Its all they can afford.

It was either this or Buzkashi.

agreed

It's always been amazing to me that, of the five major sports in North America, Americans love the two with the least actual on-field action and decry the others as boring.

Americans seem to prefer sports where each play is a short burst of meaningful excitement, as opposed to games where the players are constantly moving and yet nothing happens for hours at a time.

Also, soccer told me he was gay and likes to touch penis all the time.

Fouling off five straight pitches is meaningful?

Ah, I see your mistake. You think Americans still care about baseball.

Nah, we all know that game's boring. We just pretend to care because a lot of us still buy into the myth that it was invented here.

Baseball's only practical application is as a Freemason ceremonial magick ritual that maintains the sun's due course around the equator in time to the rise and fall of American commerce, and nothing more.

It's because the name itself doesn't have a whole lot to do with feet; "football" denotes that the game is played without a horse ("on foot"), as opposed to the various mounted games of the aristocracy. American football is the closest modern sport to Ye Olde football; soccer (or "associated football") is a much later development, and therefor, historically and etymologically speaking, Americans should continue calling their sport football, while the rest of the world should go back to saying soccer.

Yeah, that's not gonna happen.

But if all that's true, it's pretty interesting!

Why isn't soccer called "agony feigning?"

In addition to what EvilHomer said, the term "Soccer" was also invented by the English.

Plus, the English themselves were still calling it "soccer" clear up until the 80s.

There's an extremely neckbeardy (but none the less interesting) article on the subject over at Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_(word)

The clip was a wonderfully entertaining memory but your addition was icing on the cake.