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[quote name='Dae Breaker' timestamp='1354550315' post='6084109']
*Doesn'tcare.*
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Same. I just had a childhood up there, and my cousin plays in the marching band.

And that's also where the Packers are. My family's obsessed with that team.

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[quote name='Nathanael Darius Striker' timestamp='1354548689' post='6084087']
*yawns* Your Badgers don't scare me. While I would like a rematch between our teams, Stanford should take care of you. *shivers* Stanford. Ugh...
[/quote]Stanford? You know, the team more likely to lose to the Badgers than any other team they could have faced in the Rose Bowl?

Have fun with Kansas State, though. Must be fun having to settle for a second rate BCS bowl.

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[quote name='Agro' timestamp='1354561225' post='6084222']
1. It's [b]badges[/b]
2. f*** a duck
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[size=6]F*CK YEAH, BADGES!!![/size]
[img]http://www.pimall.com/nais/BADGES/autorizedbadges.jpg[/img]
[quote name='Dae Breaker' timestamp='1354553475' post='6084146']

Chargers are where my brother is. I am tired when it comes to sports though unless it is Irish Dance.
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Only reason why I watch sports is because of the food, and for the hilarious reactions to some plays that happen.

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AHAHAHAHA football is such a silly topic. Especially when you realize that american english went ahead and used the word for whatever the f*** they wanted and assigned the actual representation of the word an entirely different one.

As such, from now on every time I would say person I will say harinster instead. [i]THAT'LL SHOW THEM. Obviously.[/i]

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[quote name='Excalibur-sama' timestamp='1354568876' post='6084319']
AHAHAHAHA football is such a silly topic. Especially when you realize that american english went ahead and used the word for whatever the f*** they wanted and assigned the actual representation of the word an entirely different one.

As such, from now on every time I would say person I will say harinster instead. [i]THAT'LL SHOW THEM. Obviously.[/i]
[/quote]Because the name we call it makes all the difference. It wouldn't be the exact same game if we renamed american football something absurd.

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[quote name='Agro' timestamp='1354569319' post='6084325']
Because the name we call it makes all the difference. It wouldn't be the exact same game if we renamed american football something absurd.
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I was exaggerating more than anything, but yes it would in the end. If it had been named Soccer instead of what you've gotten used to call Soccer, would you say it's an absurd name?

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[quote name='Excalibur-sama' timestamp='1354570446' post='6084337']


I was exaggerating more than anything, but yes it would in the end. If it had been named Soccer instead of what you've gotten used to call Soccer, would you say it's an absurd name?
[/quote]No actually. I still don't consider it a weird name even though I have no idea why they called it that or what it means.

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[quote name='Agro' timestamp='1354571988' post='6084363']
No actually. I still don't consider it a weird name even though I have no idea why they called it that or what it means.
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It's not that it's a weird name. It's just I don't understand why they gave a new name to a sport that already had a name and use the name of the aforementioned sport for one that doesn't exactly fit its given name.

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[quote name='Excalibur-sama' timestamp='1354572779' post='6084373']


It's not that it's a weird name. It's just I don't understand why they gave a new name to a sport that already had a name and use the name of the aforementioned sport for one that doesn't exactly fit its given name.
[/quote]Considering how long ago each sport was made, I'm not sure we can truly contemplate it. It probably makes perfect sense with enough information about it.

Alright. I did a little research. Football, as a term, refers to any sort of sport that uses the feet to move a ball, all to a varying degree, of course.

American football didn't have a name upon its conception, and there were all different types of the sport played across the nation denominated, and this is an important point, by high schoolers or younger.

The first collegiate game of american football that was played played much more like classic football (soccer) than the current version, which plays more like rugby. That would probably be why the name stuck.

Oh, and he US didn't come up with the term Soccer. The Brits did :D

The term "soccer", derived from a transformation/emendation of the "assoc" in Association football, was popularised by a prominent English footballer, Charles Wreford-Brown (1866–1951). The first recorded use of "soccer" was in 1895. Two years earlier The Western Gazette reported that "W. Neilson was elected captain of ‘rugger’ and T. N. Perkins of ‘socker’" and Henry Watson Fowler recommended socker in preference to "soccer" to emphasise its correct pronunciation (i.e. hard "cc/ck"). In this context, he suggested that "baccy", because of the "cc" in "tobacco", was "more acceptable than soccer" (there being no "cc" in "Association"). "Socker" was the form that appeared in the first edition of the Concise Oxford Dictionary (1911).

Also, rugby's full name is rugby football. Most likely, the reason American football became known as football instead of association football in the US was because American football was more popular in, well, America.

Note that until the later half of the last decade, Australia, New Zealand, and another country that I don't remember well enough also called Association football "soccer"

This has been your daily etymology lesson.

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