In your opinion which is the "real" football?

Question

We are practically the only country in the world where people don't call soccer football.
In your opinion, which is the real football? Football or Football (what Americans call soccer)
If you go to the U.K you won't find any soccer matches being played, only football. Where did the world soccer originate from?

Answer 1

American football.

You guys play soccer.

Answer 2

Soccer is an abbreviation of 'association football'.

And of course, the REAL FOOTball has to be the one where you use your FEET more than any other part of your body! The one where using your hands or arms is banned!! That's why it's known as FOOTball!! Unfortunately, 'soccer' is just another word for FOOTball, so what can you American's call YOUR game??!
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Answer 3

I understand that the rest of the world plays football and not soccer. Whatever. What's in a name anyway? Ask Shakespeare. Soccer is not football to me. When I think of football, I think of Superbowl Sundays. I think of clashing pads, crunching helmets, high flying pigskin spirals, diving catches and heavy tackling giants! Sure the rest of the world plays soccer and calls it football. Whatever. That's their loss. We play soccer too. We just found better sports to pass our time with. Call me ethnocentric, but I just think the rest of the world is ignorant of the sport. If they took the time to really understand it, then they'd realize why we think our NFL football is "real" football. Football is a very dramatic sport. Have you ever seen those NFL films? Those are classic. They turn football players into supermen. Watching two awesome teams go at it is like watching a battle between two bands of mythic heroes. Every down is like a live action Trojan War. NFL football may not be the "real" football in the eyes of everyone else, but it is definitely the finer sport in mine.

Answer 4

I've always felt that world football be referred to as football and our football be called gridiron football. I still call ours football and the worlds' as soccer. But world football has been organized for much longer than American football. A very interesting quandary.

Answer 5

I am a huge american football fanatic, but I agree, calling it football doesn't make much sense. They only kick it on occasion. It touches hands more than it touches feet. I think soccer has more of a right to be called football.

Answer 6

Well, since Americans invented the American Football they have been calling Football soccer, but they way you say Football depends where you are saying it, if you are in the sates and you say Football it is wrong, but if you are somwhere esle besides the U.S. and you say Football, then it ok.

Answer 7

I think soccer is real football. America shouldn't be so speacial to call football soccer and our football football.

Our football has nothing ot do with the foot.


♥ rhapsody

Answer 8

It is ironic that the term "soccer" was coined by a briton, I don't remember his name though, in order to differentiate real football from other football games like rugby.

Answer 9

football comes from Europe is played with the feet ,this is the real foot ball ,that Americans call soccer.
American football is more like rugby with armour ,and you are allowed to touch the ball with your hands ,this is not footbal

Answer 10

Good old USA Football. :)