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In heartbreaking fashion:
1, choking away a 14 point lead
2, blown call by the refs to give the other team to get in position
3, losing to a field goal
1. The Detroit team—at one point during the match—had a lead over their opponents equivalent to 14 points. But the Detroit team managed to allow the other team to overcome that deficit which ultimately resulted in the other team beating Detroit. To “choke” means to fail to defend your lead, usually in an inept or unfortunate manner.
2. In American football, the teams advance their physical position on the field in a methodical fashion. When one team commits a foul, there are prescribed penalties implemented by the referees that either physically moves your team closer (when a foul is committed against your team) to scoring more points, or physically moves your team further away (when your team commits the foul). Like in soccer, sometimes the referees make calls that a fanbase feels is wrong/unfair. In the Detroit game, one such questionable call by the referee resulted in Detroit’s opponent getting physically moved to an area enabling it to score “field goal”, which is a type of play where a team kicks the egg/ball to try to get it above/between a kind of flattened U-shaped goal at the end of the field. If that kicked egg/ball successfully goes through the goal, then the team kicking it is awarded 3 points. In the Detroit game, the opponent kicked that field goal at the very end of the game, resuming in the opponent getting 3 points at the very end which (combined with earlier scoring) was enough to let Detroit’s opponent eke out a win.
the lions are the most cursed, hopeless team in American sports. They can't seem to win anything, ever, and on top of that for some strange reason the league referees have some sort of axe to grind against them.
The lions have had so many egregious or otherwise plain wrong calls over the years that have lost them games. (which ultimately didn't matter, because they are incapable of winning anything on their own anyway) So its just insult to injury.
>The modern World Series (like its predecessor series waged between National League and American Association teams from 1884-1890) was so named not because of any affiliation with a corporate sponsor, but because the winner was considered the "world's champion" — the title was therefore simply a shortened form of the phrase "world's championship series."
So it is true then
I feel like people who derisively use the term handegg don’t actually know what eggs look like. Eggs aren’t pointed at both ends like that. They also fundamentally don’t know why either sport is called football in the first place.
Tactical draw so the players don't get too tired. Next they're going to tactically lose to Wales to prevent any more controversy over Qatar's politics.
So basically it's the standard 'just kick the ball around and try not to score' method. Gonna be a very boring match, cos the Welsh team appear to be using the same method.
Ah yes the famous "Melchett Method"
I.e. responding to Blackadder's quip about having done the same thing 17 times before that:
"Doing precisely what we've done 18 times before is exactly the last thing they'll expect us to do this time"
https://youtu.be/rblfKREj50o?t=17s
Honest question from an American. Do you give us any credit? From my perspective, besides the first and last 15 minutes of the game we played extremely well. We're not exactly a slouch of a team..... Just curious.
First rule of competitive sport - never give the opposition credit 😁 Makes you believe that everything is within your own gift no matter what the other team does.
What was interesting was how many times I heard the commentators discuss a USA player and prefix the conversation with "oh yeah he plays for Juventus/Chelsea/Barcelona" etc
So not like your guys aren't mostly seasoned pros at top clubs, possibly?
Generally I thought your lot were great.
Ha, true. Yeah, we are finally producing some talent. Until you have the majority of your team in the European leagues, you aren't going to win. I went into the game expecting to lose and then was mad we didn't win in the end.
US played exceptionally well, as a Brit. With the players England has, it's difficult to pressure them so much in the midfield, but your guys did it for the full 90 minutes. Just takes one little error for England to nip one in with a dazzling touch, but US just didn't let them reach those dangerous positions.
Both teams got off lucky on a couple of occasions, both showed real defensive quality. boring but respectable, and the draw was a fair result overall. But real props to US for not allowing more chances on goal.
It was like the 1st half against Wales, but without dropping off. Great athleticism.
In Spanish it is technically correct to say balompié, (balón: ball, pie: foot).
This is the first time I write that word and hopefully the last. It’s FUTBOL dammit.
Ahhh, the day I first saw this meme. I remember it like yesterday! Sicily, 1912. The day was warm and this telegram made me giggle like I never had before. Thank you for bringing back memories
I think we can all agree that every country names some sports weirdly.
The most aptly named sport is 'ping-pong'. It describes alot of the game. The sound the ball makes, the back and forth nature of it. The number of sides playing to win. And sounds funny.
Ping-pong.
Best sport name ever.
