearly every country in the World, Americans call this "Soccer".

American Football - means the NFL and is only loved by the US and a miniscule amount of people outside the US compared to the countless millions who love football.

[Edited on 01.04.2013 9:01 AM PST]

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Posted by: crazyfoomandude
American football, you kick it then hang onto it like an abusive father holds his baby.

  • 01.04.2013 8:54 AM PDT

I call the sport soccer, Football. Like it should be called.

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Posted by: floppy willy
While the name itself is weird, American football is better than English football.

Why? Because the players in American football aren't cry babies and cry and fall on the floor when they're tapped.


I have to agree. Soccer can be a very skillful sport but some of the dives are ridiculous.

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Posted by: Lillehammer
Also, what is Soccer/Football called since you use your feet, except you can use your chest and head and one player can use their hands?

Because mostly they use their feet to go around the playing field with the ball?


I don't really care tho

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Posted by: Nope.avi
While the name itself is weird, American football is better than English football.

Why? Because the players in American football aren't cry babies and cry and fall on the floor when they're tapped.


Get it right: they get tackled and come back for more; they get face-masked or low-blowed, and it's all Hulk rage from there.

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Posted by: floppy willy
While the name itself is weird, American football is better than English football.

Why? Because the players in American football aren't cry babies and cry and fall on the floor when they're tapped.


That's not 'English football'

Watch some English football from the 1980's, it was rather brutal.

It was the Italians who brought in the diving and crying and b*tching.

Do some research before you spew -blam!- here.

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I'm crying that made my laugh so hard lol.
Posted by: crazyfoomandude
American football, you kick it then hang onto it like an abusive father holds his baby.


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Posted by: Lillehammer
Also, what is Soccer/Football called since you use your feet, except you can use your chest and head and one player can use their hands?

Because mostly they use their feet to go around the playing field with the ball?


I don't really care tho

Okay. So MostlyFootUnlessSomeoneWantsToUseTheirHeadOrChestAndThenThere IsTheGuyWhoCanUseHisHandsBall. Doesn't roll off the tongue very well.

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Football (soccer) is boring as hell.

American Football is a much more skill and strategy based game.

[Edited on 01.04.2013 9:03 AM PST]

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Posted by: kikashi hatake
I don't see how we adapted the two different words to be honest. Anyone have the history behind it?

American football evolved from football, it would have been easier to distinguish between the 2 sports if the names were more differentiable. So the name Soccer was invented.

The real question here, if you don't mind my saying so, is how footballs got to be prolate spheroids ("round but pointy," for you rustics) rather than perfectly spherical. As usual with these pivotal episodes in history, it was an accident. Henry Duffield, who witnessed the second Princeton-Rutgers game in 1869, tells why:

"The ball was not an oval but was supposed to be completely round. It never was, though it was too hard to blow up right. The game was stopped several times that day while the teams called for a little key from the sidelines. They used it to unlock the small nozzle which was tucked into the ball, and then took turns blowing it up. The last man generally got tired and they put it back in play somewhat lopsided."

The odd shape of the ball, eventually enshrined in the rules, was turned to advantage with the introduction of the forward pass in 1906, which was made possible by the fact that you could grip the ball (barely) around the narrow part. Passing got a lot easier in the 1930s when the rules committee ordered the watermelon of previous decades slimmed down by an inch and a half, opening the door for the modern aerial game.

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Posted by: brandorobot
American Football is a much more skill


No. Football takes far more skill. Imagine a QB passing the ball to a receiver with his feet. Then have every player on the pitch being able to do it rather than just one.

and strategy based game.

NFL is more strategic though.

[Edited on 01.04.2013 9:11 AM PST]

  • 01.04.2013 9:10 AM PDT

While I hate both footballs, the English football is the real football, with the American crap being Handegg.

Seriously, every other country's word for football is something similar to "Football". Spanish is "futbol", French is "le foot", yet Americans go and derp it up by calling it..."Soccer".

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Posted by: kikashi hatake
This is a football

Do you call the sport Soccer, Soccer or Football? It always confuses me when people are talking about Soccer but calling it football. I don't see how we adapted the two different words to be honest. Anyone have the history behind it?


Real football (from Europe) is a game in which you kick the BALL, with your FOOT, to score goals.

American football, you kick it then hang onto it like an abusive father holds his baby. Why is it called football if you're all running around HOLDING it...?
As an America, I DON'T KNOW! But I love watching it. I thought American football (NFL) was derived from rugby? Correct me if I'm wrong here.

  • 01.04.2013 9:17 AM PDT

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Yeah that is football for me too. However It would make more sense to call soccer and football. and football something else.

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Posted by: brandorobot
American Football is a much more skill


No. Football takes far more skill. Imagine a QB passing the ball to a receiver with his feet. Then have every player on the pitch being able to do it rather than just one.

Football is far more precise and planned. It takes every single player being on point and outplaying the other team in their position. There are far more variables involved in getting the ball downfield to score.

[Edited on 01.04.2013 9:22 AM PST]

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Posted by: BF117HALO
While I hate both footballs, the English football is the real football, with the American crap being Handegg.

Seriously, every other country's word for football is something similar to "Football". Spanish is "futbol", French is "le foot", yet Americans go and derp it up by calling it..."Soccer".
The British came up with the name "Soccer". It was also the original name for the sport.

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