It’s called football because it’s primarily played with the feet (unlike that other ”football” game).
You mean handegg
American football has been referred to as just football (in America) longer than football (soccer) was called just football in Britain. It was called association football as a distinct game separate from rugby football and other football games. Football distinguishing it from games played on horseback. Soccer was British slang from association (similarly at the time rugby football has slang term rugger.) Eventually the association part fell out of use but other countries that had developed their own football games tended to still call it soccer. I don't really care either way, I'll call it football when talking to people who call it football and soccer with people who call out soccer, I just think the origin of the terms is pretty interesting.
Football distinguishing it from games played on horseback
The problem with this line of argument is that basketball would also be football, as would baseball, cricket, hockey, and even cycling.
You had me until cycling. Which would clearly be "ball-less tech polo" or something like that 🤷🏻
You mean football, football, football, knifeball, and wheelball?
It’s called football because people run around on their feet, as opposed to horseback for polo.
So basketball, baseball and handball is basically football too, neat.
Are you proposing to renaming polo to horse golf? This logic is a bit weird but sure.
Are you proposing to renaming polo to horse golf
Excellent idea tbh!
Mr. Beast has always been and will continue to be a huge piece of shit.
It must be a generational thing but that guy creeps me the fuck out, and if horrific allegations about him came to light, I would not be surprised.
One if the very few YouTubers I forbid my kids to watch. He's pretty much a summary of what's rotten in our civilization. Such a piece of shit.
There are worse individuals, apparently the wells he dug in Africa were a real philanthropic venture.
That said, I would be fine with his career ending, I am sure many more people would be doing far better jobs than him.
The only reason he hasn't fully embraced MAGA is because it'll kill his ratings.
This is how I learned the US lost at the World Cup.
They didn’t just lose, their king pissed of the Europeans so much they felt it necessary to stomp them in to the ground
Deserved
On one hand, as an American, I would have loved to see us win.
On the other, nothing made me happier than seeing our asses get handed to us after Trump played interference.
We should instead go back to calling American football "gridiron." It sounds cooler.
I prefer handegg.
A toxic masculinity-fueled sport like that could do with a whimsical but accurate name to balance things out.
waitball, where you spend most of the game waiting for them to do something with the ball
Wasn't there a chance of winning the World cup at around 1%? They had such a crap team that they had to import players from other countries who were technically American but didn't actually live there. Irony of irony is that Trump relies on immigrants to fill out the team.
MrBeast filmed himself rigging sweepstakes and contests, endangering people with reckless negligence, but is still makes new videos.
Other people have had their careers ended over mere uncorroborated allegations of misconduct, so why tf is that loser still making shit?
Can they also adopt the metric system like everyone else while they're at it too?
And also dump Phillips screw heads. They're godawful.
Torx is king, but I would happily use only Phillips if we as humans got rid of slotted screws/screwdrivers. Every single time I'm forced to use one it annoys me. You can minimize it slipping out by using the right size, but who the hell wants to use or carry more than one of these? And it still doesn't eliminate the problems, whether you use it for high or low torque applications...
The only good thing about slot screws is that you can use any reasonable flat thing as an emergency screwdriver. And the screwdrivers can serve as a general purpose prying tool I guess. They suck at their official job.
Since they won, we should rename that bit of water the Gulf of Belgium.
Checkmate: we now only order Freedom Waffles.
I would not be surprised if MrBeast was outted as a nonce
With that 4-1 whipping USA has to change to metric.
MrBeast IS a 13 year old brain piloting a grown man's body.
I find it funny that he says "full stop" too which is a British, not American phrase.
May not be common, but I've heard it in american slang. I think its more an old carry over from telegrams that never quite left our shared language.
People with kids, please don’t let them get brainwashed by those cancer influencers
I hate this sentiment. I'm never going to let go of the word soccer, and it's irritating to pretend like I would. The Brits have decided they're done saying soccer and they only say football now, and it's irritating to pretend like anything the US does will change it. Let dialects be dialects and let's be done with it.
Soccer is a British word though, but predominantly southerner / Oxfordian.
Association Football used to get contracted to Assoc or Soc to differentiate it from Rugby Football.
And in Oxford, they historically liked to add -er to the end of things; still in parlance today is calling Rugby “rugger”, £5 note “fiver”, the Bodleian Library “Bodder”.
Assoc became “soccer”.
It’s not an American thing. It’s a posh southern England thing that got exported to the states by American students at Oxford returning stateside and bringing the game back with them, and forgotten by the English because the southern teams pale in comparison to the north’s.
Mr. Beast is an American ambassador for sure! He's probably yachting in the Gulf of America as we speak!
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