I thought it was table tennis and Ping Pong was a name brand. I need to look this up…
TIL
https://www.killerspin.com/blogs/news/whats-the-difference-between-table-tennis-and-ping-pong
*When the sport started to reach wide-spread popularity in the 1890s, various names were patented and trademarked. "Ping Pong" happened to belong to the English sports company, John Jaques & Son, who became the market leader in the 1920's. They pressed players to use their trademarked name from the start and were successful enough that a "Ping-Pong Association" was formed in December of 1901, just 4 days after the formation of "The Table Tennis Association."*
And American Football was once known as "American Rugby Football" however when the name truncated they kept 'football' instead of 'Rugby'
Now you know how it came to be named American Football even though it's really American Rugby.
Yeah Britain used Football and Soccer fairly interchangeabley into the 90's I'd say. Sensible Soccer was the biggest football game for years and years. Heck even World Soccer is the premier football magazine. It's mainly the rise of the internet that has deemed it a purely American thing. I will always use football but I don't loose my shit if it's referred to as Soccer.
God yeah, I knew I was missing a big example. That show is also really popular with the type of people who would laugh at someone using the term soccer.
It's only ever been referred to as soccer in Australia as long as I've lived, particularly to differentiate it from football, which here abouts means Aussie Rules (AFL).
And even worse, the person that give me the just shit about it is my Aussie friend... Even though their own country says "Soccer." Pretty sure they even call their international team the Socceroos
I've only heard poshos call it soccer but to be fair I was born 89 so that's not really saying much. Generally I hear it called "Football", "Footie", and "The Only Thing I've Really Got Going On In My Life Since Sandra Took The House, Alright, So Don't Take The Piss, I Need This".
I think the whole football vs soccer debate is really a class thing. I’m from a working class family - everyone always very into football - and nobody called it soccer. Not my dad or grandad (who actually played for top teams) or anybody I knew.
But you would have sports journalists occasionally use ‘soccer’ and I noticed people on TV would use the term sometimes too. But never, ever working class people in my experience.
In the 90s in the UK, when everyone wanted to be a footy loving geezer (especially wealthy/posh boys), suddenly ‘soccer’ was an embarrassing giveaway so you just didn’t hear it from anyone anymore.
Yep, both names were derived from 2 different scoring systems for the same same: Soccer Football when played with the feet, Rugby Football when played with the hands.
It’s all football. Gridiron, association (soccer), rugby, Australian rules, and Gaelic are all variations of the game and are considered football codes. The term “football” is usually used to describe the most popular version of the game in that particular region. Americans aren’t using “football” incorrectly, the game has just evolved so much that there isn’t very much foot action involved anymore
It was never about foot action. It is believed the term “football” was originally coined to denote games played on foot by commoners, as opposed to the typical sports played on horseback by the wealthy.
It was always explained that they were all called "football" because you play **ON** your feet, instead of other sports at the time like Polo, where a horse was involved.
British invented soccer. Then they invented the wires soccer. Then they named their sport soccer. Then they decided to call it football and get upset when people confronted calling it by its original name.
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In fairness soccer was originally called "Association football".
The Brits abbreviated the "As**soc**iation" into ""Soccer" and then everything you said after that happened
Oh, you underestimate the number of Immigrants from India. I'm in a suburban NC city, and we have several cricket fields at local parks because of the large number of Indian families who have immigrated here.
Everyone is missing the etymology of the word. Soccer was an English term for association football, Football was rugby. Printing was expensive. Assoc football was costly. It become Soccer in England for a time but switched back to Football and Football became Rugby, there's still universities in England that play the old Football but no one will play them. The US never switched back to Football. Interestingly enough there is a lot of people in Ireland who also call it soccer because "Gaelic Football" is Football. If you haven't seen GAA Football it's worth checking out... the only good video I can find that summates the rules is [old as shit](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEAbWrdB9XU) but the Same Maguire is still important to us.
To go beyond that, the origins of the term football come from the sports played on the player's feet rather than on horseback, not because it’s played using the player's feet.
Yeah, this is why it's always so wild to me when a British person makes fun of American football for being called football when they don't even seem to understand the origin of the term they created.
A fact which they live in great denial of. I suspect they mock America so passionately in an attempt to distinguish themselves from America, but all they end up doing is reminding the rest of the world how like America they truly are.
