Soccer: goalkeepers, throw-ins, grabbing each other's shorts, shirts, and body parts on corner kicks...
Football: Placekicking, punting, kickoffs, and I'm pretty sure one needs his feet in order to run, set up to block, or drive through a tackle.
Football: Placekicking, punting, kickoffs, and I'm pretty sure one needs his feet in order to run, set up to block, or drive through a tackle.
Joel's argument about how kicking (i.e. using one's feet) used to be much more important in American football might have some validity, but in the sports as they exist currently, it's really a stretch to claim "football" is a remotely accurate description of American football.
So, soccer is actually a British term- who knew?
02/07/2010 04:09:26 AM
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That doesn't change the fact that calling a game played with hands and an oval "football" is silly *NM*
02/07/2010 07:22:33 AM
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Wait, so "spherical" is implicit in the term "football"?
02/07/2010 09:14:07 AM
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You must have missed the "ball" part. You know, round object?
02/07/2010 09:38:15 AM
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The objec used in rugby is called a ball.
02/07/2010 12:35:17 PM
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Soccer players use their hands and football players use their feet
03/07/2010 12:57:18 AM
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That's really nitpicking and you know it.
03/07/2010 01:41:31 AM
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Before the forward pass became prominent, kicking dominated the game
03/07/2010 02:16:42 AM
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Association football, rugby football, aussie rules football, american football, gaelic football, etc
02/07/2010 09:57:26 AM
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Yes but only upper class rugger buggers use it
02/07/2010 11:32:33 AM
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You can't be snide about being working class and upper class in the same thread
*NM*
02/07/2010 12:52:50 PM
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Two words:
02/07/2010 02:34:25 PM
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Okay, to be serious
02/07/2010 02:55:13 PM
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