Soccer was coined by the British, btw. It's your fault we call it that.
I'm not British, don't EVER accuse me of something so heinous again.
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.
Funfact soccer is a British word not an American one. The British popularized it.
The same thing happened with aluminum. The current American way of saying it is actually the original British wah. Since they made it.
The British changed and America just stuck to the original way the British wanted everyone to say it.
So again it's not America who's wrong, it's the British being stupid telling people what to do. Then getting mad when they do it.
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":
Womens rugby is infinitely better than American Football
Ya know. I’m not a big fan of this cgi and look. Just a gut reaction.
Most of the world calls it football because feet and ball. American football is usually referred to as commercials or ads.
Etymology-wise, football is actually called football because it's done on foot as opposed to on horse.
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.
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Pretty sure there is more than one foot involved. Therefore it should be called feetball.
‘Soccer’ is the British word for the sport already. Don’t let them pretend
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