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Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8
Do they play real football up there in Canada, or the game with the misnomer "football," which uses a round ball and should be referred to as soccer?
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Originally Posted by bgalbrecht
The rest of the world wonders why we call a sport where the only time the foot touches the ball is when you kick the ball to the other team or attempt to score an extra point, "FOOTBALL". Canadian football played by the CFL has 12 players per side, the field is larger than the American football field, and the rules are obviously different. So, yes, it's as real as American football is.
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Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8
Hahahahahah.
I was just trying to get a rise out of the foreigners on the thread.
You made a great point.
I looked up the beginning dates of both kinds of football, as I thought that I might have a valid argument there. Lost again. It appears that soccer football started about 1863, and American football started in about 1869.
Maybe American football should change it's name to "armball" since, as you mentioned soccer involves contact with the ball much more than American football. There is much, much use of arms in American football. And the mouth, in trash talk.
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Is this serendipity or what?
On the Origins of Sports: The Early History and Original Rules of Everybody's Favorite Games. By Gary Belsky; Neil Fine.
it's a 4.9-star (40) at Amazon! I didn't even bother to look up the ratings at GoodReads, with that kind of rating at Amazon.
256 pages.
$1.99 (80% of the digital list price).
https://www.amazon.com/Origins-Sport.../dp/B015X2PGFS.