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11 Aug 05
12 Aug 05
Originally posted by The PlumberEvery football code plays with a football, Soccer included. If you Yanks would only call your football code 'Gridiron' when talking around followers of other codes things would be a lot simpler.
It's named after the ball - they play with a football, so the game is called football, just like baseball and basketball. Why don't you call your sport soccer ball? 😉
Tisk, tisk. Imagine with everyone insisted on referring to their code as footy all the time.
12 Aug 05
Originally posted by StarrmanHowever, there is the historical aspect to this as well, as the wonderful Mr. Webb-Ellis was playing football when he 'invented' rugby. Rugby Football. I rest my case 😛
Hardly common, that's an outmoded name generally only used for club names. We realised years ago that it wasn't really a foot game and changed our colloquialisms accordingly 😛.
13 Aug 05
Originally posted by celticcountryYou have not been watching well. In a football game we can see the ball get kicked, passed, caught, and carryed. In a soccer game all you do is kick the ball around when it is in play, otherwise it is passed into play. I have only seen one soccer game. For ninety min. (?) all they did was kick the ball around. It was a zero to zero score. Soccer should be called kick ball?
say football, when its actually throw and catch ball?