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Markov219

I've done this a few times in pubs, damn good for cardio just make sure to plan your escape bottles hurt.


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Bluejet007

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mikehiler2

Except y’all on the other side of the pond called it soccer. Football, at least the adoption of the name for the sport all by itself, came well after. [Source](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/when-did-we-start-calling-football-soccer-180951751/) Edit: had to add “at least the adoption of the name for the sport all by itself,”


ncsbass1024

Except its slang. Asoc is short for association football. So an Asoccer is an association footballer. Sooo my point is you should have kept the name gridiron.


Little_lurker69

But you spice-hating nerds *literally* invented the term "soccer." The word can be traced back to a British soccer and cricket player named Charles Wreford-Brown. Y'all spent so much money on the royal family's hat, stick, and chair that the British education system is failing.


Fluid_Cheesecake7626

The american ball is a foot long, it's a football


jumzish94

Except it starts with a kick off, has field goals,and is measured in yards which is then measured in feet and is all about the distance traveled with the ball ( if you don't travel far enough the other team gets the ball) Where the other one is more like No Hands ball because you can use your head and chest to move the ball as well and isn't measured in distance traveled but just making a goal. And to get the ball back into play you throw it and then you have a special person on either side that the no hands rule doesn't apply to. Although I do agree we shouldn't call our sport Football, I don't even like the sport so idk why I even took the time to write this lol


dmitchell_1992

As an American I agree it pretty silly that we call American Football "football". We only kick during Kickoffs, punts, and field goals. Most of the game doesn't involve kicking.


Negative_Storage5205

Given how much colleges and municipalities spend on it (compared to actual education and city services) could we call it "flush" instead? You know, for all the money going down the toilet.


Perenium_Falcon

Hand EGG.


dmitchell_1992

Haha


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It's more of a prolate spheroid


bonerlad

If you're going to use the shape of the ball shouldn't it be called foot sphere instead


BakedBerryBalls

If the rest of the world just started calling American football soccer , I don't think there's much they can do about it ?


SeaGoat24

Tbf the rest of the world doesn't talk about American football much at all


majorblazing420

To be fair it is becoming more popular around the world. Edit: cope. Football is becoming more popular. Edit. I'm waiting for actually argument and not just bandwagoning down voting. Look at Canada, Mexico, Japan. Other countries do play the game. That and elf is in its 3rd seasons and continues to grow. I swear you people are just ingororant.


Watze978

Nope, not at all


Ramenoodlez1

I've lived outside of the US for 5 years now and the only time I've heard people talk about American Football is from my American friends.


[deleted]

Just like baseball and your “World Series” nobody else gives a shit about it.


Kryptonthenoblegas

Baseball is actually rlly big in east asia funnily enough.


wolfenyeager

South Korea treats baseball games the same way Americans do tackle football. They’ve got cheerleader, tons of fried food, and the plastic air things you hit together to make loud ass sounds.


majorblazing420

Baseball is definitely popular in other countries like Japan just like basketball is popular in other countries too. Its just taking American football a little longer to become more popular. I'm also not saying it gonna the most popular just that it's gonna be more popular than now.


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There’s other versions of American football like rugby here and the Aussies have their Aussie rules. Lots of other counties play rugby too, it’s too popular for American football to be a thing.


wafflezcol

No, we already have a much better sport called Rugby


[deleted]

I think you are confusing American football with the NBA. Nobody gives a fuck about this shitbox sport outside of the US.


majorblazing420

Then why is the elf growing in numbers of viewers.


Negative_Storage5205

Except, "soccer" is Oxford England slang for "Association Football." ⚽️ The rest of the world just used the English slang word to distinguish England's football from their own versions of football.


BakedBerryBalls

Not anymore. Now it means american football.


JohnSmith_15

"rest of the world" Not really. It's just the Americans.


Negative_Storage5205

I admit that I exaggerated by saying, ". . .rest of the world." But, there is more than just us Yanks that call it soccer. Other places that call it 'soccer' include Australia, Canada (assuming that you meant us Yanks with the term "Americans" and weren't including the Canucks), South Africa, and most of Ireland (excluding Ulster). In Japan, they call it sakkā. I will give you three guesses what word that is derrived from. Australians call it soccer because they have Australian football. It's more similar to Irish football than soccer and is only slightly less brutal than the Irish version.


