do you hate it when people say football as "soccer"

Yes!!!

Considering that is what me and all my friends call it, no.

@kfabz-23: may i ask why?

@kendell: because it's football, when American call it soccer and NFL football it pisses me off because it literally makes no sense for NFL to be called football.

Because there's a thing called British and American English

@kfabz-23: i believe its called foot ball because it comes from rugby football and we call soccer soccer from association football.

No, because in North America, the NFL is far more popular, therefore Football will remain soccer here. And FYI, the most recent Superbowl was the most watched Television event in history, far more then soccer.

Foot Fairy Ball is more like it.

JRSJ.

Nope. Just means they grew up in a different culture to mine, and that's no crime really :)

@rd189: it doesn't make it logical

@bumpyboo: amen to that.

No, what ticks me off is that if it was Americans who were being ignorant to another nation's culture we would be called ignorant disrespectful Americans, but here are the euro-dweebs not acknowledging our culture.

Hypocrites.

Not really but you can tell how much a person knows about the sport by what they call it.

Yes in the US, not the world.

@kfabz-23: It's perfectly logical if your from North America. Our sport is significantly more popular here, so why should we change it's name?

When people confuse the two it really annoys me. I mean:

How can anyone confuse them is beyond me.

I'm American, so, no.

It's a little bit egocentric to invent a game, and then call it football, while ignoring the fact that there already is a game called football (which is actually played with foot and ball) and it's the most popular game in the world. I've got no problem with Americans using the term soccer in their inner circles, but in the international conversations, I think it would be correct to call it Football, and NFL to call American Football.

@rd189: I don't think it should be changed it's too late. I just find it annoying that Americans don't call football, football. What the hell is soccer!

To the OP: Only when it's accompanied by lines about the other 'football'.

Depends if you go by what the organizers claim or what others measure/estimate, for instance:

World Cup Final 2006: the claim was 715million viewers, the estimated actual figure was 258million

Superbowl 2006: claim of 750-1 billion viewers, the estimated actual figure was 95million.

And the reason is simple, American Football is just a much smaller sport than Football is, it's very big in the US but nearly non-existent outside of it where Football is the biggest sport bar none, with a few national variation ofc.

Because, despite many popular beliefs, USA isn't the center of the universe.

I don't really care but technically calling soccer football makes way more sense than calling American football that condidering at any given time there's only 1 guy on the field who even uses his feet on the ball.

Itd be like if we called thumb wrestling a pinky fight.

American Football is called Football because it's played with 1 foot long ball.

Same here.

@mortein said:

@joshmightbe said:

I don't really care but technically calling soccer football makes way more sense than calling American football that condidering at any given time there's only 1 guy on the field who even uses his feet on the ball.

Itd be like if we called thumb wrestling a pinky fight.

American Football is called Football because it's played with 1 foot long ball.

So it will be wrong the day the US joins the rest of the world and starts using the metric system of measurement :)

No just like I don't get annoyed when football is called American football or gridiron.

@outside_85: I didn't know that.

No because it's called Soccer.

Well, America does everything better, so, no. Everyone else should ADAPT TO US!

This is America son!

Not so annoyed about Soccer/Football nomoculture, more annoyed when Americans tell me that Rugby is a rip off of NFL. It's not Rugby was invented long before American Football but after actual Football (Or soccer if you're American)

Yeah, this.

Fun story

I lived in Jamaica until i was 8

The first week i moved to Florida

These dudes were like "hey wanna play some football later"

I use to play football("soccer") in in Jamaica so i wore my old uniform.

Any the game is about to start, i get the ball, i'm perplexed because I've never seen a American football before.

I had no idea what to do so i kicked to someone,and everyone was like "wtf are you doing "

I care about neither, so no.

Football is football. The thing that's inundated with stoppages, is played primarily with your hands and features absurd body armour? That's not football.

@impurestcheese: Yeah well, most people don't seem to know that the 'original' football that was played in western Europe was something like a cross between rugby and American football which evolved into rugby -the 'contact version' and football -the one where body checks were frowned as 'cheap tactic' (not penalised btw) and only foot was allowed in passing the ball and you had only one goal post.

Original football ball is that pointy 'ball' used in rugby & American football. It's now round because the original was a hay/sawdust stuffed bladder and you can't kick it very well or long with feet before it breaks so over time the players devised a sewn leather or canvas "slipcase" to protect the air filled pig bladder. Though a simple big ball of rags or ropes was also popular with the poor people who couldn't necessarily afford a "nice" ball.

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Nope. It's soccer here because football is attributed to a far better sport.

Honestly the only thing that bothers me is that American Football is actually called football. The ball is always in the guys hand. It is rarely kicked. Doesn't make alot of sense. Then they named football soccer. Bizarre. Doesn't really matter though, let them call it what ever they want.

@y2g: Your comment is trying to invoke an argument haha. O the joy of people online.

"Inevitably, someone pipes up in a loud voice about Americans ignorantly renaming the sport to suit themselves, while another suggests that the NFL is to blame for the confusion.

Well, now you can wade in and inform both parties that they are the misguided and ignorant ones. Politely and amicably, of course, though we'll allow you a little smugness.

The word "soccer" is actually British. It derives from the game's proper name, association football, with the "soc" bit taken from the word "association" .

The reason it came into popular usage was simple: in the 19th century, football and rugby were both commonly known as football, the former dubbed "association football" and the latter "rugby football". But both phrases are a bit of a mouthful, however, so they were popularly shortened to "soccer" and "rugger" to keep things simple.

Now, your grandad and anybody else over the age of 50 probably knows this instinctively, though younger sports fans might well not since the word "soccer" hasn't been widely used in Britain for three or four decades."

Soccer is not an improper term to use for it. Its just that football came to be synonymous with association style fb(which has been already referred to as soccer) in Britain/Eurpoe at the same time that football came to be synonymous with American style football over here in America so America continued to use the term soccer while it died out in Britain.

@spambot: My father is over 60 and my grandfather over 90 and has never heard soc for football in the UK. Although I think the sports should just be called what they are most suited for. football. You kick ball with your foot. That makes sense. Football you carry the ball and run up the field. What, what moron picked the name? Really?

@guru_crack: Or I have an opinion having played both for multiple years.

@y2g: American Football is a more tactical sport. But the way you said it was baiting soccer fans. personally I enjoy playing football, never played american football but to watch either bores me.

I agree its not a crime to have grown up in a different culture........unless you're Irish, Scottish or Welsh

@guru_crack: *shrug* When everything on the internet says the term began in Britain chances are that's where it began. As to why American football is referred to as football I think its because it sort of derived itself from what used to be known as 'rugby football' which is mentioned above and became the dominant form of the game over here while association football became dominant in Europe.