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Originally posted by celticcountry
say football, when its actually throw and catch ball?
It's named after the ball - they play with a football, so the game is called football, just like baseball and basketball. Why don't you call your sport soccer ball? 😉

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Originally posted by darvlay
Why pick on the Americans?

Rugby football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football and Canadian football are all absurdly named as well.
What's absurd about Gaelic Football?

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Originally posted by Ragnorak
What's absurd about Gaelic Football?

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Well, I don't know much about the sport, but I've heard that the players prefer to kick each other rather than the ball itself.

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Originally posted by The Plumber
It's named after the ball - they play with a football, so the game is called football, just like baseball and basketball. Why don't you call your sport soccer ball? 😉
Every football code plays with a football, Soccer included. If you Yanks would only call your football code 'Gridiron' when talking around followers of other codes things would be a lot simpler.

Tisk, tisk. Imagine with everyone insisted on referring to their code as footy all the time.

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Originally posted by Starrman
Hardly common, that's an outmoded name generally only used for club names. We realised years ago that it wasn't really a foot game and changed our colloquialisms accordingly 😛.
However, there is the historical aspect to this as well, as the wonderful Mr. Webb-Ellis was playing football when he 'invented' rugby. Rugby Football. I rest my case 😛

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Originally posted by mosquitorespect
However, there is the historical aspect to this as well, as the wonderful Mr. Webb-Ellis was playing football when he 'invented' rugby. Rugby Football. I rest my case 😛
When was this? Tell us more. (I'm too lazy to look it up.)

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Because I'm not as lazy:

http://www.rugbyfootballhistory.com/originsofrugby.htm

Gaelic football rocks! But not as much as Hurling...

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Originally posted by Favs


Gaelic football rocks! But not as much as Hurling...
I don't think alcohol-induced vomiting qualifies as a sport.

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Here's football: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/soccer

Here's American football: http://www.concacaf.com

Here's something else entirely: http://www.nfl.com

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No - the alcohol induced vomiting comes after the match, when you're recovering from all the injuries you get playing....

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Originally posted by Ragnorak
What's absurd about Gaelic Football?

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I give up. What's absurd about Gaelic Football?

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Thanks for clearing it up.

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Originally posted by celticcountry
say football, when its actually throw and catch ball?
You have not been watching well. In a football game we can see the ball get kicked, passed, caught, and carryed. In a soccer game all you do is kick the ball around when it is in play, otherwise it is passed into play. I have only seen one soccer game. For ninety min. (?) all they did was kick the ball around. It was a zero to zero score. Soccer should be called kick ball?

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it is