"Football" or "Handegg" ?

[Andrei89]

[deja vu]

They should just call it American rugby.

It's similar to rugby anyway.

[iamgine]

Yeap American Rugby sounds nice.

But whatever, not important at all.

[deja vu]

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[Jasi]

Just for the records:

Why isn't tennis called tennisball or volleyball or racquetball?

From the French "tenez!" meaning "take it!", which was the warning that the serving player was about to serve.

Why isn't golf called golfball or clubball or holeball or cupball or teeball?

From the Old Dutch "Kolf" meaning "club".

Why isn't bowling called bowlingball or laneball or pinball or rollball?

Well the verb is to bowl, so it's bowling

Why isn't baseball called batball or mittball or pitchball or hitball?

It's about hitting balls and reaching bases.

Why isn't volleyball called spikeball or handball or netball?

You only can play the ball while airborne.



Funnily enough, American football is so named because it actually was a variant of (association) football, which then evolved to something very distant from it and closer to rugby.

[Akrazotile]

oh shit


perfect

[KingBeasley08]

Real talk, USA does what it wants. We call it football cause we don't give a fck. Anyway, after the World Cup, it's gonna be boring. Can't wait for football season.

[Akrazotile]

Real talk, USA does what it wants. We call it football cause we don't give a fck. Anyway, after the World Cup, it's gonna be boring. Can't wait for football season.

America so fukcing alpha

[CelticBaller]

only betas(eurofags) stress over shit like this

[gigantes]

only betas(eurofags) stress over shit like this

who's stressing?

besides, what if it's, like... some english-speakers wondering how an english term came to mean something so different than what it describes? you know... the same way we wonder about lots of other funny little things in life.


are you guys saying that mighty american football is too sacred for the same treatment? sounds a bit... uptight to me.

[Rubio2Gasol]

Hipster USA at it again

[Lamar Doom]

f*ck the metric system too

[jstern]

From the pictures it looks to me that it's called football because it's long like a foot, and not round like a ball.

[kNIOKAS]

Real talk, USA does what it wants. We call it football cause we don't give a fck. Anyway, after the World Cup, it's gonna be boring. Can't wait for football season.

Americans happily embracing their identity of a bully, and call it being alpha.
Somebody has problems.

[Nick Young]

Americans happily embracing their identity of a bully, and call it being alpha.
Somebody has problems.

Your beta European inferiority complex is showing, dawg.

USA is ALPHA AS PHUCK. Europe is like the whiny little emo kid with a beret who hangs out under the bleachers at lunch time and bitches and moans to all the other little emos about how stupid the rest of the world is.