Quote Originally Posted by suhl
who really cares what the name is. do people fly around on rugs in rugby?

it is a name. get over it
Rugby has already been explained to you so I won't bother with that , however your lack of understanding of what a language is forces me to point out the obvious.
A word has to have a specific meaning otherwise we would never understand each other,you can't just go switching the meaning of words around it just causes confusion and a garbled language.
The Dutch call a horse a PAARD now if you walked up to an American rodeo and said "thats a beautiful paard" the person you were speaking to would wonder what the hell you are talking about.
Football - A game invented in England therfore I would say that when the Americans invented thier girly version of Rugby they should have known better than to use the name of an existing and very different sport.

Simple enough explanation of why words need a meaning that identifies ?