I am tired of the internet confusing them all, can we not stick with soccer being football and turn american football into something else more identifiable, such as "Toshing" or something : /

EDIT: I have no idea what toshing is, its just a word I made up I hope !

If football would just stay football ( and not soccer), then only American football has to be changed into toshing or whatever, no need to change both. More people favor the original football, it's just the one country confusing the names, they should change.

Lets just agree to call all sports soccer.

I say we rename the american one to hand-egg.

Funny enough, American Football would be better off named Blitzball, but Square already beat us to the punch.

Or perhaps Rugby-lite?

EDIT: Armoured Rugby?

Football is football, the majority agrees with that. Americans http://chzmemebase.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/internet-memes-americans1.png.

Rugby is in a whole 'nother league.
To quote Lee Evans, Rugby players are like "Bulldozers in shorts."

Indeed. Hence armoured Rugby.

That isn't entirely correct. The word 'soccer' originated in the U.K., a bastardization of Association Football. I agree it's ludicrous to call American football 'football' at first glance, however, the reason it's called thusly is because the 'ball' is a foot long, so it's not as illogical as it seems. Though I too find 'hand-egg' to be an infinitely better and more amusing word.

Sissy rugby

I know the british made up the word "soccer", but I've never met or heard any british person ever call it that. Nowadays it's just a term a minority of country uses instead of saying football.

And yes, hand-egg is an amusing word and it would be hilarious if they used that.

I'll just keep calling Football fooball, and soccer soccer - because that's how I was raised. What you fail to realize, rest of the world, is that we're better than you are.
Much better.
So much better that we do things how we like.

Deal with it.

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Virtually every sport ever has been called "football" at its inception. Ancient cultures that didn't interact with each other didn't have much need to organize them and make sure everything had a different name. As more games were invented, more names were too. The UK had "Association Football" and "Rugby Football", and I guess that was too redundant, so Association Football became soccer as slang. Then some of those Europeans floated on over and broke some things and made a new country while still calling the game soccer, and with that name I guess they didn't need to call the other one Rugby Football, so they just slanged that one down into football.

Some hundreds of years later I guess for the first time ever in history two different countries developed linguistically in different directions, so I guess we'd all better constantly make a big deal out of it since everyone knows the minority is always in the wrong for being different.

Rugby lite? Implying rugby is the more extreme sport?

If football players didn't wear padding they'd be seriously injured or killed (some are already seriously injured even with the padding). The padding is a necessity, because without it they wouldn't be able to hit as hard and it would be more like, well, rugby. Rough but not not on the same level.

We call our sport football because we care nothing about soccer. The only fanbase the sport has here are immigrants. The rest of the world can call it whatever it wants, because we just don't care.

That awkward moment where different countries are different.

I'll make the rest of the world a deal on behalf of all of America - Once Germany can use words that aren't frightening for things like ambulances, we'll start calling soccer what the French do.

c[_] < My care cup for sports seems to be empty.

The reason that we do not change the name of American football to soccer is purely because of the fact that America is stubborn. When talking about sports online, I always try to clarify if I am referring to American "football" / handegg, or if I am referring to European football.
America being founded on the morals of rebels and misfits, we tend to do anything in our power to go against the grain of international society just for the sheer hell of it.
Also, some may argue that American football is only applicable to the United States, so the terminology has no need to carry over into our language... stupid, i know.
The other thing that always bugged me is that the United states refers to themselves as America... it bugs me, but I can understand the reason behind it as it sounds better than "United States".
Yes, I have been born and raised in the United States.

Foot-ball: A game where you use your foot to kick the ball.

That's the only logical solution. Apparently it isn't this way right now, though?

Now, hold on a minute. Why should we American's change our sport's name to something else? Why can't you UK'ers change your sports name to, "People who stupidly kick a ball around for 9 kilometers".

Honestly, I don't like football or soccer. So I don't care what the two games are called.

First of all Football (soccer) isn't popular in the US as it is in other countries.
Second---I don't care for either sports although Football (NFL or AFC) is good to watch when there's not a damn thing on tv (not even a NASCAR Race).
Third-Why should the US change it's football name? Although it came from rugby our football is still our country exclusive sport and if we want to call it football then that's our buisness.

I like both sports and don't really see a problem with the names at all. People just like making a big deal out of small things.