Can only speak for myself, but I don't like it because it shows a bit of an unwillingness to immerse oneself in the essence of the sport, as well as a tendency to not adapt to a foreign culture, which is sadly pretty universal in American society right now.

For me, if you're going to play football, call it football, if you're playing golf, call it golf. I understand the term's origins and I can accept that it is for that history and lineage which is why it has been accepted as colloquial in America, but it's quite simple really: footballers call themselves footballers, and having been doing so for decades.

By way of a metaphor, I joined an American Football team at university, and went to London to take part in a camp organised by the NFL. Whilst there, I quickly realised everyone was calling it football, not American Football, as I had been doing.

I learned that when you're partaking in a sport, or engaging with a community, you should use the terms that are already most popular or already in existence. Damn I mean, I, a lowly student, am not so important as to change what those people were calling American Football, hell, I was at a camp full of them, the only sensible thing to do was to start calling it football.

On this subreddit, people don't discuss the Arsenal - Liverpool game as a soccer match. The vast majority of us use the term football, so why not just stick with it? Sure, you're used to something different in America, and it's probably inconvenient but that doesn't mean you can't change. It's part of interacting with other communities, cultures and people, is that it is you, not the community that has to learn to adapt.