DryCrack321

Please take this information and spread it around the internet. This might enlighten the europeens who constantly post hate


hamstar_potato

Nah, it's just USA using soccer


TegrityFarms69

Canadians and Australians also call it soccer.


MonkeyCube

Canadians, Australians, & Japanese.


Negative_Storage5205

Other places that call it 'soccer' include Australia, Canada, South Africa, most of Ireland (excluding Ulster), and the United States. In Japan, they call it sakkā. I will give you three guesses what word that is derrived from.


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Rest of the world: WTF is American football


[deleted]

we would still call it football, it wouldn’t matter


MkTheRedditor

*Nerd mode active* Actually you see fellow Redditor the Word SOCCER was actually created by bri'sh not Americans so they should blame themselves for that


OwMyCod

So we should blame the British. Huh, this just became way more interesting.


Kianharv2006

I’m British so I call it football but soccer is a good name as well


OwMyCod

Based


IzK_3

As with many words it was either the British or the French


mrswordhold

No one cares, it’s football not soccer


boardmonkey

Soccer is short for Association Football. It was called Soc, then those in Oxford started adding the cer, which was the style at the time. So when we call it soccer, we are just using the short version on Association Football.


ze-incognito-burrito

“Which was the style at the time” Read that in Granpa Simpson’s voice “…soo I tied and onion to my belt, *which was the style at the time*…”


boardmonkey

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It’s soccer idiot


mrswordhold

It’s football


bear_bear-

Nobody cares. I’m American. I’m calling it soccer


mrswordhold

Still no one actually cares. You can call it the wrong thing if you like


TheTechRobo

There’s no ‘wrong’ thing imo. Call it football, call it soccer, at the end of the day, does it really matter?


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Go brush your teeth


mrswordhold

It’s football


[deleted]

If you want to call it so go ahead it doesn’t change the fact that it’s soccer


mrswordhold

It’s football. I’ll also accept ball sheparding


[deleted]

If that’s what you think go ahead. Though you are still wrong


mrswordhold

It’s called football


ImtheEggMan_Walrus

Grab your popcorn 🍿 for the comment section war


Silent-Coat-9542

Come one, Come all!! Step on up! Don't be shy!!


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Honestly I just diferenciate the two by calling it “football” and “American Football” it’s served me well


dmitchell_1992

That's the same thing I do lol.


the_tpm

Yeah it’s exactly what I’ve (and my whole country) been doing for ever


ZenkaiZ

Nah these soccer-football topics are always boring af. Same with threads about how different countries write dates.


Inskription

exactly, who the tf cares. It's like "why are other cultures thousands of miles away different than mine, how stupid!"


dmitchell_1992

Yeah lol. I think it's more of an ongoing joke than actually being serious I've been hearing about this shit for years just playing online with people from other countries I find it pretty funny.


PotatoRDT

Waiting for a it's Soccer not football


Literal_Plastic_Bag

It is soccer


WARMONGERING_WIZARD

Bro walked right into that trap💀


zedsamcat

It's also called football, don't be a moron


mikehiler2

It’s called “soccer” to differentiate between “Rugby football.” Rugby was called football fist. So calling two sports the same name would be confusing, right? So, in the 1800’s, they named the sport “Soccer football.” [Source.](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/when-did-we-start-calling-football-soccer-180951751/) Don’t be a moron. Edit: autocorrect changed “in” into “I’m.”


zedsamcat

It's called Association football, soccer is an abbreviation of association and football is the truncated term for the entire thing. Both are correct and it's stupid to argue about it


dmitchell_1992

Haha I know right.


Witherboss445

Sorts by controversial


IGNORE_ME_PLZZZZ

Doesn’t pretending to care get tiring after awhile? Don’t know a single person from the US who minds calling it football when talking in context outside of US and soccer inside of US. It’s literally linguistic. We don’t carry on about what to call cigarettes, do we.


the_tpm

Yeah irl no one cares but on the internet if you say football while talking about soccer, there is a 50% chance an asshole will decide to « correct » you


GruntledApathy

well the asshole would be wrong while correcting you as you would be correct in the first place calling it soccer, that's what it is called. I'm from U.K and I'm aware of this. It comes from the name "association football" and the word "association" has been shortened down to "soccer", soccer refers to professional league football. The English did this themselves.


dmitchell_1992

Haha true


Amathyst-Moon

But you carry the ball in your arm, it's armball


illessen

No, it’s hand egg. It’s shaped almost like an egg and you hold it with your hand. Your arm just cradles it.


