How come Football (Soccer) has been about for 150 years, and yet the Americans changed it to Soccer so that they could call thier own Football (Grid Iron) Football Which has only been around for about 80 years. What confuses me is in Football the players actually use thier feet where in Grid Iron they use thier hands, so from now on Football will be the UK game the older game and the one where the players actually use thier feet
2006-10-05 00:09:04 · 11 answers · asked by poli_b2001 5 in Sports ➔ Football ➔ Other - Football
Grid Iron is boring and slow, at least Football is a continual game, and the rules are easy enough to follow. Grid Iron is like live chess and they are p*ssies, they have to wear armour
2006-10-05 00:15:54 · update #1
If none of the players wore armour then i bet $1000 that there are a number of Football/Rugby players would crush the NFL stars, check Bobo Balde(football) or Jonah Lomu (Rugby)they are bloody giants
2006-10-05 00:37:39 · update #2
we didn't really "change" it to soccer...We call it soccer as the term was derived from the word "association" referring to Association Football.
But I do agree that it's quite strange why we Americans call football, football. I don't understand it.
2006-10-05 08:41:57 · answer #1 · answered by sweetpanther08 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The Americans didn't change it to soccer. The name soccer appeared in England in the 1880's to avoid confusion with the newly seperated Football Association and Rugby Football. But the name football prevailed in Europe.
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Football or Soccer? - In the 1880's, Oxford University students used slang which involved adding an "er" to the end of words they had deliberately shortened.
"Rugger," was slang for Rugby Football. A student, named Charles Wreford Brown, was asked if he liked to play rugger.
'No soccer!' Was his witty reply.
He had shortened asSOCiation (football) and added "er."
The term was coined!
2006-10-05 07:41:13 · answer #2 · answered by militiaarise 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why do you care what we call it over here. In all the countries that actually care about soccer they call it football.
And I'm sick of hearing how football players are weak because they wear pads. Take any soccer star, any rugby star and let them play football in America without pads, they would be DEAD before halftime.
2006-10-05 07:29:25 · answer #3 · answered by Homer'sOddity 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
coz the yanks do not have a clue about sport , i mean come on wrestling, american football. IT IS NOT SOCCER YOU FOOLS IT IS FOOTBALL, plus whats the deal with all the padding they wear in american "football" how mard can u be, you dont see our rugby players with all that padding. You insult the game of football by using the phrase for your game, give it back, and stop calling it soccer
2006-10-05 08:12:47 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
well you got ur Number wrong American Football has been around lot longer teh just 80 yrs Pal to begin with So of the Oldest College rivalries are older than 75 yrs old So Check again, And Keep Soccer what it is Soccer not anything else
2006-10-05 07:20:30 · answer #5 · answered by back2skewl 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
In Soccer they do not use only the feet, you use your brain to make the they, only your physical ability is not enough, the brain is the difference, also as all sports needs self control and personality, I believe that every sport has its own do's and don ts
2006-10-05 08:59:56 · answer #6 · answered by pelancha 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
so what would you suggest as a name for the football played in america? And really WHO CARES?...
2006-10-05 07:17:25 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
i dont know what your saying, but american football is way better than soccer so thats why they changed its name
2006-10-05 07:11:12 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
soccer sucks
2006-10-05 07:16:32 · answer #9 · answered by Brad B 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Oh, who cares!!!!
2006-10-05 07:10:45 · answer #10 · answered by Elizabeth L 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