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tip top toker

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If you don't mind me asking, why does the rest of the world get upset that we call it soccer? Do they realise that soccer is a term that was actually started in England?
I think it's probably more to do with the fact that if we say football, the whole world except the yanks get's it straight away. So we have to say soccer afterwards to make it clear. God knows why you called a game where you run around with the ball in your hands "football" :lol:
 

fdd2blk

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The history of American football can be traced to early versions of rugby football and association football. Both games have their origins in varieties of football played in the United Kingdom in the mid-19th century, in which a ball is kicked at a goal and/or run over a line. Many games known as "football" were being played at colleges and universities in the United States in the first half of the 19th century.[8][9]

Walter Camp


American football resulted from several major divergences from rugby football, most notably the rule changes instituted by Walter Camp, considered the "Father of American Football". Among these important changes were the introduction of the line of scrimmage and of down-and-distance rules. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, game play developments by college coaches such as Eddie Cochems, Amos Alonzo Stagg, Knute Rockne, and Glenn "Pop" Warner helped take advantage of the newly introduced forward pass.
The popularity of collegiate football grew as it became the dominant version of the sport for the first half of the twentieth century. Bowl games, a college football tradition, attracted a national audience for collegiate teams. Bolstered by fierce rivalries, college football still holds widespread appeal in the US.[8][10][11]
The origin of professional football can be traced back to 1892, with William "Pudge" Heffelfinger's $500 contract to play in a game for the Allegheny Athletic Association against the Pittsburgh Athletic Club. The first Professional "league" was the Ohio League, formed in 1903, and the first Professional Football championship game was between the Buffalo Prospects and the Canton Bulldogs in 1919. In 1920, the American Professional Football Association was formed. The first game was played in Dayton, Ohio on October 3, 1920 with the host Triangles defeating the Columbus Panhandles 14–0. The league changed its name to the National Football League (NFL) two years later, and eventually became the major league of American football. Initially a sport of Midwestern industrial towns in the United States, professional football eventually became a national phenomenon. Football's increasing popularity is usually traced to the 1958 NFL Championship Game, a contest that has been dubbed the "Greatest Game Ever Played". A rival league to the NFL, the American Football League (AFL), began play in 1960; the pressure it put on the senior league led to a merger between the two leagues and the creation of the Super Bowl, which has become the most watched television event in the United States on an annual basis.[12]
 

loquacious

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I think it's probably more to do with the fact that if we say football, the whole world except the yanks get's it straight away. So we have to say soccer afterwards to make it clear. God knows why you called a game where you run around with the ball in your hands "football" :lol:
Well, I meant that when I call it "soccer" people correct me and say it's "football". I was just pointing out that I find it funny that the english are the ones who called it soccer first (nothing to do with explaining things to American people).
 

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[video=youtube;phGVrd5Nf78]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phGVrd5Nf78&feature=related[/video]
 

FarmTech

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Fuck! I wish I was on board since the beginning of this thread
could have said a snappy comeback or two haha.
oh well too late now and i'd rather watch than be
in the middle. time to roll a fatty:weed: and smoke it to my dome :bigjoint:
 
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