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sunshine_shaman: Stupid word confusion. Why did we decide to call American football “football,” anyway? It just winds up confounding the World Cup.ME: Because calling it “Homoerotic Man-Pile” just doesn’t sound quite like what they’re going for.
MOM: And we wonder how come your dad gets depressed when your brother isn’t home.
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FAMILY: Blah blah blah comments about Shakespeare blah blah.
AMELIA: I just realized something! Shakespeare would mess with grammar and make up words with wild abandon, right? He was the Elizabethan version of Strong Bad!
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Date: 2010-06-15 03:03 pm (UTC)Apparently, "foot ball" originally described a whole class of different "peasant" games that were played with balls on foot, as distinguished from games played by aristocrats on horseback. It had nothing to do with any contact the foot and the ball might have had during the game.
One of the quotes from the 1800s describes a game in which kicking the ball is against the rules and calls it "football."