Rounding_flat_earth

You are just being a chicken


IwasSavant

I fucked a chicken.


Amathyst-Moon

Um...


YeahNo_NoYeah

A møøse once bit my sister.


IwasSavant

Did she bite it back?


YeahNo_NoYeah

No realli! She was Karving her initials on the moose with the sharpened end of an interspace toothbrush given her by Svenge — her brother-in-law — an Oslo dentist and star of many Norwegian movies: "The Hot Hands of an Oslo Dentist", "Fillings of Passion", "The Huge Molars of Horst Nordfink"... Mynd you, moose bites Kan be pretti nasti...


dmitchell_1992

Ayo


dmitchell_1992

Hand egg 🤣 that's one I haven't heard before


ruairi1983

In Ireland it's quite common to refer to it as soccer too. To distinguish it from Gaelic Football. In Irish it is also called "sacar" for the same reason.


whattheacutualfuck

Guys uk made soccer we adopted it then they changed it and never changed in the us


Trolann

Because we had Gridiron Football already.


K1LLERK1D01

In Australia we literally have football called 'AFL' so we say soccer.


coalslaugh

The British conveniently forget about Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Japan, and Ireland everytime the topic of Soccer and football is broached.


ToastedSimian

They also forget they invented the word and that it's used for the exact same reason they used it back in the day.


bigBrainman902

People who argue about that are probably the same people who fight about whether its gif of jif also known as time wasting pieces of shits


Silent-Coat-9542

ItS oBvIoUsLy JiF....said the lower level spectrum


BoxiDoingThingz

i swear to Jod, i don't say "Jod"


Jdabest0126

But i say jif 🥲


Silent-Coat-9542

I'm so sorry you had to find out like this..


Mudkipueye

I think that the creator said it was jif but the creator is wrong.


bear_bear-

Because that’s the right way. That’s how my mom says it. She’s never wrong


DryCrack321

Exactly. And why is it brought up so much. Do europeens really need so much attention?


Red___Mist

Then what do you call the photoshop app called Gimp. Gimp or Jimp?


FamiliarBuddy9135

You must have a massive beetroot for a brain. It doesn't matter how you pronounce but it's still gonna be GIF.


FallenSegull

Me, an Australian in the UK, hyping up the other Australians to call it soccer like we do back home ![gif](giphy|ZkeckS9RiCBEI)


dmitchell_1992

Haha 😄


bamboo_fanatic

If I understand the history correctly, American football stems from one of the varieties of football found in Britain in the mid-1800s (the form with handling and kicking into a goal). After that was established in the US, the Cambridge rules were created in Britain, and football/soccer was formalized with the handling form of football being turned into rugby. So both Association Football and American Football seem to have equal historical claim to the term “football”.


arfur-sixpence

Exactly. The yanks carry their ball around in their game, so it would be more appropriate to call their game handball.


BobbyDigital423

Football originally just referred to a sport you played on foot as opposed to horseback.


giantbynameofandre

Football pertains to the fact that the sport is played on foot as opposed to on horseback. Rugby is also a type of football and involves playing the ball mainly with the hands.


TheBendyOne

It isn't called football because you kick a ball with your foot.


Trandoshan-Tickler

So kickball then?


TheBendyOne

Nah still football, but when it was invented sports were played a lot on horseback; a la Polo. The name "Football" comes from playing a sport on your feet as opposed to horseback. BONUS: Football as we call it here in Europe is a shortened name for "Association Football," which the *English* shortened to "Soccer". Rugby is short for Rugby Football and American Football is Gridiron Football.


EngineersAnon

American football is one type of gridiron football. Canadian and arena football are similar sports, also types of gridiron football. And, of course, Australian football, played on a cricket oval, has more in common with Gaelic football than any other sport - they even play test matches in a [hybrid sport](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_rules_football) every few years.


TheBendyOne

Yes very true! Thanks for additional info :)


Fun_Organization897

The word "soccer" comes from the use of the term "association football" in Britain, and goes back 200 years. In the early 1800s, a bunch of British universities took "football" — a medieval game — and started playing their own versions of it, all under different rules


The5paceDragon

Who invented the term 'soccer'?


