Actually I believe it’s called “Football” because most ball games were originally played on horseback.
Football (Soccer) was one of the first ball games to be played on foot, hence Foot-ball
That’s why Rugby, Canadian Football, Australian Football, and American Football are also types of “Football”.
Also, the name “Soccer” was literally invented in England. It’s short for “Association Football” (Association - Assoc - Soccer) so shut the f*** up
Man, Baseball with horses would be wild.
That’s basically extreme polo isn’t it?
BaseballfootbatIn Australian AFL, otherwise known as Aussie Rules, it’s pretty common to need to jump high enough that you get another person to launch you. Imagine that from horseback! I’d watch.
Blame the British, Oxford specifically, and their penchant to name things ending in -er. They’re the ones that named it, and they hide from that fact now as if they were never a part of it.
https://www.history.com/articles/why-do-some-people-call-it-soccer
Blame the British, Oxford specifically, and their penchant to name things ending in -er
You could call them a tosser for what they’ve done but you’ll be playing right into their hand
Yes it fucking is
Both the American and rest of the world versions of their respective ball games are played on foot, as opposed to polo that is played riding a horse. The latter was originally invented by Ralph Lauren, as commemorated in ubiquitous t-shirts with a gentlemanly collar.
Why do people still wear Lacoste if no one plays gatorball anymore?
Speak for yourself, I’ve been handcrafting the only gatorballs strong enough to survive their bite strength for years!
if it’s called football, then why did YOU name it soccer? seems kind of silly to blame other people for using the name you insisted everyone use.
but that’s like imperial measurements, you insisted everyone use them and then changed your mind down the line and now make fun of us for using the Imperial system that Imperial Britian came up with. you have a nasty habit of blaming everyone else for the problems you create.
British imperial units and US customary units were actually both codified after American independence! Both British imperial and US customary units are derived from earlier English customary units. We made some agreements to harmonise our two systems over time so that we were at least using the same pound and yard, because we weren’t before, but somehow volume units escaped this
Ironically we did sort of hamper your early efforts at metrication completely unintentionally; British pirates (privateers, more accurately) captured the French ship that happened to be carrying standards for the metric system across the Atlantic to you
Either way, Brits definitely shouldn’t make fun of anyone for their system of measurement, because the only thing worse than a non-metric system is using some cursed half-and-half Frankenstein mashup of both metric and non-metric
I’m relatively confident that Lady Butterfly was not involved in either of these things you’re accusing her of.
Now hold on a minute this was all your idea.
I wont hear from the UK about speaking English correctly. You are not serious people.
Precisely. It was called soccer as a joke
soccer is just a shortening of “association football”
“Foot ball” in American English referring to “gridiron football.”
Comepare that to “Gaelic football”, “Australian football” or “Rugby football”.
These are all just different rule sets that have evolved from a common ancestor, they’re all football.
But that ball is not shaped like a foot
Y’all are the ones who came up with the name soccer.
Handball.
Trying to apply logic at Americans. Waste of time. They still use imperial and call their sport football even though it’s without using a foot and ball.
The foot only hits the ‘ball’ for kickoffs and field goals. The rest of the timr its in their hands. Should call it handball. Used to call it pigskin football until they stopped using pig skin to make the weird balls.
Handball is also a different game already.
The arrow is pointing to his shin though?
I barely know her
IDK why we changed it from Gridiron. That shit sounds way cooler.
Frankly, all of the different football games should get a proper name like that. Gridiron and rugby (both union and league) are both great names. You can call them gridiron football or rugby football if you want to be formal. Soccer is basically the same idea, being a shortening of association football. Now we just need counterparts for Australian and Gaelic
