Comment on My feelings on the Super Bowl

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• YellaLeber@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  One sport is called association football, the other is called American or gridiron football. Both sports typically drop the first word.

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  • ptu@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Then there’s rugby from which american football originated

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• merc@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  It’s called football because it’s played on foot, as opposed to polo or other sports that were popular at the time when the rules for football were first being written down.

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