Would be cool if i knew how to make links :saddowns:
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[quote]JOHANNESBURG – No matter how much the United States continues to emerge as a competitive World Cup nation, there is little doubt that the international perception of American soccer will always be doused with suspicion.
The roots of calling the beautiful game "soccer" started in a surprising place.
Why? Because Americans don’t even call the sport by its proper name, of course. They don’t call it “football.” They call it “soccer.”
In the USA, football is that game that dominates winter Sundays and features Lycra, helmets and men so large they should come with their own zip code.
Elsewhere, football is football. The round-ball sport, the beautiful game, with its biggest prize to be handed out here on July 11.
Soccer? Pah, a silly American term created by a nation that has its own national obsession.
No country has been snootier toward the USA’s use of the term “soccer” than England. Before the Group C opener between the two sides in Rustenburg, the Sun newspaper even ran a spoof front page urging Fabio Capello’s side to win the “soccerball world series.”
But let’s take a halftime break here.
Coupled with their team’s humiliating exit from the World Cup it might be another rude awakening to the Brits that soccer isn’t an American term, it is actually an English one. And it isn’t some modern fad that shows disrespect to the world’s most popular sport, it dates back to the earliest days of the game’s professional history.
Indeed, until the last few decades, even Englishmen would routinely refer to their favorite pastime as soccer, just as often as they would say football.
Clive Toye, an Englishman who moved to the U.S. and became known as the father of modern American soccer, bringing Brazilian legend Pele to play for the New York Cosmos, takes up the story.
“Soccer is a synonym for football,” said Toye, who helped launch the North American Soccer League in the late 1960s. “And it has been used as such for more years than I can count. When I was a kid in England and grabbed a ball to go out and play … I would just as easily have said: ‘Let’s have a game of soccer’ as I would use the word ‘football’ instead. And I didn’t start it.”
To trace the origin of “soccer” we must go all the way back to 1863, and a meeting of gentlemen at a London pub, who congregated with the purpose of standardizing the rules of “football,” which was in its infant years as an organized sport but was growing rapidly in popularity.
Those assembled became the founding members of the Football Association (which still oversees the game in England to this day). And they decided to call their code Association Football, to differentiate it from Rugby Football.
A quirk of British culture is the permanent need to familiarize names by shortening them. “My friend Brian Johnston was Johnners,” said Toye. “They took the third, fourth and fifth letters of Association and called it SOCcer. So there you are.”
So forget that English condescension and carry on calling it soccer, safe in the knowledge that you’re more in tune with the roots of the sport than those mocking Brits.[/quote]
Hey we were doing it right.
No it's because they beat their wives when they came home from playing it and said ''I socked 'er!'' or ''Sock 'er!'' :pseudo:
Rugby players rip the shit out of American footballers tbh pussy padding
I'm American but soccer is an odd word for it, I call it football most of the time anyway.
I'm just going to keep calling it football.
Now to the important question, why do they call football for football when you run with the ball in you hands.
also.
inb4 armegg
[QUOTE=iusehax;23041359]Rugby players rip the shit out of American footballers tbh pussy padding[/QUOTE]
And the shitstorm starts:
now.
Because football was taken.
I'm still calling it "Handegg".
I'm going to call it a bullshit sport.
This argument doesn't matter stop debating over the subject there's much more important things to be doing with your time.
[QUOTE=iusehax;23041359]Rugby players rip the shit out of American footballers tbh pussy padding[/QUOTE]
An average lineman is 300+ pounds. How much is the average rugby player?
We should call boxing soccer, football handegg and soccer football.
[url=http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2010/06/the-origin-of-the-word-soccer/]This is full of facts too[/url]
Soccer. :fsmug:
[QUOTE=Johannesburg]In the USA, football is that game that dominates winter Sundays and features Lycra, helmets and men so large they should come with their own zip code.[/QUOTE]
Oh no they didn't. :nyd:
[QUOTE=Uberman77883;23041430]An average lineman is 300+ pounds. How much is the average rugby player?[/QUOTE]
Fucking scary
The thing is though, we Brits mock the USA for calling it soccer for three reasons that are completely irrelevant to what the article is saying:
1. 'Football' still makes more sense than 'soccer'.
2. 'Football' was still used before the invention of the word 'soccer'.
3. The rest of the world uses 'football', or a variation of it (e.g. fussball).
Start-Stop Rugby with Padding :lol:
[QUOTE=David29;23041507]The thing is though, we Brits mock the USA for calling it soccer for three reasons that are completely irrelevant to what the article is saying:
1. 'Football' still makes more sense than 'soccer'.
2. 'Football' was still used before the invention of the word 'soccer'.
3. The rest of the world uses 'football', or a variation of it (e.g. fussball).[/QUOTE]
I think the reason we use the term, "football" for our NFL is mainly because no one in America could give a shit about Soccer. The only time people actually care about Soccer is during the World Cup, and even then people still don't care about it nearly as much as other countries.
Then we give our NFL the "Football" title because it is one of the more popular sports in our country, and also because the game starts the game with a kickoff (using your foot).
I'm still calling it soccer.
Handegg sounds good to me, but I call football soccer because people around me would think I'm talking about Handegg if I said football cuz I'm in America.
[QUOTE=GamerKiwi;23041455]We should call boxing soccer, football handegg and soccer football.[/QUOTE]
If we call football handegg I'm calling soccer povertyball.
[QUOTE=iusehax;23041359]Rugby players rip the shit out of American footballers tbh pussy padding[/QUOTE]
Have you played either?
People don't hold back when they have their pads on.
Rugby and real football is probably the best.
I think they should call American football rugby, it'd make more sense to broaden the term rugby than football.
[QUOTE]men so large they should come with their own zip code.[/QUOTE]
fuck you america
[QUOTE=wewt!;23041346]No it's because they beat their wives when they came home from playing it and said ''I socked 'er!'' or ''Sock 'er!'' :pseudo:[/QUOTE]
Who let you out of your "special" education class?
[QUOTE=iusehax;23041359]Rugby players rip the shit out of American footballers tbh pussy padding[/QUOTE]
stop playing flag football and play tackle football. after the first play i bet you're gonna go home crying with a broken arm and leg.
[QUOTE=David29;23041507]The thing is though, we Brits mock the USA for calling it soccer for three reasons that are completely irrelevant to what the article is saying:
1. 'Football' still makes more sense than 'soccer'.
2. 'Football' was still used before the invention of the word 'soccer'.
[b]3. The rest of the world uses 'football', or a variation of it (e.g. fussball).[/b][/QUOTE]
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5e/Soccer_football.png[/img]
Also learn how to read news articles.
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