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Concussion-ball has a nice ring to it.
I think people put too much weight on his ramblings. He doesn't actually plan on this. He's just schmoozing.
Finally something we can agree on.
NFL FootBall can be renamed to HandEgg.
I’ve been calling it ‘stupid’ for some time and never really get any cogent pushback. Sports!
National Stupid Football League, or NSFL for short!
Soccer isn't the only football it's in a group of games originally called football which includes rugby. Technically to the rest of the world NFL style football is gridiron football.
Let me interject for a moment
what you're referring to as football is in fact soccer/football, or as i have recently been calling it, soccer + football
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To most of the world football is what is refered to as soccer. Rugby and american football are their own seperate thing as far as I am concerned
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That's the unexpected right thing coming from Trump. Seriously, only Americans call a game played with hands "football" and a game played with feet "soccer." Come on Trump, next fix the measurements so Americans don't measure in pots and pans (or maybe it was cups and spoons) and thumbs and elbows (or maybe it was inches and feet).
The term “soccer” originated in the UK as a shortened slang for “assoc(iation) football”.
The US didn’t come up with that term, like almost everything else, they stole it from someone. Don’t blame the U.S. for the UKs habit of abbreviating stuff.
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it was called soccer before it was called football in England
you will never get Americans to not call the ball a football and a soccer ball
That's not true... Soccer is what some of the english called it and that was an abbreviation of association football. It has always been football and for a short time in one place it was soccer in england and then it was football again everywhere. It came to the US as soccer and never changed. But it was always football.
dude, just look it up
it's fact. the upper class didn't want to play soccer because the lower class were playing it so they called it football
You wanna cite your source? This I can't find anything to support your claim.
https://www.britannica.com/story/why-do-some-people-call-football-soccer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_(word)
The word "soccer" originated as an Oxford "-er" slang abbreviation of "association", and is credited to late nineteenth century English footballer, Charles Wreford-Brown.[8] It has been speculated that both this story and the William Webb Ellis rugby story are apocryphal, however this appears to be a revision of history as the English term "soccer" fell out of favour while England differentiated their language from America's (where the term soccer had become widely used) English in the 20th century due to growing American popularity.[9] "Socker" with a k appeared in print at least as early as 1889.[10] The New York Times, published in 1905: "It was a fad at Oxford and Cambridge to use 'er' at the end of many words, such as foot-er, sport-er, and as Association did not take an 'er' easily, it was, and is, sometimes spoken of as Soccer."[11] There is also the sometimes-heard variation, "soccer football".[12]
Your source says the same thing I said... The word soccer comes from abbreviating "association". As in association football.
Handegg.
Handeggballl.
You have to add "ball" so that we know it is a game played with a ball.
How about "pauseball"? I've rarely seen a more boring "spectacle" than a bunch of roided men in tights smash into each other for 3 seconds then watching fat middle-aged men with oversize headsets chew gum for 10 minutes after.
What about baseball? The pitcher and catcher's goal is throw the ball back and forth 18 times. Everyone else is just there incase they can't manage that.
Where are the Epstein files?
Call it barbarian ball or gladiator ball or battle ball. Any of those would be a better fit.
Game where you don't kick the ball by foot, needs to be called football? It should be hand ball IMO.
Well technically there's is one situation in which someone may kick the ball by foot.
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