It's called football because you use your feet when you play it.

Wandel

@camel109: Which really says everything you need to know about it.

92BuickLeSabre

@camel109: @camel109:

Exactly

Jeremias

@DoPeY5007: They had it! Except they used it to make that stoopid 'whoosh' thingy on TV, instead.

homerjay

Football wouldn't be football without the after match riots and blaming the ref for your side losing

camel109

They need this for the NHL!

DoPeY5007

@mrxcel:

True But True

Jeremias

In ome Way I fell that soccer is gonna lose it's magic since whe ca not say something like that anymore

"This Freaking referee i a Freaking blind Retard, that coul not see the Ball ws in"

Or

" The Freaking Referee is bught out by the other team"

Jeremias

I was really wondering when they were going to get around to taking advantage of technology to try and, you know, minimize riots.

The only sport slower than soccer when it comes to taking advantage of this stuff is baseball.

Sqube

IT IS FOOTBALL! according to 90% of the world.

mrxcel

What happens when the balls become self aware? Skynet with soccer balls?

GizFanAlpha

Wouldn't those little sticky out things get bent like Beckham when the ball gets kicked?

LoganSix

Adam, you're on thin ice, or turf here M8.
They do not look kindly upon being called "roving pack of belligerent, mulleted steakheads".
I suggest your edit that line to say..."fucking roving fucking pack of fucking belligerent, fucking mulleted fucking steakheads".
And just to be safe edit "soccer fans are animals" too.

ANoel

Oh come on ... there isnt that much violence after games ... and normally it doesnt include the refs .... But chants of "Refree we know where your car is parked" can be intimidating ...

What i really love / hate about this ball is that it will prevent things like this

[en.wikipedia.org]

It happend 30 years ago and there is still a discussion going on about it :)

Redwraithvienna

Now if only they'd make a baseball that knows with its in the strike zone.

homerjay

@Wandel: I think athlete's in all other non-paralympic sports would be surprised to hear that they don't use their feet.

92BuickLeSabre

@yougottabekidding:

You are mixing that up with the aztec form of basketball.

Modern football has its source in the roman game "Harpastum" and in numerouse medival football like games.

Redwraithvienna

@yougottabekidding:

I ll Just quote Bill Shankly : Football isn't a matter of life and death - it's much more serious than that.

Redwraithvienna

As an after thought, let's make soccer much like the original 'sport' it was based on, namely the part where the losing team, and 'fans' for that team are executed immediately after the loss. Getting violent because of a bad call, or because your team lost...or for that matter won even...is like slapping your daughter/son because they beat you at Go Fish! or checkers. It's uncalled for, and just plain stupid.

yougottabekidding

Or...sports fans, especially soccer fans, could try to catch up with the rest of us on the evolutionary ladder and realize that it's just a F$^@&#ING game, and not get violent for no good reason! Here's an idea, fans that go to watch a live game should be added to a database so when the next war involving their country breaks out somewhere, then these idiots can be the first ones drafted into the military and sent in to take out their sports frustrations on the enemy! Regardless of how useful this technology is in determining the 'right call' unruly and uncivilized fans on either side of the call with still get rowdy and violent unless they change themselves.

yougottabekidding

@mrxcel:
"IT IS FOOTBALL! according to 90% of the world."

"Soccer" is slang for "Association", as in "Association Football". Americans didn't invent the term, a Brit did.

strictnein

@yougottabekidding:
I thought it was invented by Mayans who used to kick a human head in a pitch almost the size of a pitch through an vertical iron basketball hoop on the wall.
Pretty violent I understand.
Wait, actually I think that was the genesis of polo, ya,
Segway polo!

ANoel

Soccer has many variations of it's origin actually. Perhaps the modern day version isn't directly derived from south america, but neither is basket ball in some sense because that form required the players to NOT use their hands and which required them to use their feet and hips to shoot the goals and the hoop. Technically a variety of today's games can be derived from various old forms of games, so I am not wrong as some would claim.

[wiki.answers.com]

yougottabekidding

@strictnein:
Neat...I always wondered where the term came from.

Hopefully this doesn't alter the way the ball plays, though even the 2006 WC ball seemed to fly a bit weird, so perhaps footballers are used to adjusting to things like that.

Jogo Bonito FTW!

Steve19970

@homerjay: AMEN, i'll no longer lose my voice screaming at the damn tv...

Solidsky

In general people in the US always have an out of date view of the rest of the world. The violence surrounding football matches subsided enormously in the late 80s.

If US sports had as big a traveling fan contingency as football does, there would probably be similar violence levels (hey, here in LA fans trash their own neighborhoods!). But, hey, Americans would still find a way to convince themselves that they're superior to the rest of the world!

And yes, YOUGOTTABEKIDDING is wrong. Football is not derived from the Aztec ball game (actually it's not even clear if it was the winning or losing side that were sacrificed). Association Football was derived from the many local ball games that had been played in England for centuries.

