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Originally posted by Diogenes Of Pumpkintown:
Football is a real sport played mostly in the United States. "Football", aka Soccer, is something else entirely, a wannabe "sport" played by countries that can't compete in real events.
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"Football" is the game that you Americans call "Soccer". It was named so long before American Football was invented, you just couldn't think of a name for it so knicked football(why they didn't call it handball I don't know as most of the time the ball is carried)! As for a wannabe sport, most of us nations have our own version of American Football called rugby but because the rest of the world is full of real men we don't have to wear a full suit of armour to play it or have a little rest every other minute! Soccer also has considerably greater TV audiences and gate recipts wordlwide then American football could ever dream of. So there!