Not offended at all. Americans are terrible about appropriating other people's stuff and calling it our own.
We're like christians that way.

Soccer: When baseball is just too damned exciting.

Because Amoured Hand Egg With Ad Breaks sounds silly. That being said, I'm from Australia, where we call it soccer, and regards it as a fine sport for children, the ladies and recent immigrants who can't be expected to know better. But for grown men?

The term referring to a game played by moving a ball by kicking is thought to be a false etymology, with the word originally referring to ball games played on foot (as opposed to a game played on horses such as polo). In fact, documents referring to early games in England called "foot-ball" suggest that under at least some rule sets the ball could be carried or thrown but not kicked.

In the mid-nineteenth century, football rules were codified into what we now consider several different games: rugby (codified in 1845), association football (codified in 1863), and American/gridiron football (first game played in 1869, down & distance rules added in 1882).

I'm not into sports at all. I will say this about soccer, when they have the world cup.....they actually include the world. Unlike the baseball World Series which is basically America and a couple Canadian teams.

Well, I understand from Wikipedia that they both evolved from English school games. Ours used to be called rugby football until the “rugby” got dropped.

Anyway, we apologize and will take your criticism under consideration. It might be difficult to get 325 million people to change but I’ll see what I can do.

I always thought that was as little off myself.

American football evolved from "world" football by way of rugby, and a hundred and more years ago, the latter had a variety of varying rules, that may or may not have included rules for running with the ball, depending on the organizations that played it; it was probably at least a bit different back then than it is now. So whether its Association rules, where the name soccer comes from, American rules, Canadien rules, Australian rule, they all have a right to the use of the name. I'll grant the rugby people did have the good sense to adopt a distinct nsme, or it would also still be called football.

I find both of them equally boring, so no offense taken?

I agree. Also, American football is really boring.

You can dislike it all you want, we don't really care. It will be NFL football forever.......

Can I have some of these princess problems you seem to have ? LOL

I call them both stupid.

Oh fucking well. Better get over it cause we mericans ain't changing ?

ya, we pretty much do the same thing to any term, "American" etc, bc after all, it's all about US!

Ironically, the term "soccer" most likely comes from England (Oxford "-er" slang shortening of association football" ).

This was a recent discussion on NPR.

[npr.org]

We may have a common language, but quite often with nouns especially, words have different meanings either side of the Atlantic,

I feel the same way. Americans call falling into a pool of water "diving", when your footballers are so much better at it, because they don't need the safety net of water to dive

(Yeah, don't get me stated on soccer)

its a common argument that they are wrong to call their sport football for the reason you give