Comment Re:Football Piracy? (Score 1) 48
As I understand it, both Soccer and Football were used to describe the same sport when it was first came out. Football was more of a generic term for a bunch of different sports, including Rugby Football and Soccer/Football.
What we now know as Soccer/Football was known as Association Football, shortened to Assoc Football or Assocer Football. So Assocer Football got shortened to Soccer.
American Football continued to tradition of using Football as a generic term for a bunch of sports and modeled their sport after both Rugby and Soccer/Football.
As the the sports became more well played in their respected lands, they each took the more recognized Football moniker as their own, leaving the lesser known names, such as Soccer and American Football, for the names for the less played versions. As the world became smaller and more interconnected, we now have these arguments over who actually has the right to call themselves Football.
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