it makes way more sense to call it soccor doesnt it???????

Question

i mean in ireland we call it soccor most of the time cos we have gaelic FOOTBALL. what is it with people that call it football??? americans have american football too. besides its not like rugby people call rugby football. i just dont get it

ruairi N
who are you and where are you from that you think you invented it??????????????

gaa covers hurling gaelic football and handball and gaelic is just short for gaelic football anyway i was just using rugby as an exampleand i dont want it to be called football(or handball for that matter there is already and irish handball)

Answer 1

Then in Ireland, you are wrong. Football and Rugby were invented by the English, long before any of you other, so called football games.

As we invented it, we could call it anything we wanted to. We still call them the same today.

American football, is in comparison, a very new sport.

I don't know when Gaelic football was invented? Was it after rugby and football?

Answer 2

it makes no sense at all to call football soccer. football was invented long before American football so why should we change the name of our national sport to suit the Americans? if a band has a name, and then another band comes along and calls themselves the same name, who has to change their name? The new band. so when a new sport comes along why does the old one have to change its name? as many people have already said, American football is played mostly with the hands, whilist football is played mostly with the feet, hence the name. rugby is an offshoot of football when William Webb-Ellis of rugby school picked up the ball and ran with it. they called the new game rugby after the place it was invented because they realised it was a DIFFERENT game and not played with the feet. im not so sure about Gaelic football and when it was invented but i still think the traditional game of football should keep its name and it is other games that have changed. Sadly, Americans and therefore the media, have decided that our national game must change its name to suit our 'friends' across the pond.

Answer 3

Football should be called football and change the names of other games like american football (as it is predominately played with the hands). gaelic football surely has a gaelic name so call that, that. rugby is called rugby because whoever invented it realised that it wasnt football so had the intelligence to give it an original name, unlike whoever invented american 'football'. AN AMERICAN I SUPPOSE!?

Answer 4

It seems that this question has become a bit of a trans-Atlantic battle as to the longevity of the sports in question.

Association Football was first codified at Cambridge University, where formal laws were drawn up in 1848. The Football Association was formed on 26th October 1863 at the Freemasons' Tavern, Great Queen Street, Holborn, London.

A look at Wiki (which seems to be a reasonably reliable, much-edited source for these kind of things) tells us that American Football was not played until 1869 :

"Rutgers University and Princeton University played the first game of college football on Nov. 6, 1869 in New Brunswick, N.J. Rutgers won that first game, 6-4. From the 1820s to around 1890, Dartmouth College students played a football-like game now known as "Old Division Football," to which they published rules in 1871."

So far from a debate about ownership of the word 'football' being the result of national insecurities, it really comes down to history. Football - proper football, codified in England, mastered in Scotland, and played with the feet all over the World by millions - was played first.
American Football - a game limited to North America, and played largely with the hands - came second, by at least six years and a month, and possibly twenty-one years if you accept the Cambridge theory.

The last point is that wiki is a global search engine, and perhaps we should leave the last word to the global community (or at least, how it was this evening before an American feeling insecure chooses to update it) :

Football is the name given to a number of different, but related, team sports. The most popular of these world-wide is (association) football (also known as soccer).

If you search for 'American Football' it takes you straight to the appropriate page.

PS NOTE TO 'AWESOME' BILL - it is unwise to accuse somebody of an error when you have not checked the facts carefully yourself.

Answer 5

ok, lets settle this, we wont call it football or soccer, but lets all call the sport by its full name, 'Association Football'
The first college football match of American football was in 1869 and the Football Association (soccer to non-followers) was formed in 1863, therefore the english version has been going longer than the american version.
There are three names that you can call Gaelic football, they are football, gaelic or gaa, so it would make more sense to call it gaelic, therefore you would make things easier all round and people wouldn't get confused.

Answer 6

ok...it's called football for a reason...the majority of the play is with the foot. Football/soccer is much older than american football (where they minimally use the foot to "use" the ball). Gaelic football is similar to rugby...so enough said...this is easy. Rugby is rugby...throughout the world.

Answer 7

England came up with football and the name over here has stuck. No offence but gaelic "football" ure allowed to use ure hands, and American "football" is jus dere take on our game of rugby but they r big girls blouses cause they wear all that protective gear. Football dere is a clue in the name FOOTball.

Answer 8

Does it matter whether it is called soccer or football? They both mean the same sport, the majority of people who like the sport know what both of the words mean. Football is a common term around the world and that is the one the majority of people prefer to use.

Paul

Answer 9

No, because majority of the world calls in football, which it is...A ball that you kick around with your feet. Sure, some other countries may have thier own "football", but still majority of the world calls soccer football, and it just makes more sense that way. Just because some countries call it soccer, does not mean it makes more sense.

Answer 10

I dont think it is totally bullshit to call Football Soccer. dosnt make sense at all.
Wehn you say football it makes sense FOOT and BALL makes FOOTBALL. which in (soccer) we just use our foot to kick the ball. an dit perfectly makes sense to say foot ball that is why mijority of the worl knows (soccer) as football and tha tis the proper term for it.
and FOOTBALL i mean amercan football should be called eithe amercan foot ball or not football at all becouse it hardly involves the foot touching the ball.
also I dont consider the football BALL a ball becouse it is no round it is some how Elliptical. So Every Amercan there should start thinking of a name for there so called football.