Why is Football(USA) called Football?

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Why is Football(USA) called Football?
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+ QueenTD	Sep 21 2014, 12:51 AM Post #1
My Dear Melancholy, Posts: 4,480 Group: Elite Member Member #11,589 Joined: August 8, 2014 Gender Female Country United States	Just wondering why there's two sports with the same name. BQ: Is Soccer pronounced Futbol or Football? I hear both from multiple races. Never thought I'll talk about sports. Besides non contact sports that is.
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+ Pelador	Sep 21 2014, 01:05 AM Post #2
Crazy Awesome Legend Posts: 25,663 Group: Legend Member #4,634 Joined: December 12, 2009 Gender Not Specified Country None Favourite Anime HunterxHunter What Browser do you use? Firefox Favourite Manga Dragonball	They are all technically called football. American football's proper name is actually Gridiron Football. The word soccer came from English cavaliers who had emigrated to America. It was a term they invented back at Oxford and Cambridge university in England the same as how rugger is used for rugby. The words soccer and football are both correct, so feel free to use what you wish. The pronounciation of football depends where you come from but people in England generally pronounce it as football. Although people in the east will generally pronounce it footbull because of their accents. Edited by Pelador, Sep 21 2014, 01:06 AM.
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+ QueenTD	Sep 21 2014, 01:12 AM Post #3
My Dear Melancholy, Posts: 4,480 Group: Elite Member Member #11,589 Joined: August 8, 2014 Gender Female Country United States	How do you say Gridiron? Grid-Iron? Or...?
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+ Pelador	Sep 21 2014, 01:15 AM Post #4
Crazy Awesome Legend Posts: 25,663 Group: Legend Member #4,634 Joined: December 12, 2009 Gender Not Specified Country None Favourite Anime HunterxHunter What Browser do you use? Firefox Favourite Manga Dragonball	All one word I suppose. Of course no one calls in that anymore. That's just the technical name for it apparently. There's also rugby football and association football which is soccer. Then there's Irish football and Australian football. You see what happened was that the sport was played around different parts of the world before any official rules were invented so everyone ended up with their own variety. Edited by Pelador, Sep 21 2014, 01:17 AM.
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+ QueenTD	Sep 21 2014, 01:35 AM Post #5
My Dear Melancholy, Posts: 4,480 Group: Elite Member Member #11,589 Joined: August 8, 2014 Gender Female Country United States	What's Irish and Australian Football? I thought everywhere else besides America played Soccer.
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+ Pelador	Sep 21 2014, 02:12 AM Post #6
Crazy Awesome Legend Posts: 25,663 Group: Legend Member #4,634 Joined: December 12, 2009 Gender Not Specified Country None Favourite Anime HunterxHunter What Browser do you use? Firefox Favourite Manga Dragonball	Nah theirs is more like rugby. They play association football as well however.
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+ Emmeth	Sep 21 2014, 02:13 AM Post #7
I ♥ Yoeri Posts: 20,075 Group: Legend Member #8,985 Joined: February 7, 2013 Country Japan	Soccer is short for association football. Futbol is the latin way of saying it.
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~~GrooseStrikesBack~~	Sep 21 2014, 04:43 AM Post #8
Posts: 4,614 Group: Suspended Member #6,508 Joined: July 20, 2011 Gender Not Specified Country None Favourite Anime The Steve Austin Show: Unleashed. What Browser do you use? Can o Whoop Ass. Favourite Manga Family Friendly Version of the Steve Austin Show.	Australian Football is very... different. I don't think it can be explained.



Master Gohan	Sep 21 2014, 05:22 AM Post #9
Posts: 2,178 Group: New York Yankee Member #9,780 Joined: July 21, 2013 Gender Male Country United States Favourite Anime KIll la Kill, No Game No Life, Code Geass, Gosick, Log Horizon, Steins;Gate	Just so happened that they were called the same thing. No explanation really. Why are those two kids both named Alex? I don't know.



+ Emmeth	Sep 21 2014, 05:35 AM Post #10
I ♥ Yoeri Posts: 20,075 Group: Legend Member #8,985 Joined: February 7, 2013 Country Japan	Master Gohan Sep 21 2014, 05:22 AM Just so happened that they were called the same thing. No explanation really. Why are those two kids both named Alex? I don't know. The one Alex is the original Alex and the other Alex is a bleak copy. They are both good, but one is older.
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UncleGoten	Sep 21 2014, 11:34 AM Post #11
Posts: 2,118 Group: GFX Team Member #7,628 Joined: May 11, 2012 Country Ireland Favourite Anime Kimi ni Todoke,Ao Haru Ride, Kaichou wa Maid-sama!, Nisekoi, Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun, and Sakurasao Favourite Manga Dragon Ball	Pelador Sep 21 2014, 01:15 AM All one word I suppose. Of course no one calls in that anymore. That's just the technical name for it apparently. There's also rugby football and association football which is soccer. Then there's Irish football and Australian football. You see what happened was that the sport was played around different parts of the world before any official rules were invented so everyone ended up with their own variety. Pretty much no such thing as Irish Football. Its Gaelic (Football) nobody includes the Football part.



* Bex	Sep 27 2014, 12:43 PM Post #12
★ Bextreme Dream ★ Posts: 9,435 Group: Retired Staff Member #1,545 Joined: July 5, 2006 Gender Female Country United Kingdom What Browser do you use? Google Chrome	Nerd_Girl_TD Sep 21 2014, 12:51 AM Just wondering why there's two sports with the same name. For all those wondering the answer to this question - I have the answer. Football (Soccer) is called football because you use your feet to kick the ball (obviously). Football (American Football) is called football because the ball you use to play is a foot long.
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+ Pelador	Sep 27 2014, 01:04 PM Post #13
Crazy Awesome Legend Posts: 25,663 Group: Legend Member #4,634 Joined: December 12, 2009 Gender Not Specified Country None Favourite Anime HunterxHunter What Browser do you use? Firefox Favourite Manga Dragonball	That's not the reason.
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* Bex	Sep 27 2014, 02:40 PM Post #14
★ Bextreme Dream ★ Posts: 9,435 Group: Retired Staff Member #1,545 Joined: July 5, 2006 Gender Female Country United Kingdom What Browser do you use? Google Chrome	So it's just a coincidence that an NFL ball is about a foot long then?
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+ Pelador	Sep 27 2014, 02:42 PM Post #15
Crazy Awesome Legend Posts: 25,663 Group: Legend Member #4,634 Joined: December 12, 2009 Gender Not Specified Country None Favourite Anime HunterxHunter What Browser do you use? Firefox Favourite Manga Dragonball	Yes it is.
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