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Old 06-15-2004, 12:27 AM
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in football they use their feet too. Either way, who gives a crap about the name of a sport??
In American football, the ball is rarely kicked.
so they use their feet right???

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in football they use their feet too. Either way, who gives a crap about the name of a sport??
In American football, the ball is rarely kicked.
so they use their feet right???

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ok so now that we got facts about arguing straight. goddamn tell me why u call ur game football instead of uhm....whatever else? I just dont get it. why lord why are we pested by these americans?.....

and yes this is still stupid/silly/lame/childish/immature/whatever, its ur pick, but this argument goes nowhere unless some of u answers that

hmmm, it's just a name, that's all!

i mean basketball could be named hand-ball, it's pretty similar, only a totally different goal, so why isn't it called like that?

tennis could be named whackball, and so could baseball or squash be called. why aren't they called like this?

what does tennis or golf mean anyway?

a marathon is called marathon because of the historic greek event, but it is still called like that, even so it has nothing to do with greece anymore in the first place, so why is it still called like that?

i could go on with stuff like that, cause you seem to like stupid questions about names of games.
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what does tennis or golf mean anyway?
Golf - Gentlemen Only Ladies Forbidden So, soccer can't be worse than that, can it?
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but this argument goes nowhere unless some of u answers that
I don't think anyone knows StoneDeaf. I think the original american football was more like rugby - it then evolved to what it is today. Do they use their feet more in rugby?

Too bad you've got no sense of humor though.
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"Soccer" is a term coined in the UK. It is an abbreviation of "Association Football". There are several different forms of football: Rugby Football, American Football, Australian Rules Football and of course Association Football to name the big ones.

That is all I could find so far.
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"Soccer" was a term invented in England in the 19th century as a derivative of the official name "Association Football" to distinguish it from Rugby Football. Both were normally called football and the habit was to call them soccer and rugby. Eventually soccer just became football and rugby just became rugby.


This makes a bit more sense.
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mouse & spunk...

ok I consider myself enlightened, a bit.
never thought it evolved from rugby, since I had no clue which is older....
but, as u said it, it's rugby. you insist on calling your thing football....


but still...there can be only one!

....football that is







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I don't think anyone knows StoneDeaf. I think the original american football was more like rugby - it then evolved to what it is today. Do they use their feet more in rugby?.
Not much more, no.

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"Soccer" was a term invented in England in the 19th century as a derivative of the official name "Association Football" to distinguish it from Rugby Football. Both were normally called football and the habit was to call them soccer and rugby. Eventually soccer just became football and rugby just became rugby.
It is the association Mouse, not the sport & whichever fool started calling it rugby football is also wrong.
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It is the association Mouse, not the sport & whichever fool started calling it rugby football is also wrong.
I just copied and pasted, but whatever the case, Soccer was not a term invented by Americans.
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