DO YOU LIKE SOCCER?

[Getmegreek]

FOR SOME REASON, PEOPLE IN AMERICA ONLY WATCH BASKETBALL AND FOOTBALL WHICH IS IRONIC

[Devsman]

Nah. But I don't watch baseball or basketball either. Never saw the point. I used to like to play as a kid, even though I was terrible. But I mean, playing was the point. Why would I wanna watch?

If I'm gonna watch something, it's gonna have a writer.

[TWPanda77]

No, I am not interested in football. It is a mystery for me why adults cry about this sport and use words like drama to describe games. It just looks like people chasing a ball around a field to me.

[UmmUmBurst]

Used to tend goal and I got a few red cards over the years while in goal lmao. I'm really good at cutting off angles of attack during shots and I got accused of charging or w/e every 10th game or so.

I try watching it and it's just too much new info. I'm too out of touch and there are too many players.

[BRM62C]

Growing up i was never into soccer, i NEVER seen the hype, but recently i've put time into exploring the game and the beauty of it and i've grown fond of it. Seen the world cup for the first time this year, it was super exciting. I don't blame people for not liking soccer though, it's not the kind of sport to have me at the edge of my seat constantly, but it's great.

As for the football vs soccer name debate, i feel the anger around the terms football and soccer is childish and egotistical. Americans already culturally have football so it's only logical that the other football must be generally differentiated somehow. The people who say "soccer" didn't make the name, they just were raised with that term around them. There's so much more things in the world to worry about than that. The football police will be busy for eternity, and don't get paid for it either. Tragic.

[KalGimpa]

like most sports, i enjoy the highlights.

i do not go out of my way to see them, but enjoy them when they do show up

[Shodan 2.0]

You actually do play (American) football with your foot (and I'm not just talking about walking / running), yet people constantly spread the myth that it's called football for no reason at all. Just another myth from self-proclaimed educated people who constantly call Americans ignorant. I'm in Europe, I can name and find all 50 states and all their capitals on a map while pretty much everyone here wouldn't even recognize at least half of the states' names. Some people in my high school thought Prague was in Switzerland, had no idea "what" Stockholm even was and that kind of stuff. But no, this is only an American thing, Europeans know everything and Americans can't even find Europe on a map... Right.

[BRM62C]

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Growing up i was never into soccer, i NEVER seen the hype, but recently i've put time into exploring the game and the beauty of it and i've grown fond of it. Seen the world cup for the first time this year, it was super exciting. I don't blame people for not liking soccer though, it's not the kind of sport to have me at the edge of my seat constantly, but it's great.

As for the football vs soccer name debate, i feel the anger around the terms football and soccer is childish and egotistical. Americans already culturally have football so it's only logical that the other football must be generally differentiated somehow. The people who say "soccer" didn't make the name, they just were raised with that term around them. There's so much more things in the world to worry about than that. The football police will be busy for eternity, and don't get paid for it either. Tragic.

By that logic, Americans should not get angry if European call, their gridiron for Throwball

I rather that we use their current terms.
Football and American Football

I'm not gonna argue with you at all, if that's what you wanna call it, i fully support that. It's not part of your culture so i can understand the lack of cogitation towards the sport. I'm too grown to worry about a man calling football throwball.

I understand the 'American Football' term but many still use the terms football and soccer due to upbringing and familiarity. The realization a more fair term doesn't beat familiarity. We all show this trait when it comes to something, but the last thing i will do is tell someone else what to think or shame them for that.

[BRM62C]

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I'm not gonna argue with you at all, if that's what you wanna call it, i fully support that. It's not part of your culture so i can understand the lack of cogitation towards the sport. I'm too grown to worry about a man calling football throwball.

I understand the 'American Football' term but many still use the term soccer due to upbringing and familiarity. The realization a more fair term doesn't beat familiarity. We all show this trait when it comes to something, but the last thing i will do is tell someone else what to think or shame them for that.

But Gridiron is its American name, not mine.

Not entirely true. It's generally known as football in America.

[AdahnGorion]

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But Gridiron is its American name, not mine.

Not entirely true. It's generally known as football in America.

