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Well… Not exactly blindingly obvious, now that you come to look at it. Let’s have a look:
“ Everyone calls it that, and, seeing how it more accurately describes our game than yours, and that we got there first… We still invented it, developed it…”
Firstly, the sport Football was actually invented in China centuries before England started playing it. It was called “cuju”, or “Tsu-Chu”. I haven’t done much research on the topic. but a cursory glance at my references seem to show this much. Which would lead one to think your were Chinese. And, even predating the Chinese – I once chanced upon one of the Rishonim Al HaTorah in Parshas Shemos/Vaeyra who speaks about the Egyptians playing ball games by the River Bank, and I am quite sure I decided that football was the most accurately described sport. So you could actually be Egyptian, as far as that post is concerned. [I’ll try find the source for the Rishon!]
And then the matter of “[We]are, right now, by far the best at using it” – there may be a problem with my computers calendar, but I highly doubt this post was written in 1966.
And whilst we are on the topic anyways – “You still call a sport involving very little foot action ‘football’. And no-ones answered that one yet.”
I don’t like doing this to you, but actually, the term “football” was not coined because of the foot-to-ball relationship which it quite accurately connotes, but because it is a game played with a ball while on foot. It was coming ?????? horseback, which is what many sports were played on once upon a time. Football doesn’t reference the action of kicking the ball, but rather the playing of ball while standing.