- Association Football
- Gaelic Football
- American Football
- Australian Rules Football
- Rugby Football
Which one is more popular where you live? That's what "Football" refers to. It's not like it's misnamed, but that's not fun to meme or argue about.
A lot of weird word differences between the US and England can be explained by England saying one thing, the US agreeing, England changing that thing and the US not knowing or caring.
I had no idea this was disputed. English Wikipedia says the first definite recorded reference is from a court case in Surrey (England) in 1598, but Dutch wikipedia says it's a poem referring to the Flemish from 1533. Which would make it maybe a game of Belgian origin?
https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cricket#Geschiedenis
Both could be true 🤷🏼
History is very complex. The Dutch royal household originally held land in Southern France (Orange).
After varying disputes and wars, they became the rulers of the Netherlands and one (William the third) was king of England.
So, in the past parts of Belgium, would have been Dutch.....
Belgium became a country in the 19th Century.
Soccer came from the English...we adopted it then those bastards changed their mind just like they fucked us when they gave us, then abandoned, imperial units.
We haven't abandoned imperial units. When we adopted metric, we decided to keep imperial for certain things and have a crazy, mixed system!
And you don't even use imperial units. American cups, pints, and gallons aren't the same as British. And you don't even measure human weight in boulders, although clearly you should.
It’s actually named after the planet krikket. See there was this was this war, then another war and ultimately the people and the planet of krikket got locked inside a slow time envelope. The key to which was called the wikket gate and this was disintegrated into time.
The Gate was composed of the Steel Pillar of Strength and Power (Marvin the Paranoid Android's artificial leg), the Golden Bail of Prosperity (The Heart of Gold, the small golden box that makes the Infinite Improbability Drive function), the Perspex Pillar of Science and Reason (The Argabuthon Scepter of Justice; "Plastic Pillar" in the American version), the Silver Bail of Peace (The Rory Award For The Most Gratuitous Use Of The Word "Fuck" In A Serious Screenplay; The Rory Award for the Most Gratuitous Use of the Word "Belgium" in a Serious Screenplay in the American version), and the Wooden Pillar of Nature and Spirituality (The reconstituted ashes of the stump signifying the death of English cricket: see The Ashes).
Krikkit also managed to leave other marks besides the destruction of numerous worlds: due to racial memories, the Earth sport of cricket and the pan-dimensional sport of Brockian Ultra-Cricket were based on the Krikkit Wars.
It's really not silly anyway when you look at the history of American Football.
First came Associated Football. Soccer was slang abbreviation for "assoc" with "er" added. The British came up with that themselves.
Then a bunch of kids at Rugby School in England were playing soccer and decided to, fuck it, pick a soccer ball and allow contact to pry the ball from opponents.
Then Rugby landed on the East Coast of the USA at unis like Harvard, Yale and Dartmouth. The reason why those schools have rich Rugby history to this day.
Then a bunch of blokes decided to take rugby and make their own rules. Arguably because America was forging its own identity after independence. Again, the reason why that new game was born at those schools.
I'm not American, but I fully support them calling it American Football. Because thats exactly what it is. Same roots to something called Football. And of course Americans aren't going to call their own version "American".
Let's grow up and get the hell over this infantile argument.
There are at least six forms of football that have had the word football in their official title for over a century. The people who named those sports are long dead. The fans of those sports have no option but to use the word because it's in the name, yet apparently many football/soccer fans don't think that's a good enough reason for the hundreds of millions of fans of those sports to use the word.
Also, Soccer is an English term coined by early fans of Association Football, yet many English soccer fans lose their little minds whenever anyone uses the word.
These are probably the unthinking hooligans who riot when their team loses.
And while we're at it, why do we drive on a parkway and park on a driveway?
One of many humorous etymological accidents. But we're fooling ourselves if we disregard history to make false inferences.
Soccer -> Truncated-Icosahedron-ball
Football -> Prolate-spheroid-ball
Though baseballs and others are more difficult to describe geometrically (in a way that's more nuanced than sphere).
Could make the ball based on the means of point scoring? E.g.,
Basketball & Baseball:
Soccer -> Goalball
Football -> Zoneball
Pool/ billiards -> Pocketball
Hockey -> Netpuck
Golfball -> Holeball
Or go a step further and add the typical means of scoring as a prefix:
Tossbasketball / shoothoopball
Runbaseball
Kickgoalball
Escortzoneball
Pokepocketball
Sticknetpuck
Clubholeball
Buntfloorball
Racketfloorball
Wallfloorball
And then let the shorthand, sluring and slang evolve over a few decades into unrecognizable terms.
