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You mean handegg

American football has been referred to as just football (in America) longer than football (soccer) was called just football in Britain. It was called association football as a distinct game separate from rugby football and other football games. Football distinguishing it from games played on horseback. Soccer was British slang from association (similarly at the time rugby football has slang term rugger.) Eventually the association part fell out of use but other countries that had developed their own football games tended to still call it soccer. I don't really care either way, I'll call it football when talking to people who call it football and soccer with people who call out soccer, I just think the origin of the terms is pretty interesting.

It’s called football because people run around on their feet, as opposed to horseback for polo.

It’s because it’s played on foot, rather than horseback like many early sports

But close

that other "football" game

Handegg

They didn’t just lose, their king pissed of the Europeans so much they felt it necessary to stomp them in to the ground

Torx is king, but I would happily use only Phillips if we as humans got rid of slotted screws/screwdrivers. Every single time I'm forced to use one it annoys me. You can minimize it slipping out by using the right size, but who the hell wants to use or carry more than one of these? And it still doesn't eliminate the problems, whether you use it for high or low torque applications...

I prefer handegg.

A toxic masculinity-fueled sport like that could do with a whimsical but accurate name to balance things out.

dump is asking fifa to find some more points.

It was only 1.57-1 in imperial though.

The only reason he hasn't fully embraced MAGA is because it'll kill his ratings.

May not be common, but I've heard it in american slang. I think its more an old carry over from telegrams that never quite left our shared language.

Soccer is a British word though, but predominantly southerner / Oxfordian.

Association Football used to get contracted to Assoc or Soc to differentiate it from Rugby Football.

And in Oxford, they historically liked to add -er to the end of things; still in parlance today is calling Rugby “rugger”, £5 note “fiver”, the Bodleian Library “Bodder”.

Assoc became “soccer”.

It’s not an American thing. It’s a posh southern England thing that got exported to the states by American students at Oxford returning stateside and bringing the game back with them, and forgotten by the English because the southern teams pale in comparison to the north’s.