Quote Originally Posted by NeedSomeAnswers View Post
Let me explain a little further, imagine you went to Canada and you found that instead of calling American Football, Football or American Football they instead called it something else like Throw-Egg ! (There was an excellent post by one member on this forum in fact explaining why American Football should actually be known as - ThrowEgg), my post was just a reaction to that and i was attempting to humourus !!
I wouldn't care a whit. I certainly wouldn't feel insecure about it, as so many Brits are. (Ably demonstrated by you.)
Also i would like to hear about these so called football type games created by our former empire. I would be really interested if you could name 1 other than American Football (which is derived from Rugby anyway).
The NFL, the Canadian Football League, and Australian Rules Football. That's three countries that created their own, "real" football as defined by me.
What i find funny is that actually i am more of Rugby fan than football and if you have ever seen a game of rugby, apart from that fact that you cant through the ball forward (think lots of laterals) it actually has some similarities to American Football !
Rugby's pretty good. Those guys are definitely nuts enough to count as real football. None of that rolling around on the ground pretending that you've been mortally wounded that's so prevalent in soccer.

The reason soccer fans get so insecure is that ALL football including rugby was originally derived from soccer. That's why there is so much resistance to change in the sport. Everytime someone makes a change, they realize a few more changes would make it even better and then blammo you have a whole different sport that only bears the most trivial semblance to soccer. And then those new sports immediately and forever become much more popular than soccer in those countries. So yeah, I get the insecurity. I just find it funny.