The sport compromise

[Professor James]

I propose that we should create a new slang word for association football. Association football is soccer or football. The problem is that if you say football and are talking about association football is that some people might be talking about Australian or north American football. What's wrong with association football is it's too long of a word. I think we should call AF, soc-ball or socball. It's a combination of soccer and football.

 

[Giest4life]

Or we can not compromise and follow the lead of more than 6 billion people in the world and call it "football"?

 

[chowderface]

Yeah, calling our kind of football "football" is kind of dumb anyway. We don't even use our feet. It's more like...boringball.

 

[Professor James]

Or we can not compromise and follow the lead of more than 6 billion people in the world and call it "football"?

Good luck convincing the NFL and all the other sports companies to change their name and start saying another name.

Yeah, calling our kind of football "football" is kind of dumb anyway. We don't even use our feet. It's more like...boringball.

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