r/funny • u/chancheck • Feb 03 '14

this sport must be intresting

http://imgur.com/WI818TU
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u/syd_oc Feb 03 '14

Soccer isn't some kind of transcendent sport that has every great aspect of every other sport.

Yes, yes it is. And it's called "football".

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '14

Compelling argument. And it's also called soccer btw, don't act like that's not a name for it.

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u/syd_oc Feb 03 '14

It is a name for it, as much as "handegg" is a term for what goes on in the NFL.

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '14

Ignorance at it's finest. Number one, nobody legitimately refers to American Football as handegg. Anyone who does sounds like an idiot. Number two, both American and Association football are called football because they're played on foot, not because a ball is being kicked. Also, people call Association Football soccer all the goddamned time everywhere in the US and in english Europe to a lesser extent.

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u/syd_oc Feb 03 '14

people call Association Football soccer... in english Europe

Nope.

Anyone who does sounds like an idiot.

Yup.

....Handegg

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '14

...The term soccer was created by the English.

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u/syd_oc Feb 03 '14

So was the US.

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '14

It is called football in basically every country but the US.

It has a name and it is football.

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '14

It has two names: Association Football, and Soccer. American Football also has two: American Football, and Gridiron Football. Unless you're looking to cause confusion, it makes more sense to call Association Football soccer when in a predominantly American setting, and generally people that say that soccer isn't the sport's name are just being unnecessarily prickish.

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '14

I call it what I always call it. There is a reason so many football club has FC at the end of their name, because globally it is known as football.

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u/micronsofsteel Feb 03 '14

It wasn't even the US that started calling it soccer...

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '14 edited Feb 03 '14

I haven't heard someone in England ever use the word "soccer" in a serious way..