See, there's always some drunken leatherneck in the discussion. The UK says we were first with the name, and thats true. Then one side or the other will start detracting from the PURE athletic skill and talent it takes to be a professional in EITHER game. Then one side will say, SOMETHING about how one side is a coward because they wear pads, or idiots for NOT wearing pads, then the core of the discussion is lost while each side insults each other. here it is in a nut shell, and this is how it will always be.
When 2 people are talking about about football, and theyre not Americans, NFL fans, or in the US military; they are talking about what us Americans call soccer, wich is REALLY football, because it came first.
DId we invent a game after soccer, and call it football? Yes we did. Is that game watched by 100's of million of people because it fun exciting and takes advanced athletic prowess: yes it is
Is Soccer watched by billions of people, and has been for centuries in some form or another: yes it is Do people watch it because some of th ebest athletes on the planet are playing in it: yes
in the end, We're argueing over a name.
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