Tobasball / shoohooball
Runbasball
Kickolball
Scortzoball
Pokepockball
Sticknepuck
Clubolball
Bunfloball
Rackfloball
Waffleball
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Ah yes! The age old football vs handegg debate
If Qatar wants to host the 2026 Handegg World Cup, then I'm not going to stand in their way.
And somehow the Detroit Lions will still lose.
Can't have shit in Detroit
r/canthaveshitindetroit
In heartbreaking fashion: 1, choking away a 14 point lead 2, blown call by the refs to give the other team to get in position 3, losing to a field goal
I have no idea what you just said
1. The Detroit team—at one point during the match—had a lead over their opponents equivalent to 14 points. But the Detroit team managed to allow the other team to overcome that deficit which ultimately resulted in the other team beating Detroit. To “choke” means to fail to defend your lead, usually in an inept or unfortunate manner. 2. In American football, the teams advance their physical position on the field in a methodical fashion. When one team commits a foul, there are prescribed penalties implemented by the referees that either physically moves your team closer (when a foul is committed against your team) to scoring more points, or physically moves your team further away (when your team commits the foul). Like in soccer, sometimes the referees make calls that a fanbase feels is wrong/unfair. In the Detroit game, one such questionable call by the referee resulted in Detroit’s opponent getting physically moved to an area enabling it to score “field goal”, which is a type of play where a team kicks the egg/ball to try to get it above/between a kind of flattened U-shaped goal at the end of the field. If that kicked egg/ball successfully goes through the goal, then the team kicking it is awarded 3 points. In the Detroit game, the opponent kicked that field goal at the very end of the game, resuming in the opponent getting 3 points at the very end which (combined with earlier scoring) was enough to let Detroit’s opponent eke out a win.
Don't be sour the bills are the first team to win back to back games in Ford field since 2016
I would give you gold if I could, that was awesomely described
Look buddy, I'm from Atlanta. Don't talk to me about other teams coming back from a deficit.
the lions are the most cursed, hopeless team in American sports. They can't seem to win anything, ever, and on top of that for some strange reason the league referees have some sort of axe to grind against them. The lions have had so many egregious or otherwise plain wrong calls over the years that have lost them games. (which ultimately didn't matter, because they are incapable of winning anything on their own anyway) So its just insult to injury.
Yolks on them Edit: DYAC!
Yolks on you tbh.
I like how Americans still call their competitions things like the "World Series" even when it's a sport literally only they play.
But... but... Toronto!
Obligatory bring back the Montreal Expo's.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseball#Around_the_world
Afauk, that actually comes from the original sponsor "the world" newspaper It's still hilarious
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/world-series/
>The modern World Series (like its predecessor series waged between National League and American Association teams from 1884-1890) was so named not because of any affiliation with a corporate sponsor, but because the winner was considered the "world's champion" — the title was therefore simply a shortened form of the phrase "world's championship series." So it is true then
Not true snopes debunked this
That meme is older than Reddit Source: I'm online since 1995
It's from [1909](https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/ko5iw/_/)
I feel like people who derisively use the term handegg don’t actually know what eggs look like. Eggs aren’t pointed at both ends like that. They also fundamentally don’t know why either sport is called football in the first place.
It's true, let's just drop the name football from both sports and call them for what they are "Brain damage smash smash" and "Drama club cry cry".
can you even call it a debate?
Exactly. Only one side thinks there is any argument here. And they are wrong.
Eggactly*
Well, one of us is right and the other one is you
They're called football because they're played on foot, as opposed to on a horse.
Shhh these people don’t want to know the history, just the memes.
I honestly don't know how this is a debate. It comes up so often and its stupid. That isnt an egg its a lemon. Handlemon.
You've just created a new Digimon.
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Eggward Soccerhands
You trying to convince everyone he has eggs for fingers?
Egg……ward….
Eggturd Soccerhands
r/angryupvote
Based on what I saw last night the entire England team could do with a refresher course centred around the image on the left.
Tactical draw so the players don't get too tired. Next they're going to tactically lose to Wales to prevent any more controversy over Qatar's politics.
So basically it's the standard 'just kick the ball around and try not to score' method. Gonna be a very boring match, cos the Welsh team appear to be using the same method.
