david beckam

[HERBZILLA88]

it is totally stupid to call soccer a pussy sport because there is not as much contact as in football. if that were true then basketball and baseball and pretty much all other non contact sports are not manly gmaes.
bodybuilding is where its at!!

[Synthesizer Man]

who really cares what the name is. do people fly around on rugs in rugby?

it is a name. get over it

Rugby is a place in Warwickshire. That's where the sport was invented and gets its name from.

[suhl]

but no rug contacts the ball. its fucking ridiculous i mean the word rug is right there in the name but there is minimal rug contact to the ball. oh my god what an outrage no rug is touching the ball but it is in the name of the sport. call football shitball for all i care it is still the best sport there is

[psychocat]

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 ?

[teknonra]

no. it's called rugby because the first time it was played was in the town of rugby