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American football should be called soccer, amirite?
by Anonymous1 year ago
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 Anonymous1 year ago
There is no confusion in the United States. Football is American football and soccer is futbol. It works fine.
by Anonymous1 year ago
Soccer is short for association football
by Anonymous1 year ago
Neither of those words contain an E or and R
by Anonymous1 year ago
American football should change its name to hand egg.
Didn't it used to be called gridiron or something?
by Anonymous1 year ago
I'd be down, if soccer changed its name to leg potato
by Anonymous1 year ago
The literal translation of Polish name for soccer is legball
by Anonymous1 year ago
Of course the Poles have the best name. Some day the world will learn.
by Anonymous1 year ago
Its the same in Finland. Also for Sweden and Germany.
by Anonymous1 year ago
I've never heard anyone call it Beinball, it's always Fußball in Germany.
by Anonymous1 year ago
Yes, sometimes it's called gridiron football because Canada also developed the sport independent of America around the same time.
by Anonymous1 year ago
Different nation different names. I don't see any problem with that.
by Anonymous1 year ago
Why don't we just call it American rugby
by Anonymous1 year 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 Anonymous1 year ago
Kennst du Fussball? Ein liebeches Spiel im Deutschland.
by Anonymous1 year 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 Anonymous1 year 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 Anonymous1 year 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 Anonymous1 year ago
In Poland it's piłka nożna for soccer and futbol amerykański for american football
by Anonymous1 year 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 Anonymous1 year ago
In Italy we keep it simple: Calcio=Kick
by Anonymous1 year ago
Baseball should be called "American Cricket"
by Anonymous1 year ago
Ahahahhaha
by Anonymous1 year ago
Call it hand ball. Idk
by Anonymous1 year ago
Then how will you know how big the ball is?
by Anonymous1 year ago
I don't think it's Europe that needs to shut up... but yeah agree with the proposal.
by Anonymous1 year ago
No, it should be called American Rugby, because that's what it is.
by Anonymous1 year 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 Anonymous1 year ago
The simple solution is to use a word that will be clear and won't create a confusion.
by Anonymous1 year ago
Yeah, like soccer could be fall down and cry ball while football could be morbidly obese concussion ball
by Anonymous1 year ago
Cryball, handegg
by Anonymous1 year ago
It's a lot closer to Rugby than it is Football / Soccer.
by Anonymous1 year ago
The rugby football union would disagree. We take our licks without padding.
by Anonymous1 year 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 Anonymous1 year ago
other places call it soccer too though so this would just be more confusing, not less
by Anonymous1 year ago
Imho American football should be called North American Football
by Anonymous1 year 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?
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