this post was submitted on 08 Feb 2026
688 points (98.6% liked)

Comic Strips

22012 readers
3266 users here now

Comic Strips is a community for those who love comic stories.

The rules are simple:

Web of links

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 4 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

I mean a sport that is played on foot rather than on horses ;)

If we do want to be pedantic then the list, 1-4, would be

  1. Gridiron Rules Football
  2. Basketball
  3. Baseball
  4. Association Rules Football

Better?

I went ahead and used the americanized shorthand of "football" for gridiron rules football and the british loan word "soccer" for association rules football (soccer is a an Oxford slang tradition of adding "-er" to the end of something to make it an activity, IE calling rugby rugger and footer for all forms of football. In that tradition association football became assoccer or soccer) since the context was "what are americans watching, and why are all of us engaged in this weird ritual where even if we don't care about the superbowl we find ourselves at superbowl parties?"