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It’s called football because it’s primarily played with the feet (unlike that other ”football” game).
It’s called football because people run around on their feet, as opposed to horseback for polo.
You mean handegg
American football has been referred to as just football (in America) longer than football (soccer) was called just football in Britain. It was called association football as a distinct game separate from rugby football and other football games. Football distinguishing it from games played on horseback. Soccer was British slang from association (similarly at the time rugby football has slang term rugger.) Eventually the association part fell out of use but other countries that had developed their own football games tended to still call it soccer. I don’t really care either way, I’ll call it football when talking to people who call it football and soccer with people who call out soccer, I just think the origin of the terms is pretty interesting.
Football distinguishing it from games played on horseback
The problem with this line of argument is that basketball would also be football, as would baseball, cricket, hockey, and even cycling.
This is how I learned the US lost at the World Cup.
They didn’t just lose, their king pissed of the Europeans so much they felt it necessary to stomp them in to the ground
Can they also adopt the metric system like everyone else while they’re at it too?
And also dump Phillips screw heads. They’re godawful.
With that 4-1 whipping USA has to change to metric.
One if the very few YouTubers I forbid my kids to watch. He’s pretty much a summary of what’s rotten in our civilization. Such a piece of shit.
Mr. Beast has always been and will continue to be a huge piece of shit.
I find it funny that he says “full stop” too which is a British, not American phrase.
May not be common, but I’ve heard it in american slang. I think its more an old carry over from telegrams that never quite left our shared language.
Did telegrams use full-stop? They pretty much only used STOP, no?
It seems more likely that your man picked it up from a British influence, like a friend or something.
We should instead go back to calling American football “gridiron.” It sounds cooler.