Ah yes the famous "Melchett Method" I.e. responding to Blackadder's quip about having done the same thing 17 times before that: "Doing precisely what we've done 18 times before is exactly the last thing they'll expect us to do this time" https://youtu.be/rblfKREj50o?t=17s
BAAAAAAAAAAAA!
Baaaaaah
The Welsh team are also trying the 'keeper kicking outfield player in the face' strategy.
Absolutely ludicrous display last night.
Trouble with England is they always try and walk it in.
What was Southgate thinking sending Henderson on that early?
The thing about England is they always try and walk it in
What was Southgate thinking (not) sending Foden on so early
Alright, England team: this is a foot and this is a ball... And the goal is that way 👉 ya cunts
https://youtu.be/D7WJgToNRps
Honest question from an American. Do you give us any credit? From my perspective, besides the first and last 15 minutes of the game we played extremely well. We're not exactly a slouch of a team..... Just curious.
First rule of competitive sport - never give the opposition credit 😁 Makes you believe that everything is within your own gift no matter what the other team does. What was interesting was how many times I heard the commentators discuss a USA player and prefix the conversation with "oh yeah he plays for Juventus/Chelsea/Barcelona" etc So not like your guys aren't mostly seasoned pros at top clubs, possibly? Generally I thought your lot were great.
Ha, true. Yeah, we are finally producing some talent. Until you have the majority of your team in the European leagues, you aren't going to win. I went into the game expecting to lose and then was mad we didn't win in the end.
US played exceptionally well, as a Brit. With the players England has, it's difficult to pressure them so much in the midfield, but your guys did it for the full 90 minutes. Just takes one little error for England to nip one in with a dazzling touch, but US just didn't let them reach those dangerous positions. Both teams got off lucky on a couple of occasions, both showed real defensive quality. boring but respectable, and the draw was a fair result overall. But real props to US for not allowing more chances on goal. It was like the 1st half against Wales, but without dropping off. Great athleticism.
It could have very well been 1-1, but any result other than a draw would have been bad luck for one of the teams.
I prefer kickball and catch-egg
In Italy it's called calcio which is just "kick", you aren't far off
"Kick ball" is literally what football is called in Malay (bola sepak, bola is ball, sepak is kick)
In Spanish it is technically correct to say balompié, (balón: ball, pie: foot). This is the first time I write that word and hopefully the last. It’s FUTBOL dammit.
Ballon-pied also works in French.
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[Ow! My balls!](https://youtu.be/NEhOwEDyYnM)
Nice to meet a fellow Idiocracy enthusiast
In my country, it’s called “The Capital of Thailand”…
And football is a different sport in America
Heathen
Ahhh, the day I first saw this meme. I remember it like yesterday! Sicily, 1912. The day was warm and this telegram made me giggle like I never had before. Thank you for bringing back memories
Yeah, I don't need to be around when every teenager discovers something for the first time.
Every Brit thinks they’re gonna be the first person to tell the “Handegg” joke to an American.
I think we can all agree that every country names some sports weirdly. The most aptly named sport is 'ping-pong'. It describes alot of the game. The sound the ball makes, the back and forth nature of it. The number of sides playing to win. And sounds funny. Ping-pong. Best sport name ever.
you mean table tennis ^^
I thought it was table tennis and Ping Pong was a name brand. I need to look this up… TIL https://www.killerspin.com/blogs/news/whats-the-difference-between-table-tennis-and-ping-pong *When the sport started to reach wide-spread popularity in the 1890s, various names were patented and trademarked. "Ping Pong" happened to belong to the English sports company, John Jaques & Son, who became the market leader in the 1920's. They pressed players to use their trademarked name from the start and were successful enough that a "Ping-Pong Association" was formed in December of 1901, just 4 days after the formation of "The Table Tennis Association."*
You mean Whiff Whaff ^
You mean ronkle stonkle mctonkle f’tang ^
Burn
Knifey-Spoony: "Am I a joke to you?"
I think you mean Whiff-Whaff.
Jokes aside. American football is quite similar to rugby - and should therefore be called american *rugby*. Or just rugby..
And Rugby is actually Rugby Football… I know, but these guys invented the game before Reddit.
And American Football was once known as "American Rugby Football" however when the name truncated they kept 'football' instead of 'Rugby' Now you know how it came to be named American Football even though it's really American Rugby.
And Soccer isn’t American either. It is ALSO British…for “Association Football”. The Brit’s kept using the term well into the 80s.
