Football is a sport played all over the world. American Football is only played in the USA and Canada.
Sorry, Americans, but you lost this battle ages ago. Just let it go.
American football is gaining popularity in Europe and South America at a pretty healthy clip. Enough so that the NFL is now sending teams to play games in those places. They are even starting to consider expanding a couple of teams to Europe in the future. And there are more and more international players starting to get a foothold in the NFL as players.
You might have won a battle, but you could lose still lose the war…
There is a lot of interest among Europeans to watch American football, but there isn’t really anyone playing it here. I think it’s because American football has more complicated rules than rugby 😂
There have been a few European players in the NFL. The team I follow, the Minnesota Vikings, have had a number of international players at least tryout for the team. We’ve had a German wide receiver on the roster for 2 years, a player from Africa, (I can’t remember the country right now), and a couple Aussie and New Zealand kickers. In fact, we will have a punter from Australia this year trying to make the team. And there have been a few Polynesians in the NFL over the years also.
So, American football does have enough worldwide players to draw at least few players. Though almost all attend collage in the US to gain better skills and attention. I wonder if the reason more Europeans don’t gain much attention from the NFL is because you generally aren’t big enough, (don’t feel bad 90% of the world isn’t). There is almost a genetic lottery you need to win at birth to even have a start at being good enough.
Aww…feeling insecure that not enough people are playing American football. As if Europeans aren’t big enough to even play rugby. Wait until you play against the bigger Eastern Europeans.
Feeling small? Trying to compensate?
Sure thing, buddy.
So, what did I say that factually wrong?
They’ve been at that since the 90’s and its never taken off. Why bother when we have Rugby?
The numbers say otherwise. If it didn’t, they wouldn’t bother.
What numbers?
The numbers of people who stay up until stupid hours of the night to watch games. And the number of tickets sold to people filling stadiums to capacity when the NFL to others countries. The NFL sent 6 teams to play last year. A game in Ireland, England, and Germany. Plus 2 teams Mexico and Brazil each. And each game was sold out and filled stadiums.
Just like soccer is becoming a much bigger thing in the US, American football IS growing in the rest of the world. And there are some fledgling rugby amateur leagues popping up too. But we still don’t play cricket though. Baseball is better. Though I can’t prove it
Lol at American football. What a joke. America just trying to be the center of attention everywhere, pushing their shitty head concussions on people they don’t even want in their country. As an “American”, America sucks big donkey dick. So does American footy ball
Ahhh, enjoy your superiority!
I’d fully respect the NFL if they started calling it “handegg” instead of football.
jk, I’d still not respect them, but they should totally do it.
Funfact soccer is a British word not an American one. The British popularized it.
The same thing happened with aluminum. The current American way of saying it is actually the original British wah. Since they made it.
The British changed and America just stuck to the original way the British wanted everyone to say it.
So again it’s not America who’s wrong, it’s the British being stupid telling people what to do. Then getting mad when they do it.
Run it by me again… You carry the ball in your hands and run forwards? You occasionally throw it, again using your hands?
What do you call it?
Football.
What’s the britbowl? Who are the GB lions?
What are you talking about?
You have google.
Thats the same face I make when you call them “crossing guards” instead of “lollipop ladies”
Awr narr
One of my all time favorite memes
Brits when you use the word that was invented by Brits for it.
Brits use the word because they weren’t competent enough at Ōllamaliztli, so they had to invent a lesser sport with no ritual sacrifice.
no ritual sacrifice.
What is even the point then?
The pile of discarded football managers begs to differ.
Most of the world calls it football because feet and ball. American football is usually referred to as commercials or ads.
Etymology-wise, football is actually called football because it’s done on foot as opposed to on horse.
Ah so that’s why its Polo and not “horse polo”
It’s named after the shirt.
Oh that makes sense! Polo shirts have that little horse guy on them sometimes.
What. Horseball was taken?
Yep, check Pornhub for proof
It seems so stupid to me that Americans took over the name football for a sport thats not even mainly played by foot, and then pretend like thats the sport that naturally belongs to the name. Like wtf.
This is why the fuck: american football evolved from Association Football (soccer) and rugby. Americans didn’t take over the name, the names for each version of the “ball game on a field with goals at either end” developed from different regional slang as each sport evolved and grew into popularity in their respective places. Each of those sports developed various shortened or slang versions of their name. Rugby was really Rugby football. Association football became soccer, a term coined in London and adopted by Americans. Gridiron football evolved from both and become what Americans just called football.
hand egg
Most of the world calls it
footballfútbol
Surely you meant to say jalgpall
pretty sure england called it soccer before america…and football is the better sport its just facts
It’s. Called. Soccer!!!
Objectively wrong. And american “football” makes no sense as a name.
Football is a game played on foot. Gridiron is a football, same as soccer.
How is association football a better name?
Nope.
Your version should rightly be called handegg, though.
Football (the genre of games) wasnt named that because you kick the ball, but because it was played on foot, not horseback like polo. Rugby, was originally known as rugby football, after the school it was invented in
Golf is football. Got it.
Eh, more like cart + standball these days
Golf is a race. Theres not offense or defensive counter play, or intercompetitor strategy it’s just race with # strokes replacing the timer.
I’m pretty sure races have attacking and defending strategies, though.
Only Race sport i can think of is team sailing, where a boat can use right of way to force members of the oppnents fleet off course to secure a better place for his teammates.
F1?
My version is called soccer.
sock her? but you barely know her
My favourite games are netball and rounders …
Americans when you point out that the word “football” doesn’t exclusively refer to gridiron.
Oi! When I finish this pint after watching old top gear on Dave I’m gonna give you what for you America cunt!
Heh yeah they do have some bad teeth, whacky Brits.
Reference to it with proximity to yanks :
You are the only non yank there : Soccer
There are 60% yanks : Association football
There are 30% or less yanks : football
There are 0% yanks, and 100% Brits that actually like this boring sport : FootySoccer = aSSOCiation Football. It’s a British term.
The British invented the term soccer. If they give you shit about using it, tell them they can fuck right off.
Get em
British Toffs invented the term soccer.
Yeah, it’s like saying we should call rugby “rugger”, because that’s what the old Etonians called it (I don’t know if they still do).
Its Oxford University slang derived from Rugby School slang, rather than Etonian. However, many do still refer to the morning meal as “brekkers” and nakedness as “starkers”, regardless of class.
where that bloke from?
Warcraft film
Lancashire
