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Right. Likewise, American football and soccer are substitute goods as well. Americans don't dislike soccer because of any particular quirk of its scoring system
by hughprime 17y ago
Right. Likewise, American football and soccer are substitute goods as well. Americans don't dislike soccer because of any particular quirk of its scoring system, they just dislike soccer because they already have another sport which fulfills the same function. It's just a historical quirk.
- dasil003 17y agoHow is American football at all like soccer? It's much more like rugby, and you don't see rugby displacing soccer.
- hughprime 17y agoIt's like soccer in that it's an outdoor game that we play on an open field in winter. Doesn't rugby displace soccer? The only place I know where rugby is taken seriously as a spectator sport is Australia (maybe NZ and South Africa as well?), and sure enough soccer is a niche sport played by students and amateurs, only being seriously watched when Australia is competing in an international competition. In Britain, on the other hand, soccer is the main spectator sport in winter, and it's rugby that's confined to high schools and international competitions. Is there anywhere that rugby and soccer are both equally (or almost-equally) popular?
- jimbokun 17y agoWikipedia suggests all three (and other sports) have a common history, and that the word "foot" in the names of these games might have originally come from the fact that these games were played "on foot," as opposed to horseback games. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football#Etymology http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football#Etymology