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Perhaps include "(soccer)" in the title for those of us in the USA?

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mattmanser 6y ago
Not the rest of the world's problem you called a game that mainly involves throwing 'foot' ball for some incomprehensible reason. Are you sure about the name basketball? Don't want to call it sackball or something like that? Or maybe shuttlebasket? I always chortle at your "world" series too!
- mcphage 6y ago
  > Don't want to call it sackball or something like that? Or maybe shuttlebasket? What?
- bigbubba 6y ago
  Surely it should be called netball, since baskets haven't been involved for more than a century.
  - mattmanser 6y ago
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netball https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netball
- retsibsi 6y ago
  I was going to respond with the factoid about the World Series being named after a newspaper, but a Wikipedia check (and subsequent googling) revealed that it's probably false. Not news to you, but maybe of interest to others who, like me, had absorbed the popular misconception!
- pretendscholar 6y ago
  American Football is actually based on the delineation between sports played on horseback and on foot. So maybe it is an antiquated distinction but it makes sense. Maybe we can rename it infantryball.
bloodorange 6y ago
That's like saying 'Perhaps include "(France)" in the title' when talking about Paris. Football is well known all over the world and perahps the most popular spectator sport.
superfrank 6y ago
The author is from London and the internet is global. Expecting an author to cater to every other culture with everything they do is a bit self-centered, IMO. It should be on the reader to understand that there are differences, not on the writer to make sure every single cultural difference is pointed out. It seems kind of weird to expect him to alter his headline to cater to a country he doesn't live in. If you were writing an article about potato chips, it would seem kind of silly to expect you to add "(crisps)" in the title to cater to our English friends, so I'm not sure why you would expect that here, especially when the vast majority of the world calls it "football".
- darkerside 6y ago
  In fairness, it's not uncommon to specify "American football" for international audiences, so I don't think it's totally unreasonable. But on balance, adding a parenthetical word into a headline is just a little too much to ask. There's not much harm in bringing in someone who was expecting one but got the other anyway.
xapata 6y ago
I think it's reasonable for someone in the USA to expect that "Football" could refer to 1 of 3 popular games -- American football, soccer, or rugby.
bigbubba 6y ago
Why? Does it really matter what shape the ball is?

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Not the rest of the world's problem you called a game that mainly involves throwing 'foot' ball for some incomprehensible reason. Are you sure about the name basketball? Don't want to call it sackball or something like that? Or maybe shuttlebasket? I always chortle at your "world" series too!

mcphage 6y ago
> Don't want to call it sackball or something like that? Or maybe shuttlebasket? What?
bigbubba 6y ago
Surely it should be called netball, since baskets haven't been involved for more than a century.
- mattmanser 6y ago
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netball https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netball
retsibsi 6y ago
I was going to respond with the factoid about the World Series being named after a newspaper, but a Wikipedia check (and subsequent googling) revealed that it's probably false. Not news to you, but maybe of interest to others who, like me, had absorbed the popular misconception!
pretendscholar 6y ago
American Football is actually based on the delineation between sports played on horseback and on foot. So maybe it is an antiquated distinction but it makes sense. Maybe we can rename it infantryball.

bloodorange 6y ago

That's like saying 'Perhaps include "(France)" in the title' when talking about Paris. Football is well known all over the world and perahps the most popular spectator sport.

superfrank 6y ago

The author is from London and the internet is global. Expecting an author to cater to every other culture with everything they do is a bit self-centered, IMO. It should be on the reader to understand that there are differences, not on the writer to make sure every single cultural difference is pointed out. It seems kind of weird to expect him to alter his headline to cater to a country he doesn't live in. If you were writing an article about potato chips, it would seem kind of silly to expect you to add "(crisps)" in the title to cater to our English friends, so I'm not sure why you would expect that here, especially when the vast majority of the world calls it "football".

darkerside 6y ago
In fairness, it's not uncommon to specify "American football" for international audiences, so I don't think it's totally unreasonable. But on balance, adding a parenthetical word into a headline is just a little too much to ask. There's not much harm in bringing in someone who was expecting one but got the other anyway.

xapata 6y ago

I think it's reasonable for someone in the USA to expect that "Football" could refer to 1 of 3 popular games -- American football, soccer, or rugby.

bigbubba 6y ago

Why? Does it really matter what shape the ball is?