@[email protected] to Showerthoughts • 1 year agoAmericans' most favorite sport is called football, despite it being played with neither a foot or a ballmessage-square15fedilinkarrow-up156arrow-down128
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink7•1 year agoAs far as I am aware, the foot in football originally referred to the fact that it was a game played on foot rather than on horse back (as opposed to polo for example).
As far as I am aware, the foot in football originally referred to the fact that it was a game played on foot rather than on horse back (as opposed to polo for example).