WarMachine
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Just wanna know if a lot of football players are out there. And, if you do, post which team.
AlexKall said:But the main scean is football (soccer)
AussieNick said:I play rugby. Nobody plays Grid Iron here
thats what it should be renamed to... Grid Iron
Because American Football is an offshoot of Rugby, and in the early 19th century, both of the games which later became Soccer and Rugby, were called Football. :shock:Kenty said:AlexKall said:But the main scean is football (soccer)
Yeah- REAL football. I've never understood why American football is called "football"
You have your hands on the ball... :?
redcoat said:Because American Football is an offshoot of Rugby, and in the early 19th century, both of the games which later became Soccer and Rugby, were called Football. :shock:Kenty said:AlexKall said:But the main scean is football (soccer)
Yeah- REAL football. I've never understood why American football is called "football"
You have your hands on the ball... :?
In the mid 19th with the formal adoption of rules by both games,and in an effort to stop the confusion, the game which became rugby was give the name of Rugby Football, and the game which became Soccer was known as Association Football.
But in the US when the use of formal rules came into being for the type of rugby style football they played, there was no need to differentiate, so it kept its original name.
ps, true die-hard rugby fans in Britain still refer to their game as 'football' and call the other game Soccer, never 'football'.
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