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yeah there are quite a few sports claiming to involve feet but dont really do they
How much of an NFL game actually involves kicking the ball. How on earth did they get the word football into its name? As for Rugby “football” or aussie rules “football” they are hardly any better.
So why do people find the need to change the only real game of football’s name and call it soccer!!
Football turns to soccer in countries where there is a game already dominating the phrase.
However, even there what we are seeing down under in Australia and New Zealand is that as the sport grows they are re-establishing the football name.
Australia’s national body is now the FFA (Football Federation of Australia), New Zealand now have the NZFA and actually run the NZFC (New Zealand Football Championship) ….
These are both relatively recent events (last five years) and grabbing the mindspace of the football name back has actually been hugely successful in the media.
The AFL Aussie Rules and NFL rugby league is still affectionately called footy (almost as a habit rolling off the tounge) but I’m seeing the term Aussie Rules used more and more as the A-League grabs the “football” space.
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The US and Canada have a long way to go in that regard – and actually seem happy to stay in the “Soccer” space. I guess the existing “football” domination is just too strong.
Fantastic Paul
great to hear football getting back on top of soccer in Australia. Hopefully one day we wont hear the word soccer much at all!I guess that US football started based on rugby (look a the ball) and when it first started, people didn’t pass the ball. You ran the ball or drop kicked it to try to score a goal or like in Canadian ball, you can kick/punt the ball back to the other team at any point.
So my thinking is that because it tended to kick more than rugby, it became football. These days people pass all the time and kick much less.
In the early days of basketball there was a jump ball after every basket. The it was at the start of the first and second halves and for a “held” (used to be called “jump ball”) ball. Today there is just 1 tip off at the start of the game, then instead of jumping the ball, they award a throw in, rotating from one team to another. This has made defense harder to play, since tying up the ball when the possesion goes to the other team, just slows things up
from wiki answers:
North America style football didn’t used to allow the “forward pass” and much more of the play involved foot work, such as the “drop kick” and the running punt kick. In the first rules, only the ” side pass” was allowed, as long as the two players were side by side, with no forward motion of the ball, similar to rugby rules. The Canadian Football League ( CFL ) still allows a drop kick to score a field goal, and also has a thing called a “rouge” when the kicker is able to kick the ball thru the end zone, so it lands out of play , it is worth 2 points. Both the NFL and the CFL still have the drop-kick available as a weapon – on the point-after-touchdown, or from the field for 3 points. The “rouge” is worth a single point here in Canada.
Richard (OLBG);171620 wrote:So why do people find the need to change the only real game of football’s name and call it soccer!!Don’t forget their is also Gaelic Football they reckon it pre-dates both rugby and football. It was also the basis of Aussie Rules Football as well.
I believe that the term ‘Soccer’ comes from the letters S,O,C at the start of AsSOCiation Football, which is what the game was originally called
It’s especially hard for bookies who offer both markets to promote it. I believe the UK footy gang get quiet offended when you call the beautiful game soccer
The origin of the confusion is that football (ie: any game that involved kicking a ball) was played in England for about 300 years before anyone thought to put down a set of rules, define how many players on a team, whether it was an offence to pick up the ball and carry it and all that kind of thing.
Because of this, all these games – Aussie Rules, Gridiron, soccer, rugby, etc – are the same game and all have equal claim to the name football.
After all, Aussie Rules football has been played since the mid-1850s which was around the same time as many of the laws of soccer were introduced (free kicks, etc.)
That having been said, I hate the term soccer and think that all other forms of football should have to be spelled out in full; ie: rugby football, Gridiron football, etc.
