Super Bowl Sunday Notification - Also "Tie in" end time speculation

DamnedDonuts wrote:
The Brits coined the term "soccer" and sadly many dont realize their own history. 8)

You beat me to it.

Funnily enough, the Americans, Australians etc. use Soccer for exactly the same reason as the Brits invented it ... so as to easily distinguish the various sports with "football" in the name. Like those other nationalities, we call the most popular version of "football", football and the others something else ... in the UK Association Football is called just "Football" while Rugby Football is called "Rugby" and in the US, American Football is called just "Football", while Association Football is called "Soccer" (because "Association" would be a stupid name).

Also, for me, "Socceroos" has to be one of the finest nicknames for any national sports team in the world, so it is worth it, just for that.