Why is American Football named as such, why do Americans refer to European Football as Soccer, and why does it seem to be a touchy subject between both fanbases?

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Why is American Football named as such, why do Americans refer to European Football as Soccer, and why does it seem to be a touchy subject between both fanbases?

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At first in England there was association football, and rugby football. Well that was confusing so the British started saying soccer and just rugby. So when the US was naming stuff we kept their soccer name, and then since they weren’t using the football name we started using that. So now we have soccer and football. Soccer was their name, they named it that and now for some reason they get all twisted up that we still use their name for the game.