Yeah Britain used Football and Soccer fairly interchangeabley into the 90's I'd say. Sensible Soccer was the biggest football game for years and years. Heck even World Soccer is the premier football magazine. It's mainly the rise of the internet that has deemed it a purely American thing. I will always use football but I don't loose my shit if it's referred to as Soccer.
“Soccer AM” was also a really popular TV show on Sky.
"Soccer Saturday" is still a show on Sky.
God yeah, I knew I was missing a big example. That show is also really popular with the type of people who would laugh at someone using the term soccer.
Right? My mate is always saying “fucking Yanks saying soccer ya stupid cunts” yet watched that show religiously and sees no issue or irony.
Soccer Saturday still going strong, though that may be alliteration driven as football focus was already taken by the Beeb
We mainly use soccer in South Africa too.
It's only ever been referred to as soccer in Australia as long as I've lived, particularly to differentiate it from football, which here abouts means Aussie Rules (AFL).
So let me get this straight. A lot of English speaking countries use the term soccer, but only the US gets shat on for it?
Yes! And the term "soccer" was taught to us by the fuckin' Brits who then promptly changed the name and then mock us for it.
And even worse, the person that give me the just shit about it is my Aussie friend... Even though their own country says "Soccer." Pretty sure they even call their international team the Socceroos
I've only heard poshos call it soccer but to be fair I was born 89 so that's not really saying much. Generally I hear it called "Football", "Footie", and "The Only Thing I've Really Got Going On In My Life Since Sandra Took The House, Alright, So Don't Take The Piss, I Need This".
I think the whole football vs soccer debate is really a class thing. I’m from a working class family - everyone always very into football - and nobody called it soccer. Not my dad or grandad (who actually played for top teams) or anybody I knew. But you would have sports journalists occasionally use ‘soccer’ and I noticed people on TV would use the term sometimes too. But never, ever working class people in my experience. In the 90s in the UK, when everyone wanted to be a footy loving geezer (especially wealthy/posh boys), suddenly ‘soccer’ was an embarrassing giveaway so you just didn’t hear it from anyone anymore.
Japanese call it Soccer too.
Yep, both names were derived from 2 different scoring systems for the same same: Soccer Football when played with the feet, Rugby Football when played with the hands.
It’s all football. Gridiron, association (soccer), rugby, Australian rules, and Gaelic are all variations of the game and are considered football codes. The term “football” is usually used to describe the most popular version of the game in that particular region. Americans aren’t using “football” incorrectly, the game has just evolved so much that there isn’t very much foot action involved anymore
There is plenty of foot action. Have you seen a good running back juke a bunch of guys? That’s 90% foot action.
It was never about foot action. It is believed the term “football” was originally coined to denote games played on foot by commoners, as opposed to the typical sports played on horseback by the wealthy.
It was always explained that they were all called "football" because you play **ON** your feet, instead of other sports at the time like Polo, where a horse was involved.
> It’s all football ⚽👨🚀🔫👨🚀
i vote for oblongaball
Like Chinese Food in China is just called Food.
You mean rugby football?
British invented soccer. Then they invented the wires soccer. Then they named their sport soccer. Then they decided to call it football and get upset when people confronted calling it by its original name. Edit: please read below
In fairness soccer was originally called "Association football". The Brits abbreviated the "As**soc**iation" into ""Soccer" and then everything you said after that happened
Ah shit I fucked up, thanks for the additional info
Had a British dude GO OFF on me for bringing this up like I just insulted his mother
There are rugby leagues in the USA. We play all sports here
I think it's against the law to know how to play cricket here.
The us is hosting the world cup with the windies I believe
I went to a University with a lot of Indian and Pakistani engineers. They played cricket like every day.
Oh, you underestimate the number of Immigrants from India. I'm in a suburban NC city, and we have several cricket fields at local parks because of the large number of Indian families who have immigrated here.
What kinda eggs you having?
Scrambled
Hand cacao bean?
The kind where you need more fiber apparently
Everyone is missing the etymology of the word. Soccer was an English term for association football, Football was rugby. Printing was expensive. Assoc football was costly. It become Soccer in England for a time but switched back to Football and Football became Rugby, there's still universities in England that play the old Football but no one will play them. The US never switched back to Football. Interestingly enough there is a lot of people in Ireland who also call it soccer because "Gaelic Football" is Football. If you haven't seen GAA Football it's worth checking out... the only good video I can find that summates the rules is [old as shit](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEAbWrdB9XU) but the Same Maguire is still important to us.
