Soccer sounds cooler than football. Sounds like uncreative child logic to call it a football, well...I kick it wiff my foot...so Ill call it...football?
Soccer ball sounds as if someones actually givin this thought and taking it seriously.
This.
Here in South Africa if you call the black and white round one a football you instantly win a ticket to one of those game shows that does not allow anyone with an IQ over 85 to enter into. Instantly.
Liverpool Football Club, Arsenal Football Club, Everton Football Club, Accrington Stanley Football Club, Burnley Football Club, The Football Association annnnnnd Union of European Football Associations.......
Go football! And by that I mean the game played almost 'exclusively' with the legs, with the exclusion of arms and hands, no I'm not going to use the 's' word.
The UK has a sport they call football. America has had a completely different sport they call football. Heck, The UK actually has two, since Rugby is just a variety of football as well. Meanwhile Australia has its sport that they call football, and Ireland has a different sport they call football.
Hell, even Canada has its own version of football.
Football is a ridiculous mess, and if you think it's some sort of unforgivable sin to call your version something other than football so as to make it easier to figure out what the hell is even being discussed, I only have one thing to say to you:
Thank you. Thank you for reminding me that as bad as we are, America still isn't full of the most self-centered arrogant bastards on Earth yet. Really. I don't even know if we'll ever be able to compete with you on that front, which is pretty impressive considering how arrogant and self-centered we can be.
I call the black-and-white sphere a soccer ball. I call the egg thing an American football. If someone says "football", I'd think of the black-and-white sphere, but I personally use the terms "soccer" and "American football" to reduce ambiguity.
A FOOTBALL is a football and is used during the game of Football. It was a football first. The brown egg is an 'American Football', and is used during the game of 'Rugby-With-Kevlar'.
Isn't that a nationality thing though? Soccer is football in the uk. So we'd refer to the egg shaped thing as an American football, with the big stitches on it. We have rugby of course, which is somewhat similar but not quite the same.
Let's be honest here. Soccer is football. American Football is football. Rugby Union is football. Rugby League is football. Australian Rules is football. So really, it's kind of a hard thing to define. The only sport that is actually played primarily with the foot is soccer, so by definition it should be football. Then Australian Rules, because from what I've seen, it tends to have a fair amount of kicking action. The others really have no right to be called football.
Last time I checked, the act of conferring kinetic energy to a ball via one's hand is referred to as "throwing". What an astute observation. I believe both an American football as well as a soccer ball are thrown with your hands, as that is the very definition of "throw". How exactly do you throw a soccer ball without your hands? Might you enlighten me on this, since you clearly know more about sports than I?
Jeez people c'mon it aint that hard, also when you invent a sport you get to name it, therefore being American and saying "Ooooh lets call it football!!" just because it's a name for the most popular sport already is no excuse.
Fun fact: The british named the game soccer, they then went on to change the name of the game to football without really telling anybody. Americans did not name it soccer, that was just the game's original name.
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