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    see, now that makes sense.

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    Why does the name have to make sense to euro ****?

    In America, where football is played in its highest capacity, when you say football, everyone knows immediately what you are talking about.

    Lots of words, titles, names, etc etc don't make sense. it doesn't have to

    What do crickets have to do with the sport of cricket? Are there any rugs used in rugby? How many boxes do you see in the sport of boxing?

    Why you so desperate?

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    Well I call 'soccer' football too and american football to differentiate unless I am talking to an american about football.

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    Default Re: "Football" or "Handegg" ?

    Well, Australians call this football:



    and New Zealanders call this football:




    Both balls are also shaped liked eggs and both sports are the most popular in each country, so it sounds to me like the OP is just another butthurt Euro who is being selective and cant handle the realities of America and how it relates to the world.

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    Getting Naked

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    those are some fair replies above... good answers IMO.


    @patrick chewing,
    mike godwin would be very pleased with you!


    @jtotheizzo,
    sounds like you

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    As far as I know New Zealanders call it Rugby just like everyone else.

    I think it's a pointless debate r.e. original post, but boy it does get you Americans angry.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ukballer
    As far as I know New Zealanders call it Rugby just like everyone else.

    I think it's a pointless debate r.e. original post, but boy it does get you Americans angry.
    And why exactly is it called Rugby anyway, when the game doesn't even use a rug? It should be called "Grassby" if you wanna be technical.

    Damn, I never thought about it before, but some sports have some f@cked up names.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Nevaeh
    And why exactly is it called Rugby anyway, when the game doesn't even use a rug? It should be called "Grassby" if you wanna be technical.

    Damn, I never thought about it before, but some sports have some f@cked up names.

    Who knows? It's why this is a never ending debate with all sports.

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    interesting... seems that rugby was named after rugby school around 1830.

    looks like american football is a direct descendent of rugby... so in yet another way, nothing to do with football.

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    Why isn't tennis called tennisball or volleyball or racquetball?
    Why isn't golf called golfball or clubball or holeball or cupball or teeball?
    Why isn't bowling called bowlingball or laneball or pinball or rollball?
    Why isn't baseball called batball or mittball or pitchball or hitball?
    Why isn't volleyball called spikeball or handball or netball?

    The answer is who cares

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    it's hard to care too much either way, but i do think
    the world owned "futbol" before the americans owned the word "football."

    maybe i'm wrong... does anybody know for sure?

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    Quote Originally Posted by kNicKz
    Germans taking the US to the moon.

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    Quote Originally Posted by gigantes
    it's hard to care too much either way, but i do think
    the world owned "futbol" before the americans owned the word "football."

    maybe i'm wrong... does anybody know for sure?
    the world owned a lot of things before americans showed up. now americans own a lot of things.

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