It's not Football, it's Soccer

[jpoon]

I has to be named soccer because REAL football has already taken the fake "football" name in America! Yay for circular logic! =D

 

[Crimson King]

I myself call soccer 'Football' instead and call football either 'American football' or 'American rugby.' The main reason being that it really confuses people when some guy from California with an American accent calls them that.

 

[Aesir23]

Personally, I prefer to call it football since that name makes much more sense than it does for a certain American sport. >_> Though, I have to call it Soccer hear in order to prevent confusion.

I suggest that we start calling American football "Handegg"

 

[dex-dex]

It makes more sense to call it football because you use your foot unlike
IN AMERICA!
where they primarily use their hands.
unfortunately i am Canadian and take some of the habits of our partial oppressors.

 

[Milford Cubicle]

I don't care. It's football.

 

[SnipErlite]

.........so?

It's still a stupid name. Football is a far more accurate and just plain better name.

 

[Instinct Blues]

Interesting.

But why is American Football even called Football? The most the foot ever gets involved with the ball is for a kick off.

As well as field goals, punts, and drop kicks. I just have to say the handegg internet meme is really getting old it never really was all that clever. I admit I did chuckle at it the first time I saw but each time I've seen it since then its just gotten old. Also it makes me think that some of the people posting it actually want the name changed to handegg for real. The football barely resembles the shape of an egg first of all and secondly it was styled after rugby football hence why its called football in the first place. Plus I think its justified in being called football due to the fact that the foot actually comes in contact with the ball during some plays. If there was zero contact between the foot and the ball than I could see a reason for changing the name. But since there is you whiny Europeans can get over it.

EDIT: While we're on the subject of sports names how come they don't just call cricket paddleball because thats basically what it is I mean theres not a cricket in sight ridiculous sports name.

 

[Instinct Blues]

Football, soccer, pffft.

Croquet is where it's at.

Indeed croquet is awesome.

 

[TheRightToArmBears]

It's both.

Also

It's boring.

 

[SimpleChimp]

Finally we have the most approriate and favourite argument that we Brits use against Americans and other foreign English speakers; it's our fucking language, we'll speak it however we like.

Which begs the question of; Why you tend to bother us about American English?

American English isn't a language. Thats why. You could call it a dialect, but I wouldn't say so. Our northaners may say things like "t' pit" But all they've done is shorten the word "the" to the first sound.

You've changed spelling, grammar ect, which is more butchering a language than a dilect. again, our slang sounds don't change the way words a spelt. Yours magically does.

Or maybe you guys have always spoke "the queens" where when we separated from your we also separated from your influence.

Look at the dialects in America, they are all different but they share the same qualities of being influenced by America, when separated from a country you also separate from how they speak, given two hundred and fifty years your language will not be the same language because a nations speech grows and develops with the country and the people. Hell Britain used to speak an archaic German.

We grew away from the Queens rule, and the Queens English. We know speak a less pompous and more American version of your Anglo-saxon tongue. Maybe your just upset that the world wants to learn the American tongue more than it was to speak the Queen's haughty speech.

 

[Yosato]

It might've originated from the UK but Americans are still the only people who call it soccer; I've never heard someone call it that in my life except on TV thanks to my being british. So yeah, it's football; the American version of football makes little sense to me since the ball almost never touches the person's feet.

 

[chstens]

One thing, the term soccer may be a british one, but it's short for "Association Football". (Went from Association Football to A-soc to Soccer)

 

[Skeleton Jelly]

Soccer, football, whatever.

I just call it "boring".

 

[Housebroken Lunatic]

Im not british or american, but I for one consider Soccer = football way more than american football is.

In soccer/football you spend most of the time using your feet to kick the ball, whereas in american football the players rarely kick it with their feet at all but spend most of the time picking it up with their hands and tackle eachother. The ball itself in american football isn't even shaped like a ball, but some kind of pseudo-egg.

So the brits win by virtue of common sense.

 

[oooooooooooooooooooooooooo]

Something article fails to mention is that the rest of the English speaking world, other then Australia, refers to the game as football, not soccer.

 

[FactualSquirrel]

So forget that English condescension and carry on calling it soccer, safe in the knowledge that you?re more in tune with the roots of the sport than those mocking Brits.

I'm gonna go with "no" because it was invented by the Greeks, so we condescending Brits are just as in tune.

And who am I to care what the history of a game is, I'm saying soccer is a stupid term, or at least American football is.

Also, almost all American words come from England, seeing as you speak English...

 

[Cheery Lunatic]

Hmmm, I had no idea. I know some Englanders but I'm not about to call them out on this mainly because of how expensive phone calls are from out-of-the-country.

Anyway, I'll still be calling it soccer. Just because of how smug all the Brits on this site are about what they feel is right.

 

[Glademaster_v1legacy]

I call it Soccer depending on who I am talking to as Football in Ireland can usually be referring to Gaelic Football. So whichever word I use suits the person. Same as if I would say Football to the person I would refer to Gaelic Football as Gaelic.