>>>>Saturday 9pm on ESPN - Colts-Giants NFL Championship Game - Dec 28, 1958
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>>>>http://www.cleveland.com/livingston/index.ssf/2008/12/in_color_or_black_and_white_th.html
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>>>>http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/feature/index?page=greatestgame
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>>>>Johnny Unitas. Raymond Berry, Frank Gifford, Pat Summeral, Alan Ameche, Art Donovan ...
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>>>What do you mean - (real)? It it were real then the foot would occasionally impinge with the ball
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>>Exactly. t's a common slang term here in the states that became more prevalent after soccer grew in popularity. It's meant to be humorous since obviously in American football, the foot seldom touches the ball. The foot does occasionally touch the ball though as you know :o)
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>There is no soccer. There is football and there is american football. I was like american football when I was a child. I was like men jump on the ball men-on-men. That's funny... :)))
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>Actually american footbal should be named as "jump on men ball" :)))))
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>Your team names are so funny too. We don't put names like "bears". We respect our teams... We usually use just our city names...

You probably already know the word soccer comes from England, not the U.S. You know, the country that invented the game.

I had not thought of team nicknames being amusing but can see how they might be from a different POV. The reason is probably that we have multiple team sports, not just one. A headline of "Chicago beats New York" wouldn't be very useful if you didn't know whether it meant football, basketball, or hockey (all in season at the moment).