American football should be called soccer, amirite?

That's not how this works. That's not how any of this works. The English were the ones that came up with the name "soccer."

by Anonymous 2 years ago

There is no confusion in the United States. Football is American football and soccer is futbol. It works fine.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Soccer is short for association football

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Neither of those words contain an E or and R

by Anonymous 2 years ago

American football should change its name to hand egg. Didn't it used to be called gridiron or something?

by Anonymous 2 years ago

I'd be down, if soccer changed its name to leg potato

by Anonymous 2 years ago

The literal translation of Polish name for soccer is legball

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Of course the Poles have the best name. Some day the world will learn.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Its the same in Finland. Also for Sweden and Germany.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

I've never heard anyone call it Beinball, it's always Fußball in Germany.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Yes, sometimes it's called gridiron football because Canada also developed the sport independent of America around the same time.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Different nation different names. I don't see any problem with that.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Why don't we just call it American rugby

by Anonymous 2 years ago

It's called soccer all over the English-speaking world except for the UK, and they were the ones that came up with the name soccer so they can deal.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Kennst du Fussball? Ein liebeches Spiel im Deutschland.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Yeah, Fußball, not football, because it's German, fútbol in Spanish, футбольный in Russian. Shock of shock, they speak languages other than English.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

So it's called "foot" "ball" in pretty much every language except English, and within English speaking world it's really only Americans who call it soccer, because we call something else football. Go anywhere outside the US and yeah you'll occasionally hear soccer, but for the most part the sports are called Football and American Football.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

So what? That's not how language works. Australians say "g'day." In German, you say "Guten Tag" which means "good day." Therefore we shouldn't say hi anymore, we should say good day. That's silly. Soccer is the only way it's referred to in Canada, and it's the most common way to refer to it in Ireland and Australia...

by Anonymous 2 years ago

In Poland it's piłka nożna for soccer and futbol amerykański for american football

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Actually, we use the word soccer (and variants) interchangeably with football all the time. But football is football. Calling handegg football is just dumb. American Rugby would make more sense.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

In Italy we keep it simple: Calcio=Kick

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Baseball should be called "American Cricket"

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Ahahahhaha

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Call it hand ball. Idk

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Then how will you know how big the ball is?

by Anonymous 2 years ago

I don't think it's Europe that needs to shut up... but yeah agree with the proposal.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

No, it should be called American Rugby, because that's what it is.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

I'm just glad the US has been eliminated from the World Cup. Now I can watch football at the bar today without all of the people pretending they care about soccer.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

The simple solution is to use a word that will be clear and won't create a confusion.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Yeah, like soccer could be fall down and cry ball while football could be morbidly obese concussion ball

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Cryball, handegg

by Anonymous 2 years ago

It's a lot closer to Rugby than it is Football / Soccer.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

The rugby football union would disagree. We take our licks without padding.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Maybe change the name to US rules football to bring it in line with stuff like ausy rules football. But I think American football and football are definitely good enough destinations.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

other places call it soccer too though so this would just be more confusing, not less

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Imho American football should be called North American Football

by Anonymous 2 years ago

bruhh.. to start off I am from the U.S. You're basically saying that because the United States wanted to be different from *literally everyone else* and call futbol "soccer" that means that an entirely *different* sport should be renamed to "soccer". You realize how dumb this sounds and how little this makes sense?

by Anonymous 2 years ago