It’s gonna be named Trumpball isn’t it?

As a “soccer” fan, I’m glad we get football back.

  • Raglesnarf@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    I’m probably just dumb but I thought the technical name was Gridiron Football, doesn’t that count?

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      7 hours ago

      Yep.

      Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word football generally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly called football include association football (known as soccer in Australia, Canada, South Africa, the United States, and sometimes in Ireland and New Zealand); Australian rules football; Gaelic football; gridiron football (specifically American football, arena football, or Canadian football); International rules football; rugby league football; and rugby union football.[1] These various forms of football share, to varying degrees, common origins and are known as “football codes”.

      And though the jokes about gridiron not actually using your feet much are understandable, kicking the ball might not be the reason any of these sports are called “football”. It’s actually possible it’s because they are played on foot, to distinguish them from horseback sports like polo, which were more of a thing at the time they were named.

      There are conflicting explanations of the origin of the word “football”. It is widely assumed that the word “football” (or the phrase “foot ball”) refers to the action of the foot kicking a ball.[13] There is an alternative explanation, which is that football originally referred to a variety of games in medieval Europe that were played on foot.[14] There is little conclusive evidence for either explanation.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football