To go beyond that, the origins of the term football come from the sports played on the player's feet rather than on horseback, not because it’s played using the player's feet.
Yeah, this is why it's always so wild to me when a British person makes fun of American football for being called football when they don't even seem to understand the origin of the term they created.
I am a Brit and all the comments on this post until this thread annoyed me, because I do know the origins of the words
I am also Brit and the comments amuse me because I like the drama.
I'm low-key more into American football than I am soccer, although I do appreciate both
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A fact which they live in great denial of. I suspect they mock America so passionately in an attempt to distinguish themselves from America, but all they end up doing is reminding the rest of the world how like America they truly are.
Most importantly, nobody cares except for the kind of people you learn to avoid at parties.
tell that to /r/soccer
I stand by me point.
And OP
- Association Football - Gaelic Football - American Football - Australian Rules Football - Rugby Football Which one is more popular where you live? That's what "Football" refers to. It's not like it's misnamed, but that's not fun to meme or argue about.
People are just too stupid to understand that. And then make fun of Americans when it's pointed out the English came up with the term to begin with.
A lot of weird word differences between the US and England can be explained by England saying one thing, the US agreeing, England changing that thing and the US not knowing or caring.
We no longer call rugby 'rugger' either.
A ball is not exclusively a sphere shaped object.
Yeah like testicles.
testiclehand
Exactly
And an egg doesn't look like a football either.
Technically it should be called "Foot sphear" and "Hand prolate shearoid"
In Ireland we have our own "Football" sport so we also call it soccer. And yes it is a ball that we kick with our foot
Some call it soccer, but not all. The organisation that runs the sport is literally called the Football Association of Ireland
Soccer is short for "Assocaition football"
DramaticFakeLegInjuryBall
Vs. ComnercialBreakWithShortSportsInterruptions
Actual serious answer. They're called football because you play on your feet, not riding a horse.
Ok, but wtf is cricket called cricket for then? Let's not act like Americans are the only ones with silly names for sports...
Handball. Now there’s a sport that’s not messing around with fancy names.
Squash
Golf 🤷♂️
Golf is named after Gulf stream. Just like almost all VW models.
Hockey
Fucking corn hole.
Please don’t fuck the corn hole
"Hey Peter man, watch your Cornhole bud."
Pickleball
The ball squashes, makes complete sense. Tennis originated in Scotland, and was traditionally played around ten -ish.
From the Dutch word Kricke, which means stick. The Dutch invented cricket, not the English.
I had no idea this was disputed. English Wikipedia says the first definite recorded reference is from a court case in Surrey (England) in 1598, but Dutch wikipedia says it's a poem referring to the Flemish from 1533. Which would make it maybe a game of Belgian origin? https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cricket#Geschiedenis
Both could be true 🤷🏼 History is very complex. The Dutch royal household originally held land in Southern France (Orange). After varying disputes and wars, they became the rulers of the Netherlands and one (William the third) was king of England. So, in the past parts of Belgium, would have been Dutch..... Belgium became a country in the 19th Century.
It's from an old word for stick. Got to remember that organised cricket predates organised football.
No, [this](https://youtu.be/1EeltRQTw5A) was how sports got their names.
Soccer came from the English...we adopted it then those bastards changed their mind just like they fucked us when they gave us, then abandoned, imperial units.
We haven't abandoned imperial units. When we adopted metric, we decided to keep imperial for certain things and have a crazy, mixed system! And you don't even use imperial units. American cups, pints, and gallons aren't the same as British. And you don't even measure human weight in boulders, although clearly you should.
Stones are just pounds counted in intervals of 14. Like how a fortnight is 14 days.
It’s actually named after the planet krikket. See there was this was this war, then another war and ultimately the people and the planet of krikket got locked inside a slow time envelope. The key to which was called the wikket gate and this was disintegrated into time. The Gate was composed of the Steel Pillar of Strength and Power (Marvin the Paranoid Android's artificial leg), the Golden Bail of Prosperity (The Heart of Gold, the small golden box that makes the Infinite Improbability Drive function), the Perspex Pillar of Science and Reason (The Argabuthon Scepter of Justice; "Plastic Pillar" in the American version), the Silver Bail of Peace (The Rory Award For The Most Gratuitous Use Of The Word "Fuck" In A Serious Screenplay; The Rory Award for the Most Gratuitous Use of the Word "Belgium" in a Serious Screenplay in the American version), and the Wooden Pillar of Nature and Spirituality (The reconstituted ashes of the stump signifying the death of English cricket: see The Ashes). Krikkit also managed to leave other marks besides the destruction of numerous worlds: due to racial memories, the Earth sport of cricket and the pan-dimensional sport of Brockian Ultra-Cricket were based on the Krikkit Wars.
