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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 b
by 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 agoSurely it should be called netball, since baskets haven't been involved for more than a century.
- mattmanser 6y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netball https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netball
- retsibsi 6y agoI 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 agoAmerican 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.