• doctordevice@lemmy.ca
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    2 days ago

    You still don’t understand what “football” is. Association football is the most popular in the world, so in regions where it’s the most popular they call it “football” and other forms by other names. In regions where other games of football are more popular they call those sports “football” and call other forms by other names (e.g., soccer).

    You being completely ignorant of the history and current landscape of all football sports does not mean it is incorrect to call any other form of football “football.”

    Other points:

    • Much of the Anglosphere, including Australia, call association football “soccer.” It is very much not just the US.
    • Being okay with “Aussie rules football” but not “American football” is patently absurd and betrays that:
    • It was not a strawman it was a clearly accurate insight into your position that you just wanted to be anti-American, your reply here is also dripping with it.
    • I’m not saying outliers are the norm. I’m saying everywhere calls the most popular form of football in that area simply “football”
    • Your obsession with ball shape similarly betrays your ignorance of football since there are many forms of football that use more oval shaped balls.
    • Also it wasn’t a strawman when someone said the word came from the British you replied with “no.”