why do americans call it football when its played using their hands?unlike football played anywhere else?
349038
because football is called soccer \nAmerican football is when we use our hands.. but we just call it football for short.
590180
Football.  We invented it (the UK) and named it, all before America was even discovered, and it's an English word.  So defo football, only americans and australians call it soccer (wrongly).\n\nAmerican football they use their hands as do AFL players so its hardly football
461059
in Europe/south America/Africa and a part of Asia its called football.....in the USA its called soccer cuz they have another sport thats called football....of course the americans have no logic calling the american football football cuz it looks like a kind of rugby and u dont play it just with the foot....americans r idiots...
393018
well it's a ball you kick with your foot!\n\nEdit: english football, americans copied us!
748966
In England football (soccer) was the original ball sport played in many universities and colleges. The legend is that William Webb Ellis, while playing football at Rugby School, picked up the ball and ran with it this became a splinter-game called Rugby Football. When the English football league was established a number of these rubgy football clubs decided not to join in as the league did not recognise the use of hands as a legal method of play. Rugby became a popular alternative to football (soccer) but nearly all rugby clubs were called Rugby Football clubs. The game became immensly popular in America, but without a governing body to ensure uniform rules of play the nature of the American game began to significantly diverge from the Rugby played in England. Since the term 'Rugby' refers to the place where the rules originated it is understandable that the American sport adopted the word football to describe their similar but different game. In short American football was an offshoot of English Rugby football, which is itself an offshoot of the original game of football that the Americans call soccer. The word soccer is purportedly derived from "association football" and actually originates in England, but NOBODY in England calls football soccer at all, unless we have to dumb our programs down for American audiences. \n\nI also completely agree with you that football should only refer to the english game because (1) it is the original sport, (2) the American game has little connection whatsoever with the use of the foot, and (3) outside the US everyone calls this football, that's the entire world. I thought you guys believe in democracy? Billions watch not just world cup matches, but Champions League (the world's greatest sporting competition) and domestic competitions. Oh yeah, and American football sucks!
661344
Football is more diverse. Better foot control, positioning and you have to take the ball from your opponent without flattening them (if you can!)\n\nThe fact that you can't use your hands or arms to control the ball (unless you are a goalie) opens up to not only skill but tactical awareness, positioning, speed which are present in American football but football is more intense and it can all hang on just one goal.
1029427
No not just the USA. It is known as Soccer in Australia also as we have other games that are coded as football. Although football is the correct term, I don't get all caught up in that. It's not meant offensively to the game, it's just a cultural thing.
628427
may be they dont know the difference like me ,for god sake you call the thing football and the game is played by hand
431769
aussies play american football too mate, they call it gridiron over here.  \n\nAs far as the need for pads go, we hit harder and have more constant contact than either rugby or AFL.  The tackles in rugby and AFL are very soft by comparison.  I know, I've played.  They drag people down, they don't explode through them.  And there's no blocking in either sport.  Gridiron is the most physically demanding sport on the planet.
1069527
Football... Its more active and its a long game and american football is has shorter games i'm from england, I build muscule by playing football european ppl r fit cause they play football. American ppl play american football but they r still fat!
521792
Football (as the world outside of North America understands the game) is in the oLympics. American Football isn't. There are many theories as to why this is the case, but I'm sticking with the fact that nobody outside North America plays it.
761526
It aggatates me that americans call NFL Football because most of the game is based pn using upper part opf there body such as thier arms, they accasionally use there feet when they do a drop kick or whatever its called.\n\nWhereas in what they call Soccer truly should be callled Football beacuse the game is evolved around kicking a "FOOTBALL" and they use there foot to pass, shoot and cross the ball.\n\nWas this America's way of making a better sport then england?\n\nWhich England invented (football) - Soccer.\n\nwas they trying to make a alternate version with using no feet and keep the name??
903650
american football we should call it handball because its played with hands\nbut british football deserve that name and its the right name because its played only with foots
721807
Because the entire world (with the exception of the USA) calls it football, maybe.  You use your feet, so "FOOTball," get it?
1109467
I assume you mean, for us Americans, soccer.  If you were American, you'd know how very few outside America play American "football," and you'd say soccer.  You can't possibly be so arrogant an Amerrican (of course they are many) to think that American football matters elsewhere.  For all of the rest of the world, without exception and without a doubt, and I've lived all over, football, or per American English, soccer is the main sport.  People may play basketball, cricket, or tennis, but nothing occupies the sports scene like football.  It's the world national pastime.  Every kid in the world, boy and girl, with or without the right numbers of players or a stadium has kicked a ball trying to score, growing up.  Every country wants the World Cup.  Billions watch it.  The main sport on earth...
971685
yes because the football you are thinking of is european style better known as socer we have soccer in the us as well but the us football is played with our hands soccer is played with your feet
819854
The word "soccer" actually comes from England, where the   modern version of the game originated.\nIn England, there were two types of football: rugby football and association football. The slang term for rugby football was "rugger," and the slang for association football was "assoc." The word "assoc" gradually evolved into "soccer," which was much easier to say.\nWhen association football was introduced to North America, gridiron football (the type played by the NFL and in the Super Bowl) was already well established. To avoid confusion, Americans adopted the British nickname "soccer" for the new sport.\n\nGreg