Why Oh Why?

From an American,

I wholeheartedly agree.

I still have no idea why American Football is called football. The ball is touched with a FOOT maybe 10-15 times during the 3.5 hours the game is played.

 

Not this crap again.

I hate having to teach the history of the English language to someone who in all likelihood is pretending to be English.

The term "Soccer" was first used in England, by English people.

The US is not the only country where "football" doesn't mean, to most of its citizens, first and foremost Association Football. So go bother Australians and certain parts of Ireland, too. And the South Africans could probably use your services too, especially old-guard whites.

And if your quest for purity is going to be pure, get on the Italians for calling it "Calcio."

 

I think we should start a huge thread on it. It's never been discussed much on these boards.

 

yeah, I've often wondered why it hasn't been discussed more. Perhaps toon_toon could ask the Americans that on the MLS boards, and perhaps suggest they adopt relegation and promotion too, as well as asking them why don't they stop having those stupid nicknames for their teams.

 

Didn't World War 2 start over this?

 

I'd also like to know if Maradona is better than Pele or vice versa.

 

And Italy really deserved to win their match against South Korea at last year's WC, didn't they?

 

"I'd also like to know if Maradona is better than Pele or vice versa."

I would have to say Maradona

 

how many times is this going to come up?

 

don't ask why i'm responding but here i go.

Football in america is called football because it is a different form of football from soccer. When it first started off their were to original forms of football, soccer and rugby. Hence the reason they are called rugby football clubs. Well obviously american football has its roots in rugby, and since that was the first form of "football" to catch on in the states, the name stuck, and soccer stuck with the other form of football. And anyways, if you look back to the early 1900's, american football was actually called gridiron football, which was a way to separate the two, untill soccer eventually fell out of teh mainstream thought. Well thats all for today, hope you all enjoyed.

 

Take the stick out of your limey A$$ and we'll call it whatever you like. We threw you off our continent 200 some years ago so we could do things our own way.....what makes you think we want to stop now?

I'm serious here too, you all need to back on off, we conform to only ourselves........ and frankly we like it that way.

 

Oh by the way....one world government ideas suck!

 

I guess it depends on where you come from. In Australia, we have our own version of football called Australian Rules so most people here call the world game soccer. In fact, our national league here is even called the NSL. (National Soccer League)

 

Exactly.
Different nations have their own opinion on the name of 'The World Game'.

Australia is huge on their Aussie Rules Football, however, we call it 'Footy'.

I would think a very high percentage of the World know The World Game as Soccer.

 

toon-toon, what is your native language, hopefully you will not say english, for their are many errors, and it would look terribly bad on your school system to continue to write in such a manner. I know, silly americans and our nicknames, heaven forbid a team was ever called the magpies or something silly like that.

 

Toon Toon...

Just worry about more important things.

Cell phone-mobile
sneakers-trainers
TV-telly
vacation-holiday
soccer-football

you know exactly what we mean, we know what you mean. Let it go.

 

Now that we're on the subjects, why don't we cap Michael Ricketts and start promotion / relegation in MLS?

 

Funny that, we used to call you lot the skunks.

We could also start a thread on this.
We could also have the "I'm a better supporter than you because i've been to more games" thread.

Are you Chinese?

 

Dear Lord Cornwallis,

We're calling it "soccer."

Sincerely,
George Washington

 

Holy crap you are really dim...

 

Since the moderator...... Hi Andy, warned me to watch it on the brit bashing, all I'll say is this:
Beat us at a fight and you can make us call it whatever you want, but until we stop winning all hte wars around here, how about you just let us call it whatever funny little name we like. Is that soooooooo BAD?

 

Or "drop it" depending on where you come from of course!!