I wonder whose lack of creativity caused two of the most popular sports on Earth to have the same name. Doesn’t it make more sense to call the sport played with one’s feet “football”? Please don’t tell me that football is called that because players kick the ball to start a game or to make a field goal. The use of feet is minimal in both cases. The fact that running is done with your feet, and players must run in possession of the ball in order to “touch down” is not enough to call it “football” over soccer either. Baseball and basketball take running with a ball too, and they have their own names.
I personally think that there is no sport that deserves to be called football more than soccer does, because no other sport involves the use of one’s feet more than it. I also think that if soccer was officially created first, football fans should find another name for their sport, like Egg-ball for example, given the shape of the ball. The NFL would turn into the NEL! Isn’t that exciting?
2006-07-06
22:43:16
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