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In Which Term do You use Football for?

Well, I live in America, so the first sport that comes to mind is American football, but I actually refer to soccer as football too, since I tend to be a purist when it comes to those things.

Soccer, and all other options should be called footbutmostlyhandsball.

Spawn of Yanni wrote:Soccer, and all other options should be called footbutmostlyhandsball.

So true.
I choose the correct football also.

In a perfect world, I would think of football as soccer, but I am conditioned to think of AFL first. Although it depends on the context.

Football, due to my enjoyment of British television.

These options confuse me greatly. I consider football to be called just football. Soccer is what Americans call football as I know it. So then where does this leave me between the choices of 'Football - Soccer' and 'Football - American Football'?? O_o

I presume the (soccer) is there to help differentiate between the various options. If he put "Football (Football)" in there, everyone'd choose it.

futbol= soccer for me
football is that bloody american sport witch i despise so deeply....

What's a soccer?

Football, that's the only name for it. The only time I see American Football players use their feet is, umm, err, never. Oh yeah, they use their feet to run.

No vote, because the option should say: Football.

Ahaha, I love how America makes no sense.

Wedgie/Izzy - American football =

Soccer =


Australian football is this madness which seems to be similar to American football.

Football to everyone else that I know of in the world is soccer to us Americans.

Sorry for the giant pictures, it's not showing the resizing I did on photobucket...
edit: Thanks Mod (=

American Football. Isn;t doesn't get any better than the Chargers.

ToeFaceKiller wrote:Ahaha, I love how America makes no sense.

Wedgie/Izzy - American football =

Soccer =


Australian football is this madness which seems to be similar to American football.

Football to everyone else that I know of in the world is soccer to us Americans.

Sorry for the giant pictures, it's not showing the resizing I did on photobucket...

I thought you were cool :P. Football is football. Those guys should rename the sport, but handball is already taken.

Hey, if had the chance rename the sport, I would call it 3DDiamondLikeBallThingBall, but that's just me =p

I live in Canada, so it's only natural for me to go towards American football.
Although I do believe that "football" should only mean soccer, as opposed to Americans being unoriginal when naming sports.

Football = Soccer for me. Unfortunately, I can't demonstrate this belief most of the time.

I live in a red state, so the patriotic kind of football.

i use it for both

I'm not American but I still call it soccer, I seldomly use 'football' O_o

The football over here SUCKS.

That hand crap, football is football, you know, world cup

I adjust my lingo depending on my geographical location so as not to confuse people, but at home, the terms I use are:

'soccer': european football
'football': AFL
'gridiron', 'rugby', or some equivalent term: USA football*


*There's probably a difference between rugby and gridiron and/or american football. Just because I use the terms doesn't mean I know anything about them. I'm into AFL :P

Me too ... I dont like the fact tho that people are abusing afl saying the name should be changed and other things ... just say what you voted on and or why

Futbol Americano es lo mejor!!! :D

I try to refer to american football as 'american football', but it's certainly the first thing that comes to mind when people talk about football.

Izzy wrote:I thought you were cool :P. Football is football. Those guys should rename the sport, but handball is already taken.

Football was already taken too, but we came in and kicked its ass.