• AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
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        6 hours ago

        As I understand it, it was because they had multiple leagues of various types of football, and they were trying to differentiate soccer from the other leagues.

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            And the American sport whose full name is “gridiron football”. And the Irish sport whose full name is “gaelic football”. And the Australian sport known as “Aussie rules football”. And the Irish-Australian sport known as “compromise rules football”. And…