Comments on: Could Google Change the Very Name of Football?

By: Will

Will — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 21:55:28 +0000

I have heard Throwball, Gridiron, Armo(u)red Wankball (Depending on just how British one would like to be that day), Helmetball, Rugby for Sissies (and other, even more homophobic plural nouns), and probably one or two more I can't remember. All of which, in my opinion, are a bit unfair to my favorite team-sport-as-metaphor-for-warfare. Dave's blog over on the sidebar is a great read on comparative football-ology.

By: Trevbot

Trevbot — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 21:07:55 +0000

i personally hate when people think there so clever and say lets play football then look at me, knowing i love soccer, and say or should we play futbol? the only thing i can relate futbol vs. soccer too is your soccer vs. football. unless your mexican, then its chill

By: Ringo

Ringo — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 22:52:34 +0000

'helmetball' it is then.

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 21:30:12 +0000

See, I think that's too logical. We might have more luck calling soccer "helmetball," and either letting American football keep its name or rebranding it as "association baseball".

By: Zach

Zach — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 20:01:09 +0000

I have been trying to popularize the name "helmetball" for the North American variant…so far without much success. It may be an idea ahead of its time.

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 14:55:17 +0000

How about "shun-fo" (association + football)? It unites the hemispheres and also has the bonus of sounding like a martial art. I need to think about this.

By: Richard Whittall

Richard Whittall — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 14:45:57 +0000

How about just calling it 'association football'? You'll sound a tad pompous at first, but then maybe you could, sort of, shorten it. Like call it, 'assoc football' or just 'assoc', or perhaps, 'soccie'? Or something even more catchy than that?

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 10:27:33 +0000

Well, it didn't get the "reckless speculation" tag for nothing.

By: tj

tj — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 10:22:53 +0000

agree with will. google by default pulls up the localized version of the site, depending on the counntry youre in.

By: Dave's Football Blog

Dave's Football Blog — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 16:37:54 +0000

You think that's bad? Try looking up "football" in Wikipedia. You'll never look at any of these games the same way again.

By: Will

Will — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 16:33:57 +0000

My last visit to the UK, most times we would pull up google, it would do some IP Address magic and send us straight to Google UK.

By: verbal97

verbal97 — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 16:25:09 +0000

"Nah mate, not soccer. And for fuck sake stop saying soccer!"