It is correctly named Gridiron Football
Its been like that for ages and even when I played games back in the 90´s most games about the sport was actually called that.. Gridiron

The reason why its called gridiron Football is because of the obvious vertical yard lines, that marks the rectangular field.
If you actually wanted to be just as correct, you could use the North American Football (because lets be honest here, it is not American football, its North American)

The organization is also called IFAF for a reason (International Federation of American Football) they don´t have claims to the Football name in its solo form. One thing I will give gridiron is that is it much closer to the roots of the sport genre (Rugby) and hence have more in common with that.

There is actually also a version called Canadian football.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZBRmdPqt78


When people use the word soccer, they often do so as a negative angle and that is why people dislike the termology (just like Throwball, that should not be used for North American Football)

[BRM62C]

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Not entirely true. It's generally known as football in America.

It is correctly named Gridiron Football
Its been like that for ages and even when I played games back in the 90´s most games about the sport was actually called that.. Gridiron

The reason why its called gridiron Football is because of the obvious vertical yard lines, that marks the rectangular field.
If you actually wanted to be just as correct, you could use the North American Football (because lets be honest here, it is not American football, its North American)

The organization is also called IFAF for a reason (International Federation of American Football) they don´t have claims to the Football name in its solo form. One thing I will give gridiron is that is it much closer to the roots of the sport genre (Rugby) and hence have more in common with that.

There is actually also a version called Canadian football.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZBRmdPqt78


When people use the word soccer, they often do so as a negative angle and that is why people dislike the termology (just like Throwball, that should not be used for North American Football)

I can assure that there's a low amount of people who refer to american football as gridiron football. It is indeed gridiron football, you are right, but what i meant by it not being entirely true was your claim that it's the american name. The term gridiron football is not universally known or spoken by americans besides rarely being brought up by football commentators, so it's not culturally american to call it gridiron football. It's merely a technical term. It is the correct term to describe the sport though. I don't watch canadian football and i'm not really a technical person as you can tell from my original post so yeah that's not a concern for me to call it north american football for the sake of being correct.

I've never heard of the IFAF, but i have heard of the NFL which stands for the National Football League which is the most popular organization for american football which further proves my point of the cultural aspect.

As for the people who use soccer to belittle the sport, i do completely understand how you could be a little put off by the term, but truthfully that's what kids are taught to call football/soccer, it starts in the schools honestly. But yeah those guys are losers.

[=(^ ^)=]

chopprXQ の投稿を引用：

Darkie の投稿を引用：

It is correctly named Gridiron Football
Its been like that for ages and even when I played games back in the 90´s most games about the sport was actually called that.. Gridiron

The reason why its called gridiron Football is because of the obvious vertical yard lines, that marks the rectangular field.
If you actually wanted to be just as correct, you could use the North American Football (because lets be honest here, it is not American football, its North American)

The organization is also called IFAF for a reason (International Federation of American Football) they don´t have claims to the Football name in its solo form. One thing I will give gridiron is that is it much closer to the roots of the sport genre (Rugby) and hence have more in common with that.

There is actually also a version called Canadian football.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZBRmdPqt78


When people use the word soccer, they often do so as a negative angle and that is why people dislike the termology (just like Throwball, that should not be used for North American Football)

I can assure that there's a low amount of people who refer to american football as gridiron football. It is indeed gridiron football, you are right, but what i meant by it not being entirely true was your claim that it's the american name. The term gridiron football is not universally known or spoken by americans besides rarely being brought up by football commentators, so it's not culturally american to call it gridiron football. It's merely a technical term. It is the correct term to describe the sport though. I don't watch canadian football and i'm not really a technical person as you can tell from my original post so yeah that's not a concern for me to call it north american football for the sake of being correct.

I've never heard of the IFAF, but i have heard of the NFL which stands for the National Football League which is the most popular organization for american football which further proves my point of the cultural aspect.

As for the people who use soccer to belittle the sport, i do completely understand how you could be a little put off by the term, but truthfully that's how kids are taught, it starts in the schools honestly. But yeah those guys are losers.

I think you should start to use the term football for what you call soccer, and American football you should rename it. The whole world is playing football and you are still in your bubble. Next WC will be in America (Canada-Mexico-USA) and a part for Mexico you have no team.

