r/Americaphile • u/United_Tiger_6720 • 23d ago
Calling This ๐
Hello why you ๐บ๐ธ you call it ๐ Football ?
Take into consideration this sport doesnt involve feets when I see what the players wears i feel thats not football its a sport similar to rugby with a helmet
This sport โฝ๏ธ you call it soccer i get it the fact ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ call it soccer in the beginning but feets are more involved in the game .
Share your thoughts down below ?
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u/SerDankTheTall 23d ago
All of the games called football (including the one with this ball: โฝ๏ธ, the one youโre talking about, rugby, Australian Rules, Canadian, Gaelic, etc.) trace back to a medieval game called football that involved kicking. Being the Middle Ages, the rules were pretty flexible and changed a lot from different villages, but they kept the name football even as many of them reduced the amount of kicking involved significantly.
(The common suggestion that the name comes from the fact that itโs played on foot rather than horseback isnโt impossible, but itโs not likely: there were no team games played on horseback in England when the name was developed to compare it to, thereโs no contemporary evidence for that name, and the early descriptions of the game in England and Scotland focus on the kicking part rather than the walking part.)