Comment on !football@sopuli.xyz , for football fans (the one where you touch ball wit your foot)
CombatWombatEsq@lemmy.world 2 months agoGreat! Let’s just use “football” as an umbrella term for all games played on foot, like soccer, rugby, and gridiron. I’ll call “American football” and you’ll call “European football” soccer and no-one will be confused.
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
There goes baseball, handball, volleyball, and pretty much every other game involving balls that isn’t played in wheelchairs.
Blaze@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Hey,
Small advice: don’t feed the troll
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Oh well. He didn’t really have a leg to stand on, so I was just taking some cheap shots at the Americans ☺️
Blaze@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
That person also qualified a 20 years old player as a “child” piefed.zip/post/511068
Yeah, that’s the pro I guess!
CombatWombatEsq@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I feel like you’re starting to understand why saying soccer should be called football, a term denoting a game played on foot, is needlessly confusing and underspecified, whereas soccer, which is very specific and unambiguous, is the much superior term.
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
‘football’ as a name has been around for centuries with no confusion, until American exceptionalism led to them inventing their own version of the game. The only confusion today is coming from the US. Your proposed change however, is the equivalent of this:
imgs.xkcd.com/comics/standards.png
It would not do anything except make the situation even more complicated.
CombatWombatEsq@lemmy.world 2 months ago
How certain are you about that? Looks to me like the term football is about 150 years old, and when it was introduced, gridiron and soccer were still the same sport: books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=football&ye…