Aielyn said:
I feel I should point out that soccer is the only popular sport that can legitimately justify itself being called "football". Gridiron, on the other hand, involves the feet and ball making contact only very rarely, comparatively speaking. Personally, I'm big on not using the word "football" for any of them, though, for two reasons. One, it becomes unclear unless you add qualifiers that just make it longer than the real names ("American Football" vs "Gridiron"). Two, I'm not a fan of any of those sports, really (if push came to shove, I'd play soccer over the others, though). Fun fact: "Soccer" is actually used in England, too. Indeed, it comes from the phrase "Association Football", which is the full name for the sport. |
Hey soemone else who knows that. I get sick of freaking explaining that to people.
The reason though why "American Football" can legiatmitly be called Football is because it came from Rugby.
Whose full name is Rugby Football.
Football is really more of a Genus then a species. There used to be a bunch of "football" games.
Football winning out in soccer likely because it was the most popular sport and football is a lot easier to say in another language then assosiation or even soccer.
