On Fri, 4 Mar 2022 11:05:53 +0100, "Werner P." <
werpu@gmx.at> wrote:
Am 04.03.22 um 10:02 schrieb JAB:
I got confused until it clicked, oh you mean American Football not
football!
I alwyays wondered why it is called football in the us... while the main
aim seems to be to punch the other player into the groin with the fist...
ASFAIK, it's because American Football and regular Football ultimately
derived from the same class of 'kicking a ball' game that had been
played since time immemorial in Europe. In the mid 19th century, some
schlub in England (in the appropriately named 'Rugby School') decided
it would be neat twist if he picked up the ball and ran it to the goal
instead of using his feet.
His new invention was called 'Rugby Football'. Rugby football was
shortened into just 'football' in North America (and 'rugger' or
'rugby' elsewhere). Later it mutated into new forms, such as American
gridiron football, which Americans just called football because it's
easier. Meanwhile, the foot-fetishists in Europe evolved their game
into 'association football' which was sometimes abbreviated as
'asoccer' (and later just 'soccer' because they didn't want to sound
like Fonzie whenever they were talking about the game) but just as
often still called 'football'.
So which game is 'proper' football? Depending on how you look at it,
they both are, or neither is. Both are evolutions of the same game (or
games, since codified rules didn't really exist) and neither bears all
that much similarity to the original (in fact, in many variations of
the 'original' game, there was much more use of the hands than there
was in modern soccer). The confusion comes from the abbreviations;
what they play in America is American gridiron football, what they
play in Australia is Rugby football, what they play everywhere else is Association football. But it's all football.
What most people play on computers and programmed by EA, on the other
hand, is legalized gambling wrapped in a buggy shell. ;-)
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