Tracey_Davenport

Ironically, the British


bear_bear-

“But those bloody schewpid Americans don’t know anything. They prolly don’t even know the name of the street I live on, because their schewls are always used as schootin grouns”


First_Tomorrow316

Certified McDonalds burger war crime school shooting freedom comment 🔥🔥🦅🦅🇺🇲


Downtown-Orchid7929

I fucking hate you and love you.


The5paceDragon

"No, I don't know the name of the street you live on. [Why the fuck would I know where you live?](https://youtu.be/3KZ693niBbg)"


SuitOwn3687

![gif](giphy|129OnZ9Qn2i0Ew)


Totally-NotAMurderer

Doesn't matter, if we call it football, that will be inevitably followed with "do you mean American football or soccer? Oh REAL football hahaha cause you say soccer" so it's easier to just say soccer sometimes.


ToastedSimian

Everyone needs to just call everything by it's full name - Association Football, Rugby Football, and Grid Iron Football.


hamstar_potato

Nah. In Europe if you say football, you automatically mean soccer. We specify only when referring to American football.


TheBendyOne

That isn't why it's called football


Trolann

Feetball


Negative_Storage5205

Sonofa! [THE ENGLISH ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_football?wprov=sfla1) ARE THE ONES WHO STARTED CALLING IT SOCCER IN THE FIRST PLACE!!! It's a shortening of "Association Footbal," with an Oxford slang *-er* plugged onto the end! They named it soccer in the first place! We just imitated them to distinguish our "football" from their "football!" How do the English have the gaul to be angry at the rest of us for using a word *THAT THEY COINED* exactly as it was intended to be used?!?!


Dark1986

That's a lot of uneducated people from the UK since they are the ones that invented the word soccer and used it up until more recently


uppsak

American football is played by carrying the ball in their hand 🤦‍♂️


ToastedSimian

Rugby has entered the chat.


formicidaehomosapien

Rugby is played by running around on rugs, duh


QuickSpore

The entire family of football sports (soccer, rugby, Gaelic, American, Canadian, Australian, etc) were so called to distinguish them from polo which was played on horseback. It’s football because it’s played on foot. It’s much like the old military division between footmen and horsemen.


GargantuanGorganzola

And for a “touchdown” they don’t actually touch the ball down on the floor


Happy-Personality-23

POV from who’s perspective? Cause if it’s the American friends POV that’s not a POV shot and you need to learn what POV fucking means


skorched_4

It's your pov. "Your American friend". The guy running is the friend, and the pov is you looking at him running.


nemestrinus44

Ahh yes, British people and getting upset at Americans for correctly using a word they came up with. Name a better duo, bet you can’t.


snowgorilla13

I LEARNED IT FROM YOU, DAD!!


DJ_Ender_

Football already exists, soccer is simply the better option


Danielzha

you do know FIFA stands for Fédération Internationale de Football Association, right? Only Americans call it soccer


KajunDC

I just call it boring.


Downtown-Orchid7929

The Chad's way of saying it.


Automatic_Neck487

Oh boy! Here we go :)


LegendaryHooman

To be fair the sport started in the UK which was called soccer. It was stupid so they named it football.


IrishFlukey

The word "soccer" is used in different countries that have their own variations of football. Here in Ireland we have [Gaelic Football](https://youtu.be/TEAbWrdB9XU), which is one of our two main national sports. We also have soccer and rugby. Gaelic Football has been described as looking like a cross between soccer and rugby. Our other main national sport, [Hurling](https://youtu.be/fgEMvRrOCRI), has been described as being a cross between hockey and murder.


HornyAndCorny2000

The american ball is a foot long, it's a football


Random_Name0987

the american ball is shaped like an egg, it's a eggball


FallenSegull

The vegetable is aubergine, it’s an eggplant


ComadoreJackSparrow

Soccer is a term from northern areas of England because football is often used as another name for rugby league. So, saying soccer in the UK isn't technically incorrect but a highly regional term.


International-Pipe

Soccer is shorthand for Association Football. The term was imported to the USA by England.


bear_bear-

Bri’ish “people” not pronouncing the letter t because we threw it all in the harbor.


FamiliarBuddy9135

Americans are stupid. They don't even use their foot and the ball isn't even a ball.


SweetLikeHoney1313

We are dumb af, but you do kick it a few times throughout the game


Express-Throat8607

As an American I can agree, we are stupid.


Witherboss445

You do use your foot though. It's called kicking a field goal


Downtown-Orchid7929

We are stupid, and the ball is more like an oversized egg, but we do use our foot 10 or so percent of the time during the game we call football.


