What's everyone up to right now?

[pocaracas]

Football is a collection of sports that were played with a ball and on foot.
From it come British rugby, Australian rugby, American football and "football association". The last one is commonly known as soccer or just football.

[emjay]

Football is a collection of sports that were played with a ball and on foot.
From it come British rugby, Australian rugby, American football and "football association". The last one is commonly known as soccer or just football.

I guess that makes more sense if it's on foot rather than with foot (well feet)... that would allow Rugby type games to be called football. I've never heard that explanation before, thanks

[pocaracas]

Football is a collection of sports that were played with a ball and on foot.
From it come British rugby, Australian rugby, American football and "football association". The last one is commonly known as soccer or just football.

I guess that makes more sense if it's on foot rather than with foot (well feet)... that would allow Rugby type games to be called football. I've never heard that explanation before, thanks

I'm basing this off from what I've been told...
But, at the time, England, early 19th Century, football appeared in opposition to horse-back sports.

[emjay]

I guess that makes more sense if it's on foot rather than with foot (well feet)... that would allow Rugby type games to be called football. I've never heard that explanation before, thanks

I'm basing this off from what I've been told...
But, at the time, England, early 19th Century, football appeared in opposition to horse-back sports.

Makes sense... unfortunately It seems to be another case of a word with two equally valid interpretations, as seems to happen a lot between Americans and Brits. Like our dates are in the form day-month-year, so in order of unit size... 1 day<1 month<1 year, whereas American dates are month-day-year, so in order of range size so 12 (months)<31 (day)<xxxx (years). Both seem equally valid interpretations. Likewise most American words put the stress on a different syllable than the Biritish equivalent. I'd swear they did it just to spite us... one last fuck you after the War of Independence Not saying your football thing is an American thing, but I'm sure they'll jump on it

[SteelCurtain]

Handegg>soccer

What What? In the butt.

[emjay]

Handegg>soccer

What What? In the butt.

I agree, Handegg>Soccer.

But no idea what you mean by the rest

[Regina]

All this talk about sports and I'm here like...

[SteelCurtain]

Disgusting. Deplorable.

I'll support the Steelers only when the Pats aren't playing

We don't want your limey contingent support. All or nothing!!!

[emjay]

I usually hate sports. The closest thing I get to sports is snooker usually, or occasionally tennis. But Handegg has really caught my interest cos it's unlike any other game I'm used to... much more strategic... more like a battle than a game.

[pocaracas]

I'm basing this off from what I've been told...
But, at the time, England, early 19th Century, football appeared in opposition to horse-back sports.

Makes sense... unfortunately It seems to be another case of a word with two equally valid interpretations, as seems to happen a lot between Americans and Brits. Like our dates are in the form day-month-year, so in order of unit size... 1 day<1 month<1 year, whereas American dates are month-day-year, so in order of range size so 12 (months)<31 (day)<xxxx (years). Both seem equally valid interpretations. Likewise most American words put the stress on a different syllable than the Biritish equivalent. I'd swear they did it just to spite us... one last fuck you after the War of Independence Not saying your football thing is an American thing, but I'm sure they'll jump on it

We got that same language disparity between European Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese. I blame it on the number of different languages that were thrown into the same pot.
In the US, they got Irish, Scots, Dutch, Japanese, some random Africans (courtesy of the Portuguese slave trade).
In Brazil, they got Portuguese, French, and the same Africans.

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Handegg>soccer

What What? In the butt.

Why do you say that, sir?