Poll: Why "soccer?"

[thethingthatlurks]

I don't think you know what projecting means.

*sigh* by claiming the group opposed to your view is only belittling your preferred sport out of some petty self image problem, which is of course not really happening, you've created your very own strawmen, which you can now freely attack.
Please come back when you've graduated middle school, k?

 

[Kair]

It does not really look like an egg. Another name is required.

EDIT: Though handegg is sounding more and more appealing. Temporarily, let's call it handegg.

 

[Najos]

I don't think you know what projecting means.

*sigh* by claiming the group opposed to your view is only belittling your preferred sport out of some petty self image problem, which is of course not really happening, you've created your very own strawmen, which you can now freely attack.
Please come back when you've graduated middle school, k?

Actually, projection is when a person has unacceptable feelings/impulses and attributes them to someone else. I don't think I did that at all. Now, was my argument a straw man? Perhaps, if I were actually arguing anything. I merely stated that the belief that American football is a sport designed for insecure morons is laughable and (jokingly) said that there might be some projection going on.

There's nothing moronic about football. It isn't exactly a game of chess, but a player's ability to learn dozens and dozens of plays, strategies, and different ways to maximize the potential of their body is...well, quite intelligent of them. Sure, they aren't all going to law school or anything, but intelligence isn't always based on formal education. If American football is for morons, why isn't soccer? Why isn't EVERY sport? None of them are really that hard, right? Soccer is a game of triangles. Don't we all know what triangles are by now?

My main point in all of this is that a person who hates football because it is for "morons" is just as bad as a person that hates soccer because it is for "pussies." I realize I put too much time and effort into my response because you obviously don't really want to take this seriously (judging by your middle school comment), but at least now you have an actual argument to deconstruct instead of a one-liner (which was mostly meant for comedy).

Edit: And since you deny the existence of it, here's the quote from earlier that sparked my comment.

MANLYMANBALL! How about that? It's a 'sport' for insecure morons anyway

 

[thethingthatlurks]

I don't think you know what projecting means.

*sigh* by claiming the group opposed to your view is only belittling your preferred sport out of some petty self image problem, which is of course not really happening, you've created your very own strawmen, which you can now freely attack.
Please come back when you've graduated middle school, k?

Actually, projection is when a person has unacceptable feelings/impulses and attributes them to someone else. I don't think I did that at all. Now, was my argument a straw man? Perhaps, if I were actually arguing anything. I merely stated that the belief that American football is a sport designed for insecure morons is laughable and (jokingly) said that there might be some projection going on.

There's nothing moronic about football. It isn't exactly a game of chess, but a player's ability to learn dozens and dozens of plays, strategies, and different ways to maximize the potential of their body is...well, quite intelligent of them. Sure, they aren't all going to law school or anything, but intelligence isn't always based on formal education. If American football is for morons, why isn't soccer? Why isn't EVERY sport? None of them are really that hard, right? Soccer is a game of triangles. Don't we all know what triangles are by now?

My main point in all of this is that a person who hates football because it is for "morons" is just as bad as a person that hates soccer because it is for "pussies." I realize I put too much time and effort into my response because you obviously don't really want to take this seriously (judging by your middle school comment), but at least now you have an actual argument to deconstruct instead of a one-liner (which was mostly meant for comedy).

Edit: And since you deny the existence of it, here's the quote from earlier that sparked my comment.

MANLYMANBALL! How about that? It's a 'sport' for insecure morons anyway

*headdesk* sorry, should have figured it was sarcasm. My mistake, please accept my apologies, etc...

to be honest, I didn't even see that quote earlier. Guess there's always somebody who takes things too seriously >>

 

[Najos]

No worries. I probably took things a little too seriously in my response. I could've just said I was being sarcastic...

 

[BlumiereBleck]

I've come across much discussion on this in various threads, so I thought we should make this a poll. Why is American Football, which involves neither a ball or feet (most of the time anyway) called Football, while real Football, a game in which players handle a ball with their feet, called Soccer?
So, fellow escapists/football fans, should the name of American Football be changed to something more accurate, like Handegg?

PS: Go Germany, that was an AWESOME game!

It's our name and the world should stay out of it. If we call it soccer thats our name not yours, you can call it the hexagon sphere if you want and guess what. America won't try to change your name.

 

[Eggsnham]

Handegg.. YES!

 

[Highlandheadbanger]

You bloody change it to Football like it should be and change the American sport to something with a more fitting name. They barely use their feet on the ball anyways. When Texas oil-drillers making changes to the rules of cricket created basesball, they didn't call it cricket or American cricket, they created an entirely different name and identity for an entirely different game.

So it should be for a game based off rugby, but barely similar to rugby or football, which has been named such since at least the Medieval Period (documentation-wise).

 

[SupabadMan]

I think I heard somewhere that 'soccer' was slang for football in Europe, but then the Americans adopted it, and naturally, the Europeans then condemned it.

 

[LarenzoAOG]

American Football should be renamed "***** Rugby"

 

[RhombusHatesYou]

Pffft... only 2 sports arguing over the name? Australia has 3 major sports all laying claim to the name: Football/Soccer, Football/Rugby League and Football/Australian Rules. Rugby Union has pretty much given up on the term and the Gaelic Football players just do their own thing, don't give a fuck what other people say and hope they're not forced to practice too close to the hurling term.

Now, when discussion between codes is calm, it's 'Soccer', 'League' and 'Aussie Rules'... when it's less calm it's 'Wogball'/'Poofterball', 'Bum Sniffing' and 'Aerial Ping Pong'/'GayFL'. When a majority of the people in a discussion follow one code that code becomes 'football' by default and any dissenters can fucking suffer.

See, if Australians can figure a way around this mess then maybe other supposedly more advanced nations can also manage it.

BTW, best sport ever is dwarf throwing.

 

[DarthFennec]

I like American Rugby. That's closer.

 

[Cody211282]

Football is the manlier of the two sports so soccer gets stuck as soccer.

 

[Anti-gravity]

I think it should just be switched like soccer called football...american football called soccer

You though of that too? *high five*

yeah! You and me solvin' crimes and makin' up rhymes!