Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: JAB Newsgroups: misc.news.internet.discuss Subject: Re: Hamas' top political leader is killed Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2024 06:45:39 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 39 Message-ID: References: <097d5c44-eaa8-f762-f98b-a3ad0555fe61@example.net> <66b02213$4$1439842$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> Reply-To: JAB MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2024 13:45:41 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="8cb3566f41b1010bb9e78bb9967ab3d6"; logging-data="704300"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1890DwU2Mx4d+OcTrv7yZVD" User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 Cancel-Lock: sha1:WVby/vk8YTb+o1TbO2vEnFIdiA4= Bytes: 2728 On Mon, 5 Aug 2024 12:25:17 +0100, "Blueshirt" wrote: >I'm just waiting for the new football* season to start for my >entertainment. > > >[*That's socka to you guys in the USA!] Why did America call it football? The exact etymology of the word "football" is slightly unclear, but many historians say the term dates back to the late Middle Ages, when it was used to refer to any sport that was played on foot, as opposed to sports played on horseback. Over centuries, it came to be associated with different kicking games played throughout the U.K., the rules of which were eventually combined and standardized to form football (or soccer, as it became known in the U.S.) in the mid-19th century. Around the same time, rugby -- or rugby football -- began developing in and around England. Though similar to soccer in that it required a team to advance a ball toward its opponents' goal, it differed in that players could pick up the ball and run it down the field. Over the next decades, American universities began playing their own early forms of football using rules derived from both rugby (rugby football) and association football (the sport that came to be known as soccer). And by the turn of the century, American games of football had evolved and adopted so many new rules that they barely resembled U.K. football. By that time, however, the name "football" had already taken a foothold in America, and it was here to stay, according to the Pro Football Hall of Fame. https://www.wboy.com/sports/why-is-football-called-football/