LittleJon

Oops..typo. Meaning not meeting. So sue me.

yougottabekidding

@Juantxon: We reserve the right to follow our own path, whether that's measured in miles or kilometers or cubits. Besides, the U.S. does use both measurements so it's not all about one or the other. No need to hate because of a few differences.
Nothing wrong with calling soccer(football, futbol),soccer. It's not hurting anyone. In U.K. there are several words that to us have a totally different meeting, but I guess Americans are wrong there too. Of course, the U.K. would be all be speaking German if it weren't for us. Cultural differences should be embraced and learned from.

yougottabekidding

Yeah, soccer...

You americans still talk in miles, quarters, farenheit when everyone is talking in kilometers, liters and celsius...

Juantxon

this kind of pisses me off....

I THOUGHT ABOUT THE SAME FREAKING THING

sometimes i just wonder if i should patent everything i think about

Twenty5

Kinda funny that the ball looks like a prop from a show like 24, where Jack Bauer must find how the terrorists are going to blow up stuff and kill people, because the bomb is like EA sports, it's in the game. Cue huge tie in with EA.

But then again, Americans don't like soccer, so we will have to think of a new one.

Churchington

@yougottabekidding: Actually, you're wrong. The UK would all be speaking German if it wasn't for the Russians (or Soviets, more accurately). After Hitler declared war on the USSR, no less than 7/8ths of the German army was deployed on the Eastern front. We tend to forget that in the West.

Also the Battle of Britain (which did involved a couple of US pilots who had joined the RAF because the US wasn't entering the war) put paid to a German invasion of Britain. Without Luftwaffe support an invasion was impossible. In fact I've heard it convincingly argued (by an American WWII buff) that the Germans could never have successfully held Britain as the logistics of supplying German forces across the English Channel would have made it impossible for them to have occupied a hostile UK.

Lastly, if it wasn't for the British Americans would all be speaking Spanish now! So quit your childish taunts!

LittleJon

it's football - as known to the rest of the world, sorry north america, it's just you on this one - and usually you call it american football, right?

as for the after game riots by "fans"?

give me a break, "fans" celebrate sport, people rioting are just using whatever reason to cause havoc, what else do you expect when hundreds of people are drunk?

moving on...

why does the referee get a watch with the receiver?

make it like hockey, except the light behind the net is automatic for everyone to see!

skulldriveshaft

Uh you serious man? In my county whenever the two biggest teams play, they let each fanbase in at a time. Same thing at the end, the visiting team gets 30 minutes to clear the fuck out of town, before the cops let the home team out. Its usually 300 cops outside and like another 100 inside dividing the "fans". It gets ugly sometimes, these people just go nuts, throwing rocks at the cops, eachother, shooting at eachother...Its crazy.

smeee

"Europeans seem to just accept the fact that after a match a roving pack of belligerent, mulleted steakheads will roam the streets of their towns looking for people to injure to make up for the team that they like not winning."

But on the bright side, we can usually assume they're not going to have guns.

"it's football - as known to the rest of the world, sorry north america, it's just you on this one"

It's サッカー (sakkaa) in Japan.　And apparently "Soccer is the name used for Association football by most Australians... In New Zealand English, association football is usually called soccer... In the Republic of Ireland, the sport is sometimes called soccer to distinguish it from Gaelic football... In South Africa, "soccer" is the more common name, used by all cultural groups when speaking English..." So, not just North America.

[en.wikipedia.org]

We all used to use the term soccer at my school in England, as well, until we realised that the Americans used it, at which point we started pretending we didn't.

NineTailedFox

Lets put this to rest, The term "football" was first used in the english language to describe a sport outside of England. It refers to Gaelic Football in Ireland. A sport that allows people to use both their hands and feet.

The word is NOT used because the foot is the ONLY thing you can use, but it lets you know that feet MAY be used. Their is a sport, called "handball" (also irish) and in that you may only use your hand.

When people moved from Ireland to England, they took the terminology of football to describe the sport they seen in england.

Its as obvious as the nose on your face, that "football" came from a person who did not have english as his first language, and did not have a translation for the irish name for the game.

So although 90% of people call the sport "football", it is not the original football by any means of the imagination.

Also, the sport of english football does not come from the aztec world, How could that be possible when there is records of people playing (organised) football in Ireland in 1308, and people in england were for sure, kicking a ball about in the origins of soccer...

prodigal_son

@LittleJon: That could still be debated. While in no way am I denying that the Soviets were a significant force in the war, the U.S. did have a tremendous affect on the outcome as well, something I don't think you could deny either. The U.S. industrial might to produce the weapons and aircraft used heavily against Germany surely would have changed the outcome of the war had it not been there. The Soviets and the Soviet winter inflicted massive casualties on Germany, that is a fact. Not denying it. However Germany also inflicted massive casualties on the Soviets as well. And with the German's increasing advancement in their technology, namely in aircraft and tanks, but later in ballistic missiles, it's difficult to say how that would have affected the outcome of the war without the U.S. involvment. And that was the point I was making. Perhaps the Soviets alone would have defeated Germany, or perhaps not. It was an allied effort in the end that defeated them, and the U.S. and Soviets emerged as the two super powers. Without the effort of both the U.S. and the Soviets the world would be a different place today.

yougottabekidding