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Originally Posted by GatorB
Quit the hate. More like jealousy. Americans call it soccer not football. Get over it. Please start talking about "football" to Americans when you mean soccer and see how many looks you get. We're not changing the name. Listen in the UK fries are called chips and chips in the US are something completely different. Now if I'm in the UK I'm not going to go around telling everyone they need to call "chips" fries even though when you think about it fries are actually FRIED hence the name. And they certainly don't resemble what one would think chips should look like. So if I'm in the UK and I want fries I'm going to order "chips" no matter how stupid I think the name is.
Oh by the way I'm pretty sure Canadians would argue with you that Americans are better at hockey.
Honestly I'm not sure why non-Americans are so concerned that Americans call it soccer.
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No they are not, British chips are thick slithers of whole potatos fried, fries are mashed up and reconstituted potato. One of the main reasons why most non-US people get annoyed about the US calling football, soccer is proberbly because when finally the Americans get it, they will demand that the name gets changed to soccer worldwide.