On 9/1/05, Ag Hatzim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [common joke] > Why you americans insist to call a game that is playing with hands. > football,when this name clearly belongs to "what you falsely call > soccer"? > [/common joke] > -- > http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-chat > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ > Unsubscribe: See the above information page > Hmm, that got me thinking and I looked it up on Wikipedia and in the football page "When the English language word "football" originated, it referred to a wide variety of games in medieval Europe, which were played on foot — that is, by peasants — as opposed to the games played by horse-riding aristocrats. Therefore the name has always implied a variety of games played by people on foot, not just those that involved kicking a ball."
And in the American football page "American football evolved as a separate sport from rugby football in the early 20th century. Arena football is a variant of American football." So football is a common name for many games. Europe and America just went seperate ways on which part they dropped from the name. Europe kept the name that identified the sport from other sports and America just kept the football. And as to where soccer came from, Wikipedia answers that too. On the football (soccer) page: "The term soccer first appeared in the 1880s as a derivation of the abbreviation of association to assoc." -- Kevin Jordan
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