So not handegg?
I’m afraid not
the one where you touch ball with your foot
Is there any other kind? :)
Hands, tongue, boobs… Oh wait, wrong balls
Rugby involves foot touching the ball. Sometimes.
Yay! … oh. Aww.
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If you called gridiron gridiron instead of football no one would have to clarify either.
There’s about 3.1 billion¹ more fans of football (or football association) than of gridiron (or gridiron football, or American football, or handegg), so it’s evident to everyone except Americans which one is the default.
(Not to mention one is an entertaining sport while the other is an ad delivery system built around watching people whose only allowed path to education is to enslave themselves to corporations suffer permanent brain injuries).
1.— Using the American puny billion here (a thousand million) instead of the proper one (a million million) because like so many other harmful or inferior stuff you Americans have managed to force it into an international standard and would complain I was being confusing if I used the proper word.
TIL the name gridiron
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Let’s just use “football” as an umbrella term for all games played on foot
There goes baseball, handball, volleyball, and pretty much every other game involving balls that isn’t played in wheelchairs.
Hey,
Small advice: don’t feed the troll
Oh well. He didn’t really have a leg to stand on, so I was just taking some cheap shots at the Americans ☺️
And hey, it keeps your announcement post up in the active feed!
That person also qualified a 20 years old player as a “child” https://piefed.zip/post/511068
Yeah, that’s the pro I guess!
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‘football’ as a name has been around for centuries with no confusion, until American exceptionalism led to them inventing their own version of the game. The only confusion today is coming from the US. Your proposed change however, is the equivalent of this:
It would not do anything except make the situation even more complicated.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_(word)
It’s been around for almost a millennia.
And I’m not proposing a new standard, I’m continuing use of a standard introduced by working class Brits in the early 20th century, so that xkcd really doesn’t apply at all.
It means something specific TODAY. You’re suggesting to have it mean something new and different. It doesn’t matter if that meaning was used a century ago, that’s not what the comic is referencing.
Nobody calls in soccer in Europe, football perfectly represents what the game is ab
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And !politics@lemmy.world should be for world politics rather than only “US politics”
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There is football and there is american football. Nothing confusing about it.
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