On Sun, 03 Feb 2013 11:02:35 +1100, John J > wrote:
>
> That's because not everything is always exclusively about where you
> happen to live. In Australia they also say football when they mean
> some form of rugby. It wouldn't matter if there wasn't another sport
> that actually is football.

I didn't know rugby had more than one form! From my understanding,
our sport is referred to as "American" football by outsiders - which
is fine by me. I also knew that some sport played with a round ball
elsewhere is called football and I knew it was either soccer or rugby
- but they look the same to me so I can't tell one from the other.

I don't understand why anyone who isn't an American cares what we call
that sport. They don't live here, they aren't interested - so why
waste energy trying to tell us we're calling it by the wrong name?
Has any country adopted a better name for it? If they have, I don't
know what it is... but they certainly know that we call their
"football" rugby, so they're paying far more attention to our sports
than we do to theirs.

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