• Madison420@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Soccer isn’t the only football it’s in a group of games originally called football which includes rugby. Technically to the rest of the world NFL style football is gridiron football.

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      2 days ago

      Let me interject for a moment

      what you’re referring to as football is in fact soccer/football, or as i have recently been calling it, soccer + football

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            1 day ago

            Mostly isn’t really involved, it’s just what you can do and honestly when gridiron was invented most plays were laterals and scoring was by foot. It was essentially rugby with different rules.

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      To most of the world football is what is refered to as soccer. Rugby and american football are their own seperate thing as far as I am concerned