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Originally Posted by tweetiepooh
Thanks for the detail.
Still seems to make some sense to use Soccer as an unambiguous term for association football and let the colonies use Football for their games. Even though there is more "foot" in soccer than the others.
Why is it a touch down in gridiron when they rarely touch the ball down. Probably history - I'll have to look it up.
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Would have to disagree with you - American Football (hand-egg, really) is played professionally in the USA, Mexico, and Canada, whilst football is played professionally in most countries in the world - I think we have dibs on the word...