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No watching or playing soccer is boring.

[BRM62C]

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I can assure that there's a low amount of people who refer to american football as gridiron football. It is indeed gridiron football, you are right, but what i meant by it not being entirely true was your claim that it's the american name. The term gridiron football is not universally known or spoken by americans besides rarely being brought up by football commentators, so it's not culturally american to call it gridiron football. It's merely a technical term. It is the correct term to describe the sport though. I don't watch canadian football and i'm not really a technical person as you can tell from my original post so yeah that's not a concern for me to call it north american football for the sake of being correct.

I've never heard of the IFAF, but i have heard of the NFL which stands for the National Football League which is the most popular organization for american football which further proves my point of the cultural aspect.

As for the people who use soccer to belittle the sport, i do completely understand how you could be a little put off by the term, but truthfully that's how kids are taught, it starts in the schools honestly. But yeah those guys are losers.

I think you should start to use football for what you call soccer, and American football you should rename it. The whole world is playing football and you are still in your bubble. Next WC will be in America (Canada-Mexico-USA) and a part for Mexico you have no team.

I'm staying in my bubble. It's truly not the end of the world for me to call football soccer.

[Tsubame ⭐]

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I can assure that there's a low amount of people who refer to american football as gridiron football. It is indeed gridiron football, you are right, but what i meant by it not being entirely true was your claim that it's the american name. The term gridiron football is not universally known or spoken by americans besides rarely being brought up by football commentators, so it's not culturally american to call it gridiron football. It's merely a technical term. It is the correct term to describe the sport though. I don't watch canadian football and i'm not really a technical person as you can tell from my original post so yeah that's not a concern for me to call it north american football for the sake of being correct.

I've never heard of the IFAF, but i have heard of the NFL which stands for the National Football League which is the most popular organization for american football which further proves my point of the cultural aspect.

As for the people who use soccer to belittle the sport, i do completely understand how you could be a little put off by the term, but truthfully that's how kids are taught, it starts in the schools honestly. But yeah those guys are losers.

I think you should start to use the term football for what you call soccer, and American football you should rename it. The whole world is playing football and you are still in your bubble. Next WC will be in America (Canada-Mexico-USA) and a part for Mexico you have no team.

Never going to happen. For starters, American Football is by far the most popular sport in the US. It is less so in Canada, but besides American influence, Canada also has its own version (very similar, but still) of football, and in any case, the most popular sport is ice hockey instead. Soccer has a much smaller viewship in both countries, and is so far popularly largely considered a youth (and often, stereotypically, for girls) sport in both.

Nothing wrong with that (besides the sport's stereotype of being for girls), as NA sports cultural norm is very different from Europe. More violence in the field - and ironically, much better behaved spectators (hooliganism is a thing in Europe and Latin America).

Also, not the entire world outside NA calls soccer "football". Australia and New Zealand call it soccer (Australia has their own version of gridiron football), as does Japan and southernmost countries in Africa.

Italy does not even use either, they call it "Calcio", as do a number of other countries that have their own local name for it.

[=(^ ^)=]

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=(^ ^)= の投稿を引用：

I think you should start to use the term football for what you call soccer, and American football you should rename it. The whole world is playing football and you are still in your bubble. Next WC will be in America (Canada-Mexico-USA) and a part for Mexico you have no team.

Never going to happen. For starters, American Football is by far the most popular sport in the US. It is less so in Canada, but besides American influence, Canada also has its own version (very similar, but still) of football, and in any case, the most popular sport is ice hockey instead. Soccer has a much smaller viewship in both countries, and is so far popularly largely considered a youth (and often, stereotypically, for girls) sport in both.

Nothing wrong with that (besides the sport's stereotype of being for girls), as NA sports cultural norm is very different from Europe. More violence in the field - and ironically, much better behaved spectators (hooliganism is a thing in Europe and Latin America).

Also, not the entire world outside NA calls soccer "football". Australia and New Zealand call it soccer (Australia has their own version of gridiron football), as does Japan and southernmost countries in Africa.

Italy does not even use either, they call it "Calcio", as do a number of other countries that have their own local name for it.

Calcio means "kick". So the closest word in English is actually football. You call it football and you are holding it with your hands.