Rugby vs Football

The point is that language conveys meaning and Americans have deliberately misused terms or phrases either out of ignorance or possibly to make things more attractive. We have words like ball, sphere, globe and orb etc for things that are round and they are used linguistically in different ways to convey different meaning. The "ball" you use is a spheroid and it is used principally as a projectile and our football is using your feet principally to kick an inflated leather ball. If you had never seen a football match and came across American football and football this tells you more precisely the difference in how the game is played. So this is the purpose of language and different but similar words.

Imo I think a game with words like spheroid, projectile, catching, running do not promote it in the same way as football. And Bio I take your point about the world series being the pinnacle but its merely a selling point. It should only be applied to a truly global event surely. Its beamed around the world but i'm guessing that the majority of interest/viewers are from N.America (maybe S.America and Japan).

Anyway English has a habit of not following its own rules and using the same word in different way. whilst u guys confuse the hell out of us even more with your strollers, diapers, gas and phrases like take out and i'm good, i'm great etc I think I would rather u did because it makes life more interesting. At work I would much prefer to say "you're welcome" or "no problem" than customary English terms which have less affection. So ..anyway thats my nerdy post of the day over its back to Crysis. No harm meant though, its all good sh1t.....have a nice day!