Everything you Really should Know about Soccer Taking part in

Originally posted by Suzianne
I got a chuckle from this...

From the website dictionary.com:

"Word Origin and History for Spam
spam
n.
proprietary name registered by Geo. A. Hormel & Co. in U.S., 1937; probably a conflation of spiced ham. Soon extended to other kinds of canned meat. In the sense of "Internet junk mail" it was coined by Usenet users after March 31, 1993, when Use ...[text shortened]... us" (beloved by many intellectual geeks) where a restaurant's menu items all devolve into spam."

Even when I was a meat eater I could never bring myself to eat spam.

Originally posted by moonbus
But the ball doesn't look anything like a foot.

It doesn't look like a sock either

Originally posted by phil3000
It doesn't look like a sock either

I believe originally Americans played football in their socks (hence the colloquial 'soccer' ).

They were embarrassed apparently about how badly they played the game and thought boots were too noisy and might attract onlookers.

Originally posted by Ghost of a Duke
I believe originally Americans played football in their socks (hence the colloquial 'soccer' ).

They were embarrassed apparently about how badly they played the game and thought boots were too noisy and might attract onlookers.

It was known in the U.S. as association football, then abbreviated as "Assoc. Football" in newspaper listings, and eventually reduced to soc(cer).

Originally posted by HandyAndy
It was known in the U.S. as association football, then abbreviated as "Assoc. Football" in newspaper listings, and eventually reduced to soc(cer).

I looked this up and you're exactly right. I had no idea that was the etymology of the word.

Originally posted by Suzianne
I looked this up and you're exactly right. I had no idea that was the etymology of the word.

How about the Brits? They think it's football.

Originally posted by HandyAndy
How about the Brits? They think it's football.

I'm pretty sure we stopped caring what they thought a couple hundred years ago.

Originally posted by Ghost of a Duke
I believe originally Americans played football in their socks (hence the colloquial 'soccer' ).

They were embarrassed apparently about how badly they played the game and thought boots were too noisy and might attract onlookers.

The only people that should be embarrassed are the England football team .

-Removed-

Woy's ok ,he's pocketed 3.5million a year and still has his job driving lady Penelope to posh dos .
The F.A still know f.a .