‘Football’ or ‘soccer’

[Randy]

‘Football’ or ‘soccer’ - Which word is best?

Should America change the name of their sport called football?

 

[Nebulous]

Maybe we should just call it "American Football" here too so we don't sound so pompous.

 

[PGen98]

Football. End of discussion

 

[PGen98]

Maybe we should just call it "American Football" here too so we don't sound so pompous.

Just call it handegg and get the memes over with

 

[Nebulous]

Just call it handegg and get the memes over with

Lol, there you go!

 

[PGen98]

Lol, there you go!

There's always Sarcastaball!

 

[Nebulous]

 

[PGen98]

Such a great episode

 

[Webster]

Association Football / Useful Notes - TV Tropes

Association Football is the most popular sport in the world. It's more commonly known as just Football, although, in some parts of the English-speaking world, particularly North America, it's referred to as Soccer, a word that's often used to …

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(although derided in the UK as a crass Americanism, the word "Soccer" is in fact of British origin — it's an abbreviation of "asSOCiation" that was coined to distinguish the code from Rugby Football, aka "Rugger", making it one of the large number of British slang words ending in "-er"; Wikipedia has an entire article on the subject)

 

[PGen98]

Yeah, true fans know it's a British word, but it's forbidden. It was basically cast aside almost as quickly as it was introduced, thankfully.

 

[Vaeve]

Soccer. It's yet another sign of entitlement we Americans are going to subject you fuckers to forever.

 

[PGen98]

Soccer. It's yet another sign of entitlement we Americans are going to subject you fuckers to forever.

No, you and the Aussies can keep it, the rest of the world'll keep football

 

[Vaeve]

No, you and the Aussies can keep it, the rest of the world'll keep football

No, that's not what I meant, we'll keep using the word Soccer and pissing y'all forever.

 

[Webster]

No, that's not what I meant, we'll keep using the word Soccer and pissing y'all forever.

 

[PGen98]

No, that's not what I meant, we'll keep using the word Soccer and pissing y'all forever.

Please don't piss me, I'd prefer not to be expelled from someone's urinary tract

 

[Vaeve]

Please don't piss me, I'd prefer not to be expelled from someone's urinary tract

Bruh I'm imagining that now

 

[PGen98]

Bruh I'm imagining that now

Well, you said it

 

[Nebulous]

 

[PGen98]

 

[Webster]

Please don't piss me, I'd prefer not to be expelled from someone's urinary tract