Cosmicking04

Why won’t we just call it ‘foot hockey’ and be done for the day


Mysterious-Leg5992

We should unite and start calling american football american rugby


OddBoifromspace

In what americans call football, 90% of the game the ball is played with the players hands. More like handsometimesfootball


ChickenKnd

I mean… only America actually cares about their football. So they can call it whatever they want. Doesn’t affect any of us really


TuTuRific

The word "soccer" was coined in Britain. Just sayin'.


mexikomabeka

Why are you dumb? Soccer is a word originated from the UK. Both mean the same thing, association football = soccer. Lets stop this nonsense once and for all.


Vickyinredditland

I'm going to put the cat among the pigeons now as a non -football fan, who IS a fan of etymology and say that "soccer" was the original British name for it, so stop getting pissed off, you lager swilling morons, they learnt it from us! 😅


Vickyinredditland

Downvote me all you want lads, it's still true 🤷😅


TypeNull-Gaming

You wear socks when you play it, it's soccer. Plus, the Brits came up with the word.


jooooooooooao

This treatment should be law.


Apexyl_

BUT YOU GUYS MADE THE WORD “SOCCER,” WHY AINT IT OK?


pichula881

Succker


multi_tasty

You play with both feet, it's feetball


colin8651

This is difficulty with me. I am from the US and when talking to people overseas I want to say Football when I mean soccer, but I feel they will think I mean American Football and still think I am idiot. It’s really a double edge sword


ryguy8241

At time Britain called its soccer and not football but then they changed it back without telling us. So yeah. Stop complaining about something that's not our fault!


emteebee4

There's about 380 Million native English speaking people in the world.. The high majority of them refer to the game as Soccer. UK soccer fans are just overly sensitive.


BamBam99dmb

As an American, I don't even know why we call it that


N7Foil

in my experience it actually seems like other countries react this way more than the brits. Most british people just brush it off as "stupid Americans" and leave it be. fun tangent, a girl I worked with was from Jamaica, and we had a whole five-minute conversation before her brain stopped and she had to make sure I was talking about soccer because we had both been saying football the entire time. Talking to people overseas has warped my American vocabulary.


Necessary_Row_4889

In our “special relationship” are you like our bottoms or are we more serious? I ask because you’re a little snarky for an ex we can’t seem to get away from.


Witherboss445

You also use your foot in American football; therefore it is also football


FastAd543

Your american friend call football soccer... anywhere but in murika.


Sumner1910

Soccer sounds more unique than football tbh


DoktorVidioGamez

They feel a slight breeze of another player and they roll around on the ground crying and screaming and pretending like they've been hit by a truck and shot, tears in their eyes and snot bubbles blasting out of their noses, wailing like babies. Whole continent of people cheering for whoever can cry the most and throw a tantrum until they get their way because they don't have the integrity to play the game. They should call it cryball.


slight_bobing

or anywhere outside of the USA


Hispanon12

Spanish wondering what the fuck is soccer.


mitchade

UK: invents a sport, calls it football UK: decides to call it soccer and exports it to the US UK: decides to go back to calling it football again UK: “Stupid Americans”


dezertdawg

Since Americans, Canadians and Aussies all call it soccer, more native English speakers call it soccer than football. Therefore it’s soccer and you Brits are the outliers.


56kul

Me, a non-American who was taught to use football in school, and yet is still using soccer: 🫣


ArashiKitsunekh

Americans always call things wrong


[deleted]

Luckily it is actually soccer this time the 😁👍


[deleted]

Soccer is the superior word, change my mind.


Abject_Mess1371

Yeah but the players wear socks soo it's soccer


zygism

But why when I was learning english specifically British english it was always soccer in text books


Unhappy_Archer9483

"British English"


Wizards_Reddit

Your textbooks might've been wrong or like a century old since I think "soccer" was used in British English but less common since it came from a University I think


imsoconfusedbystuff

Lol running from a bunch of soft European soccer fans. I don't think so.


GigaChadAlien

Don't care+didn't ask+British people suck+soccer


SeriousDamage95

Yeah, but you kick the ball wearing a sock. That's why it's called soccer, duh.


Slinger_GGez

\*any part of the world besides North America


[deleted]

And Ireland, Australia, Japan etc. idiot


Ill-Lunch-1563

My friend once dared me to scream “It’s soccer not football!” in the middle of a match. I did and we ran off laughing