New name for american futbol

[KingsGambit_v1legacy]

Isn't there already "Grid Iron" as a name for American Football?

Or better yet, how about something more accurate?

 

[Godhead]

How about we just call it football or American Football if you're not American and stop being so fucking anal about this non-issue?

 

[Somebloke]

I have long wondered if these sort of things are simply an adolescent nation's persistent "petulant" displays of independence.

'"Imperial"? We'll have none of your "king's" gallons, we'll have our own, thank you very much.'

 

[FPLOON]

Wait.... "American Futbol"? What the [REDACTED] is THAT??

I only know of Football and Futbol (aka Soccer, the word that's apparently like calling someone a [REDACTED]) and I'm pretty sure "American Futbol" does not exist... We have both Football and, to a "lesser" extent, Soccer... I think you meant to say a "new name for Football", given what you're actually talking about...

/failedsarcasm

With that said, I don't see why we would need another name for Football (outside of just saying NFL, I guess), especially if they come off either sounding more degrading and/or "less serious" than the the word "Soccer", apparently...

 

[Petromir]

Well..

Association football (known as football and soccer) effectively spawned Rugby Union. Rugby Union then split and Rugby League was formed in the split.

Rugby League effectively spawned the Gridiron forms of football the defining moment being the legalisation of the forward pass.

I'm not sure how Aussie Rules fits in, and fairly sure the game that the game Association football codified (wrote formal rules for) was similar to GAA football.

 

[Petromir]

I have long wondered if these sort of things are simply an adolescent nation's persistent "petulant" displays of independence.

'"Imperial"? We'll have none of your "king's" gallons, we'll have our own, thank you very much.'

Imperial? Thats a word of Empire thats more a Royal thing. (Also the UK uses Imperial for Gallons, feet inches etc, its just some vary between out imperial and theirs..)

 

[Megalodon]

I heard that the different sizes of gallons and barrels were actually a dick move on the part of the Brits. Tax was charged per gallon/barrel/pint etc., and we wanted more money from America, so we said "We're not raising taxes, but from now on your barrels/gallons/pints are smaller than ours." Same effect, but technically the tax rate didn't change

Nope not at all.

It turns out that before we all got organised and vaguely standardised, there were several 'gallons' in use. Specifically one for wine and one for ale, the wine gallon being smaller. The US adopted the wine gallon as the standard gallon. While the British adopted a volume very similar to the old ale gallon for the standardised Imperial measurements. Both of these official gallons were adopted in the 19th century.

So America, you can't blame us for your silly, puny gallons and pints .

 

[nodlimax]

Is that actually still a sport? I always thought it was a bunch of commercials with something else in between.....

 

[LetalisK]

I suggest we rename soccer to blueball. That's the only way I can describe a sport where players hustle their ass off for 2 hours and they accomplish nothing, ending in a 0-0 tie.

 

[Comocat]

I recently moved to Germany, and as an American I really can't win either way. If I say fußbol people ask me if I mean soccer and if I say soccer people laugh and let me know its called fußbol. It is as if Europeans cant comprehend that Americans can distinguish between two very different sports with similar names and it's incredibly irritating.

 

[RealRT]

Handegg, gridiron, whatever, just stop calling it fucking football, since, you know, it involves hands much more than it involves feet and the ball doesn't even look like a ball.

 

[putowtin]

You'd think the world could just do that as well and not have to worry about coming up with alternate names for things.

Calling football soccer in the UK is like punching someone's sainted grandmother in the tit. If you are american you will be excused but for a native its a massive social faux pas. I dont know why this is the case it just is

To paraphrase Rich Hall,

"It was mine before you stole it,
It was mine before you could break it, wreck it,
Turn it into something you play for 15 minutes
In big shoulder pads!"

That's how most Brits see American Football

 

[spartan231490]

Hi there,

I talk with a fair number of people online and they bring up sports a lot. They really enjoy american futbol and we often talk about that and real football, the problem is that it gets annoying saying 'american futbol' and they really don't like it. So I'm trying to think of a subsitute name. Obviously I can't call it 'handegg' as it comes off insulting. They've taken to calling football 'footy'. So the best I have so far is 'pass ball'. Handball is already used so that's out of the picture. 'Soccer' is off limits as it's insulting(even if it's a bastardized version of a word a select few used to refer to football a long, long time ago).

Can you guys help me come up with a non-insulting term for american futbol?

Thanks!

So, it's insulting call futbol soccer, even though it is a propper name for it, but it's not insulting to invent an entirely new name for football with no greater purpose than to make it more convenient for you? Do you realize how self-centered and even xenophobic that is?

 

[fenrizz]

The name "soccer" is insulting? ...Why? It's a proper identifier in the US. Perhaps instead of making a problem out of nothing, you instead accept that some things have different names based on location and culture. You know, that "tolerance" thing everyone keeps banging on about.

One cannot tolerate vile blasphemy!
[small]That was a joke, haha[/small]

I suggest we rename soccer to blueball. That's the only way I can describe a sport where players hustle their ass off for 2 hours and they accomplish nothing, ending in a 0-0 tie.

Did you not watch Brazil - Germany?
Also, football is 2x 45 minutes (1.5 hours) of standard play.

Handegg, gridiron, whatever, just stop calling it fucking football, since, you know, it involves hands much more than it involves feet and the ball doesn't even look like a ball.

Pretty much agree on this.
But I'll let it slide if you please stop calling it soccer, it makes me cringe.

 

[maxben]

You'd think the world could just do that as well and not have to worry about coming up with alternate names for things.

Calling football soccer in the UK is like punching someone's sainted grandmother in the tit. If you are american you will be excused but for a native its a massive social faux pas. I dont know why this is the case it just is

Which is funny because the Brits invented the word Soccer. At the time, there were like 10 games called football, including Rugby Football (now called Rugby) and Association Football (now called Soccer or just Football). Soccer, like rugby, comes from the first word of the phrase since everything was called football and Brits were too lazy to say Association.

 

[Adamantium93]

Honestly, as an American, I have never understood why we call it football. You only kick the ball a handful of times, the rest is spent running it around or throwing it.

And dont give us that crap about soccer being an insulting word. Britain invented it, not the US, and it was meant to distinguish Association Football from the ten other types being played at the time. Essentially, people did what the OP is doing now and determined that Soccer was the best name.

As for a new name for American Football (not Futbol), I'd be perfectly fine with Gridiron. At least we'd have the coolest name of any sport.

 

[crazygameguy4ever]

it's football.. not futbol... is that even a real word? we have football.. and then we have soccer.. two different things that are named just fine as they are... neither are insulting.. they've both been called that for a really long time.. and even though i don't like most sports outside skateboarding, i'll still defend the names... what name do you want us to change next? skateboarding to board pushing?

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

I don't know? Rugby?

I mean that's technically what it is, right?

I always just call it rugby. Nobody's corrected me so far, but they're welcome to teach me.