Why do we call our football “football” when we hardly ever use our feet? I’ve never understood that. It should be called throwball, runball, touchdownball or something like that. So when a student asks me why we call American Football “football,” I respond with the #2 old standby “I don’t know.”
Thank God for the Canadians. They have Canadian Football, which makes having American Football not sound so silly. We have different rules, but at least there are two of us saying it wrong. I wonder what Canadians call soccer? Do they play soccer?
Anyone who is not interested in soccer raise your hand. ME!! It may be because I have had 80 kazillion billion students who only write and talk about fútbol (aka soccer). Although it was hard not to be engrossed with this year’s World Cup.
Now if we had an American Football World Cup, we would play against all the other countries in the world. I wonder who we’d play against? It’s a Common Core Math problem.
If you were to read a paper anywhere in the galaxy and find scores for the American Football World Cup, where would you be at 5pm GMT and where would the train arrive?
NOWHERE
Now show your work. What cognitive pathway did you travel to reach this answer?
Acceptable response – Two roads diverged. That’s a 4.
saneteachers 
Canadians do play soccer and call it as such, but I must confess that watching 4 year olds participating in it is truly the best way to watch it! 😉
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Yes, that’s when it is a true joy to watch.
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Reblogged this on saneteachers and commented:
It’s been a while, I have many more followers, and I want to prove to Paul @ https://captainsspeech.wordpress.com/ that I know the word Canadians cookbook I’m reblogging…..
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I had a really smart comment lined up and then you through a math problem my way and I blanked. Hold on.
I’m not sure why Football is called Football. I think it might have to do with rugby?
We call it Canadian Football just to differentiate it from you guys calling it American Football. You started it! Actually, we probably did. Our league is older, I think.
We call soccer, soccer. But the die hards call it football which drives me nuts. They just think were in Italy or England and have a pro team. Our soccer team in Toronto has been horrendous all 10 years its been here and people still support them and call it “footy”. Save me, I hate soccer.
Little known fact, more kids in Canada play soccer than hockey.
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Isn’t that blasphemy? Shhhhhh…….we won’t tell the hockey players.
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Hockey is so expensive for kids to play here. The equipment and registration fees are thousands and thousands of dollars. Plus they practice at like 7am because thats the only time they can get ice time. Soccer is just cheaper for parents.
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Here, too. Plus fewer concussions.
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Oh and rugby makes sense . Though rugby understand the turtley thing they do. And rugby isn’t that popular here.
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I knew nothing about rugby, then I interned for Rugby Canada a few years ago and learned some things. It’s so hard to explain. But it’s the toughest sport I’ve ever seen live. No body equipment. Saw two guys smack heads and heard it from the stands. One guy walked off with a bloody face.
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My knowledge of rugby comes from watching my university team and wondering why groups of men ran from one side to the other getting muddy and stopping and looking like turtles. I remember telling a friend that I had to learn the rules. Then I watched Invictus.
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Ok I’m going to sleep now. And once again my laughing at your blog woke up my husband.
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haha I feel (mildly) terrible about that
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I have to learn not to build up to laughter like a volcano that finally erupts.
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How is it possible that I’ve had 4 visitors and only from USA and Hong Kong? No Canada? Time warp. And now sleep warp.
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Surprise! I’m from Hong Kong!
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Actually, I guess I can’t use that lie the same day I write about Canada. I read the post in my Reader so the view didn’t count, but I’ll go click around your blogs a bunch of times to make up for it.
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It’s so weird that Americans called it soccer… it sounds like sucker. Maybe that’s why they suck at “soccer”…
Here’s another problem
If a cow costing $95 gives 20 quarts of milk a day, how high can a grasshopper jump without getting out of breath?
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It’s udderly incomprehensible lol.
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Well, you just need to use a cowculator to answer it 🙂
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Moot point.
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Lol
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I think it has something to do that in the early days of football, kicking the ball through the uprights ie (field goal) was worth more points then a touchdown.
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That’s interesting. Now I’m going to look it up.
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I just, looked up and it appears to have been born out of a rule change in Rugby. My mystery is solved.
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