"Soccer"

[TinFoilHat]

 

[TinFoilHat]

Football: A game where players use their feet to kick a round ball into a goal

American Football: Glorified Rugby with helmets and shoulder pads because the Yanks are pussies.

Soccer: A term coined by soft, sissy, girly, french, nancy, bender, Man United supporting poofs! ©Gene Hunt

 

[KS55]

And then they mangled both by creating the worlds most boring sport to watch ever

Rugby with 200 scrums. Brilliant!

 

[Vienna_70]

It’s soccer down under also…

Because of Aussie Rules.

Any country that has a game with the name, "football" in it is going to refer to football as soccer.

Gaelic football in Ireland is another example.

As to the OP's question, I think Sky uses "Soccer Saturday," because it is alliterative.

 

[Koniec]

Football: A game where players use their feet to kick a round ball into a goal

American Football: Glorified Rugby with helmets and shoulder pads because the Yanks are pussies.

Soccer: A term coined by soft, sissy, girly, french, nancy, bender, Man United supporting poofs! ©Gene Hunt

Rugby players who have tried playing American Football have said it’s physically harder as they hit you harder due to the protection. And rugby is shite.

Fwiw Poland calls it soccer. But in Polish. Obviously.

 

[.db.]

Is there any rhyme or reason that American Football is called 'football'?

It’s one of the codes of football:

Association Football
Rugby League Football
Rugby Union Football
Gaelic Football
Australian Rules Football
Calcio Football / ‘Calcio Storico Fiorentino’
Gridiron Football
Medieval Football

Original medieval football in England rarely uses the feet to kick the ball.

 

[.db.]

I know that "soccer" is originally a British term that used to be used in the UK especially by the upper classes but has since fallen out of favor.

My question is there some rhyme or reason for the few times "soccer" is still used in the UK? For example, Soccer Saturday and the recently-canceled Soccer AM on Sky, or the fact that City ran what they called "soccer schools" until recently - they appear to now call them "football schools." Barrow fans have a song that includes the word "soccer."

I've anecdotally heard stories of a few (much) older English folks also calling it "soccer," reflecting the older usage. Guessing this isn't very common?

You’re right in saying it ‘soccer’ was an upper classes thing.

They distinguished association football from rugby football with the posh sounding abbreviations ‘soccer’ and ‘rugger’.

Football was dominated by the upper class teams early on. Teams like Old Etonians, Royal Engineers, Wanderers and Oxford University dominated the early FA Cup. Their ‘soccer’ would have been a widely used term in their circles.

Then - much like the split between the two codes of rugby - northern working class football teams and footballers wanted to become professional and with the growth of working class professional football, the term ‘soccer’ fell away.

It’s still used in many examples like the ones you’ve mentioned, but it is never spoken in conversation. Where it is used, it’s just used to be a bit different or distinctive, and like others have said for alliteration.

 

[Big Swifty]

And then they mangled both by creating the worlds most boring sport to watch ever

No it's not.

Baseball is. They hit a home run and run round the ground. It's like a batsman jhitting a six and running up and down the pitch six times.

Barmy