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amarthar:
Also that ball doesn't look like a ball at all.
wiggy:
I'm 110% with you guys. Football makes no sense. Should call it time out ball, or maybe penalty ball, since those two things seem to take up 2/3 of the time spent in a game.
Arseen:
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--- Quote from: Dr.Agon on January 13, 2013, 08:24:20 PM ---technically "soccer" is the correct term...
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Technically soccer is a correct term. Not a popular one outside the US by the way...
Personally, american football should be called american rugby to avoid confusions with "real" football, but probably that's just me...
I mean, c'mon, a player throwing a football and not using its feet is the main star of the show and the game is not called handball.
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--- Quote from: amarthar on January 14, 2013, 06:23:06 AM ---Also that ball doesn't look like a ball at all.
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--- Quote from: wiggy on January 14, 2013, 07:50:32 AM ---I'm 110% with you guys. Football makes no sense. Should call it time out ball, or maybe penalty ball, since those two things seem to take up 2/3 of the time spent in a game.
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Abso-freaking-lutly I agree with these 3.
WolfAlmighty:
--- Quote from: wiggy on January 14, 2013, 07:50:32 AM ---I'm 110% with you guys. Football makes no sense. Should call it time out ball, or maybe penalty ball, since those two things seem to take up 2/3 of the time spent in a game.
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Are we talking gridiron or hardwood here? ;D
Dr.Agon:
--- Quote from: pumanchero on January 14, 2013, 02:57:59 AM ---I mean, c'mon, a player throwing a football and not using its feet is the main star of the show and the game is not called handball...
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but the same thing happens in Rugby, which is also called Rugby Football, (governing body the RFU "Rugby Football Union"),(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saracens_F.C.,http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlequin_F.C., also in team names)
so maybe thats how it (gridiron) came to be know as football?
"hey, if those crazy British can call a game football and there's hardly any foot/ball contact in it, why cant we call our sport football?"