You know... I really wish we Americans didn't call the sport soccer. You play with soley with your feet and the only person to touch the damn ball is the goalie..
As opposed to "American" football, where it really has nothing to do with the feet. Its a variant of rugby... which is a variant of the "real" football (or soccer, in the states...). "American football" should really be called soccer and soccer should really be called football.
It sickens me just about as much as using the English system for measurements. Base 10 makes so much more sense the inches and feet... ugh.
Call me unpatriotic or whatever the hell else... but maybe I'm just more "patriotic" or "American" by trying to promote the better way.
American's use the term Soccer because what the British call Football is really "Association Football" and Rugby is really "Rugby Football". We just took the "soc" from Association and added an "er" to get Soccer.
The real surprising thing: American Football is actually a variant of Canadian football, which was a variant of Rugby Football. American's originally played Association football, but when our colleges went to play Canadian colleges, they were playing based off of Rugby Football rules. So the American colleges switched rules and thus began the evolution to American Football (which I like to call Handegg).
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mlody11 @ Apr 17th 2009 3:06PM
You know... I really wish we Americans didn't call the sport soccer. You play with soley with your feet and the only person to touch the damn ball is the goalie..
As opposed to "American" football, where it really has nothing to do with the feet. Its a variant of rugby... which is a variant of the "real" football (or soccer, in the states...). "American football" should really be called soccer and soccer should really be called football.
It sickens me just about as much as using the English system for measurements. Base 10 makes so much more sense the inches and feet... ugh.
Call me unpatriotic or whatever the hell else... but maybe I'm just more "patriotic" or "American" by trying to promote the better way.
Ezra @ May 16th 2009 3:21AM
American's use the term Soccer because what the British call Football is really "Association Football" and Rugby is really "Rugby Football". We just took the "soc" from Association and added an "er" to get Soccer.
The real surprising thing: American Football is actually a variant of Canadian football, which was a variant of Rugby Football. American's originally played Association football, but when our colleges went to play Canadian colleges, they were playing based off of Rugby Football rules. So the American colleges switched rules and thus began the evolution to American Football (which I like to call Handegg).
mlody11 @ Apr 17th 2009 3:47PM
lol, handegg! I wonder if the sport would be just as popular if it was called handegg. Monday Night Handegg!