06-01-2013, 02:59 PM
ps for CN: The soccer name you disdain so much is the original name of "association rules football" and was coined over 150 years ago by your own English as the official designation of that type of sport, in order to distinguish it form other popular "football" games like rugby. The "Foot" part of the name, for all types of football, was NOT what you think, the use of feet for kicking, but because at the time there were two main types of sport in England: types played on horseback, and types played on foot, hence the designation "football."
It only took on the generic name of "football" or "footy" because the lower classes began to like the game and refused to call it by the name "soccer" which they thought was too fancy. So basically, the name 'football' IS the bastardized, low-rent name for the game once called soccer by gentlemen in Britain. And the reason it stayed soccer in other countries like USA is because most already had versions of sports called football when your low-rent jazzercise kickball game showed up.
It only took on the generic name of "football" or "footy" because the lower classes began to like the game and refused to call it by the name "soccer" which they thought was too fancy. So basically, the name 'football' IS the bastardized, low-rent name for the game once called soccer by gentlemen in Britain. And the reason it stayed soccer in other countries like USA is because most already had versions of sports called football when your low-rent jazzercise kickball game showed up.