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I like the idea of calling American football “handegg”.
Gridiron. There’s also Rugby, Australian rules, and Canadian Rules Football. Most of the world plays association football.
Also international rules football, which is technically international but only between Ireland and Australia
There is also Gaelic football
100% better
the CTE game
CTE?
Sounds like “Capture The Egg™”
brilliant
kind of the ultimate prize of American football https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_NFL_players_with_chronic_traumatic_encephalopathy
It’s because soccer is more of a southern English slang for football so it was never in parlance across the country (the UK never “switched” from soccer to football).
There are many games of football: rugby league, rugby union, association football etc.
Association, contracted to assoc / soc.
And around Oxford, people like to add ‘-er’ to things. Rugby = rugger. Association football = soccer. Freshman = fresher.
There’s no denying the UK has a bias in the media and literature, especially in the past, to southerners. Thus soccer became quite common in writing and thus exported widely across the world.
But when many of the best football teams in the UK are northern, it’s understandable that the posh southern slang for the game was never widely regarded and remains ridiculed to this day.
posh southern slang
Worth putting the posh part in the first line too, definitely a very public school thing to call it soccer.
And for any confused non-brits reading, “public” schools are private schools. We named them wrong for a joke.
lol that just sounds like capitalism in the US where “freedom to choose internet” bill is actually freedom for a private corporation to choose where they have monopolies and therefore they get to choose where they sell their internet
A public school in England and Wales is a type of fee-charging private school originally for older boys. The schools are “public” from a historical schooling context in the sense of being open to pupils irrespective of locality, denomination or paternal trade or profession or family affiliation with governing or military service, and also not being run for the profit of a private owner.
That’s very interesting, thanks for explaining
“public” schools are private schools
Despite having invented the English language, you Brits are really bad at it
Public schools may be private schools, but they ate the poshest and ponciest private schools, even if you have the money to afford them you can’t get in without the right connections.
Soccer? Football? What does–
Oh! You mean fútbol!
Flip-floppy ball.
Lawn foosball
Because you kick the bol with your fút
tfw americans call kicky dicky orby runny “soccer”
Looks like it’s lupis this time
Well, in fairness, the rest of us non-native English speakers also make fun of “soccer” and we don’t particularly care where the soccerers in question are from.
From that point of view, and it sure is a certain point of view, the Brits just figured out the rest of us were mocking you faster. This, I imagine, is also why they started getting into the metric system at some point.
Colo(u)r me surprised.
Shockingly, nations aren’t monoliths.
Football was the name the players used.
Soccer was the name used by people looking down on them and legislating against them.
And then we exported “sakkaa” to Japan, but don’t worry Japan we won’t abandon you like the English and hop on the “football” bandwagon.
Who’s more foolish, the fool or the fool who follows him?
Same goes for calling the season “Fall”.
What about spring?
Let’s genuinely fix the seasons: spring, bloom, fall, decay.
There we go.
Yes, Brits love to shit on ‘Fall’ but not only did they come up with it, they still use it’s complimentary season, ‘Spring’. Those are both short for ‘the fall of the leaf’ and ‘the spring of the leaf’. They switched exclusively to Autumn because they fucking love pretending they speak French, but for some reason never did the same with Spring
Imagine if the us switched to calling soccer football. What would the us call American football then? It would be weird to call it American football in America
Gridiron it’s a much cooler name anyway
Rugby for cowards
Call it handegg
But then what would they call rugby which is also played with a prolate spheroid called a “ball” which can be carried in the hand or kicked?
Canadian and American football are descendants of rugby.
probably just keep calling it rugby
But America also has rugby leagues. Rugby is not a foreign concept to most Americans.
If you hate the word handegg, then maybe call it American Rugby, instead of American Football
But we don’t call it American football. We just call it football.
American Football is already taken anyway, great band.
Handball
Handball is already a sport, albeit more an “in the park with your friends” kind of thing than “arenas and shit lol.”
No, handball is an actual sport: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handball
American gridiron football.
Helmet ball
Helmet handball.
Gridiron football
Pitch football
Hot Potato.
Soccer is just short for as_soc_iation football, so we kind of also call it football.
Football just means you play on your feet (not on horse) that’s why most sports are {name} football
This behavior hardly seems cricket.
It’s so sad that this is your life
Sounds like something a red coat would say
God save the king eh chap?
At least ours has more class than your new one. 😉
Well I won’t fight you on that one my dude haha
What?
Troll account. Ignore.
That’s truly offensive
Duly noted!
