Some might. I call the left one Football, the one on the right something that I have absolutely no interest in.
The little that I do know about it, is enough for me to utterly detest it.
It isn't football. It's soccer. Not "It's called soccer by Americans". On an objective, factual level, it is soccer and the one on the right is football.
Since the main object of the game is to kick the ball through the goal post, How about we continue to call it football, and we start calling the other one butthead ball. since that is how they score, and you obviously hate it's current name, soccer.
It would avoid future confusion. It would be best all around.
I was only curious, I don't actually care that much about football or American football. But I just think it makes sense to call the left one football.
"American ball"
That's just completely confusing because there are other sports in America that use balls. How about we stop trying to fix something that isn't broken and just call it whatever other people in your country call it.
The obvious solution is for the rest of the world to get with the times and realize that the one on the left is soccer. It is not and never will be football no matter how insistent they are in persisting with their ignorance.
What is so wrong with calling the left one football?! Some languages don't even have a word for soccer, so that won't work. And why can't both just be called football instead of people telling the others to change their name. (Left) football is a thing, accept it. (Right) football is a thing, accept it. Seriously people stop telling others what to call it, that makes you ignorant.
The earliest documented roots of Football being played is from the third century BCE, in ancient China.
The earliest American hand egg was played was November 6th, 1869.
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You're not just ignorant, but also arrogant and poorly informed. I think that the international community can call it whatever the fuck they want, given that it was in play two millenia before the US was even a nation.
So by your logic we should call anything whatever we like. Let's stop calling chairs 'chairs' and instead call them 'bananas'. And let's call dogs 'blankets'. Do you see what I'm getting at? Language is important. The words that we use are important. It's important that people call soccer by its proper name rather than calling it football because otherwise they're just making a mockery of the language.
But footballs proper name is not soccer. I dok't know where everyone is getting that from. And as you said: language is important and the majority of languages call it "football". Americans can't force us to change the name of our sport, you seriously do not have the rights. If you go anywhere in Europe or other parts of the world we'll call it football. So please stop trying to change something that's not gonna change, it's seriously pointless. Please. Fucking stop. Both names can coexist.
I'm just going to hit eject on this one. If I continue, I'm going to get my soapbox out and feelings are going to get hurt.
I don't want to be that guy, but I can be.
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The left picture is clearly soccer no matter where you are and the one on the right is clearly football. Some people will erroneously claim that the one on the left is football but they will be wrong.
There you go.
*sage nod*
The little that I do know about it, is enough for me to utterly detest it.
You're right, stream. Just let it go or else it'll never end.
It would avoid future confusion. It would be best all around.
That's just completely confusing because there are other sports in America that use balls. How about we stop trying to fix something that isn't broken and just call it whatever other people in your country call it.
The earliest American hand egg was played was November 6th, 1869.
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You're not just ignorant, but also arrogant and poorly informed. I think that the international community can call it whatever the fuck they want, given that it was in play two millenia before the US was even a nation.
I don't want to be that guy, but I can be.
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