Why football?

[Omega Pirate]

When I wanted to play football with my friends they gave me this misshaped piece of leather, or what ever that thing is made of. It turns out here in America they call football soccer for some unknown reason. I was confused as hell back then... (I refuse to read the wall of text from wiki, I don't have the patience or the will to do so at 1am)

 

[Canid117]

Why do the North Americans call that rugby-knockoff of theirs football?

Listen I am a casual fan of football and I recently started playing Rugby and while they may be similar and have similar origins they have developed in to very different games. Rugby is not a knock off of Football and Football is not a knock off of rugby. They are different sports with different challenges. That said they are both great sports and you should probably just get the hell over it.

 

[Ultra_Caboose]

I really couldn't care less. The only sport I really get any enjoyment out of is hockey (nothing like a sport with fistfights).

What we call a sport doesn't really matter. I might just start calling every sport Calvinball.

 

[Dr. Whiggs]

When someone uses the term 'soccer' in my vicinity, I give them a friendly warning. If there is no betterment, I will get violent about it, and I have in the past. This is probably the only topic to infuriate me to this point.

I'll be damned if some armpitegg fan will trash talk the sport.

And I don't care how the 'british invented the word'. A minority of British people called it that, and it was always at best a secondary term, until armpitegg came along and named their egg carrying abortion 'football'.

I shall now go make a sport that involves bases and a ball and call it baseball since only Cubans play that other one anyway.

Right?

Look out everybody, Metalhandkerchief is going to lay a pasty, dainty smackdown on anyone who calls it soccer! Remember to wear your kneepads, Metal!

 

[Tsaba]

Soccer is the best sport in the world.

Games end in 0-0 ties all the time which is super exciting. Players faking injuries and flopping constantly how sweet is that?

Daniel Tosh on soccer-

oh my God, I can't stop laughing.

EDIT: now that my spleen has stopped hurting, I totally agree on the fake injuries that kills me, I might as well watch All My Circuits or watch paint dry to a wall. It just isn't fun to watch, it seems to me when I did watch it to be ridiculously biased.

 

[Varewulf]

Faking injuries is what I call playing it italian. Since we're already stereotyping like mad here, I can't afford to let go of my lead.

Edit: On the plus side, I got a badge out of this middle-of-the-night crazy rant.

 

[tigermilk]

It would be like if instead of baseball, they had named that game handball, then what the rest of the world calls handball

Baseball... do you mean American rounders

 

[supermariner]

i'm English and i'm really sorry to admit to you fella, that us brits invented the word soccer
it's shorthand for association
i DO prefer calling it football obviously
and i DO resent there being an american game with the same name
but in our respective countries, surely it doesn't matter?
us europeans will never assume we mean american football when we call it simpky 'football'
and the americans keep things easy by calling it soccer
and their right to do that is that they didn't invent the re-branded name for football
we did

 

[tehroc]

I don't care what they call it, Euro football beats American football every day and twice on Sunday. Yep, that's right EVEN SUNDAY.

American football bores me. And I'm an American sports fan.

Yet soccer bores me to death with its lack of score. The only low scoring game I can tolerate is hockey and thats due to refs giving a lot more leeway when it comes to checks (plus the fistfighting).

 

[supermariner]

... like it or not the NFL is the most profitable league in the world.

for America

 

[SimuLord]

I don't care what they call it, Euro football beats American football every day and twice on Sunday. Yep, that's right EVEN SUNDAY.

American football bores me. And I'm an American sports fan.

Yet soccer bores me to death with its lack of score. The only low scoring game I can tolerate is hockey and thats due to refs giving a lot more leeway when it comes to checks (plus the fistfighting).

Focusing on goals is missing the point of watching soccer. The very fact that a goal is so rare makes the buildup that much more thrilling...and the payoff so very sweet.

 

[Eduku]

I don't care what they call it, Euro football beats American football every day and twice on Sunday. Yep, that's right EVEN SUNDAY.

American football bores me. And I'm an American sports fan.

Yet soccer bores me to death with its lack of score. The only low scoring game I can tolerate is hockey and thats due to refs giving a lot more leeway when it comes to checks (plus the fistfighting).

Focusing on goals is missing the point of watching soccer. The very fact that a goal is so rare makes the buildup that much more thrilling...and the payoff so very sweet.

Yeah, I've seen 0-0 matches that have been some of the most exhilarating. Goals aren't everything.

 

[TheRundownRabbit]

It's a cultural difference accept it. Soccer is how i say it. and i will die saying it.

me and you are a lot alike :3......its gettin pretty scary

 

[wera193]

Rugby sucks!!!!!