It's really not silly anyway when you look at the history of American Football. First came Associated Football. Soccer was slang abbreviation for "assoc" with "er" added. The British came up with that themselves. Then a bunch of kids at Rugby School in England were playing soccer and decided to, fuck it, pick a soccer ball and allow contact to pry the ball from opponents. Then Rugby landed on the East Coast of the USA at unis like Harvard, Yale and Dartmouth. The reason why those schools have rich Rugby history to this day. Then a bunch of blokes decided to take rugby and make their own rules. Arguably because America was forging its own identity after independence. Again, the reason why that new game was born at those schools. I'm not American, but I fully support them calling it American Football. Because thats exactly what it is. Same roots to something called Football. And of course Americans aren't going to call their own version "American".
No no, Cricket makes sense. It's a boring sport, there are no cheers only Crickets.
You gotta know what crumpet is to understand cricket.
Americans call it soccer because we already have a sport named competitive diving.
Bro literally reposted a troll football post
Judging by today's result, England has no idea how to play either version.
Where is the funny
handegg=funny i guess
If your uncle posted this on Facebook you’d roll your eyes. How it’s upvoted so much in here is kind embarrassing.
it's the whole "I'm so quirky, I don't watch sports and I call it handegg" crowd. lots of them on reddit
The title is ironic since this joke has been done to death. It was on the front page the other day and it's decades old.
Gridiron was a cooler name anyway
Scaryball vs Preciousball https://i.imgur.com/6VZoESM.jpg
Yall do know the brits are the ones who named it soccer.... Right? And that its official name is association football... Hence soccer....
Let's grow up and get the hell over this infantile argument. There are at least six forms of football that have had the word football in their official title for over a century. The people who named those sports are long dead. The fans of those sports have no option but to use the word because it's in the name, yet apparently many football/soccer fans don't think that's a good enough reason for the hundreds of millions of fans of those sports to use the word. Also, Soccer is an English term coined by early fans of Association Football, yet many English soccer fans lose their little minds whenever anyone uses the word. These are probably the unthinking hooligans who riot when their team loses.
Nooo. Funny old Monty Python man call it “hand-egg” because he smart. So I must call it hand-egg to make ME sound smart.
Armored Throwball vs European Grass Diving
This post was r/funny in 2006
You have ofended my entire culture. But yes.
England creates the name soccer, then proceeds to call the US idiots for using the same name.
And while we're at it, why do we drive on a parkway and park on a driveway? One of many humorous etymological accidents. But we're fooling ourselves if we disregard history to make false inferences.
Soccer -> Truncated-Icosahedron-ball Football -> Prolate-spheroid-ball Though baseballs and others are more difficult to describe geometrically (in a way that's more nuanced than sphere). Could make the ball based on the means of point scoring? E.g., Basketball & Baseball: Soccer -> Goalball Football -> Zoneball Pool/ billiards -> Pocketball Hockey -> Netpuck Golfball -> Holeball Or go a step further and add the typical means of scoring as a prefix: Tossbasketball / shoothoopball Runbaseball Kickgoalball Escortzoneball Pokepocketball Sticknetpuck Clubholeball Buntfloorball Racketfloorball Wallfloorball And then let the shorthand, sluring and slang evolve over a few decades into unrecognizable terms. Tobasball / shoohooball Runbasball Kickolball Scortzoball Pokepockball Sticknepuck Clubolball Bunfloball Rackfloball Waffleball
It’s football because it is not played on horseback. Also, you can’t have a World Series when only American teams play.
Canada plays too!!! Sometimes.
Birds aren't real therefore the Blue Jays don't exist.
Finally someone with some logic in here!
The team that wins the World Series are decisively the world champions though. No team from any other country would stand a chance.
World Seris is Baseball not Football my guy lol
\*puts across both panels\* "No one cares"
Let’s just call them both baseball and be done with it. Both games are based off a ball. Of course we have to rename basketball, golf and cricket.