Original football is being called soccer, lets call american football a new name, how about fumball?
372703
I'm not a huge football fan but the name football doesn't make any sense because you rarely use your foot.  I think fumball is a gr8 name.
342622
I dont no what that is its called the super bowl and this aint called football its called soccer
409932
american football is not soccer
129703
Soccer is basically the American term for the game of football as it is known in the rest of the world.  What you call football, we call soccer.  What WE call football, you guys call American football.... or worse!
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.
1008684
FOOTBALL! That's a strange name for 'Padded Rugby'. I was born and live in the US and I confess I like 'American Football'. I'm a 'Jets' fan. But you are right. I always wondered why it's called football when it rarely uses the feet to play, actually it only uses the feet in four plays... Punting (when one team kicks the ball towards the other teams' part of the field when they have to give up possession). Kickoff ( at the beginning of each half and when the opposing team scores). Field goal ( when a team decides to go for 3 points kicking the ball over the goal). And Extra Point ( when a team kicks a field goal after scoring a 'touchdown' for an extra point).\nMaybe it has something to do with the reason Americans use inches, yards, miles, pints, quarts, gallons, ounces, pounds, Fahrenheit (temperature), etc.... Instead of the "Metric System" the rest of the world uses. \nAnd as obnoxious as it sounds people here don't care about it. They don't even know where Brazil is on a Map, they think it's in Africa somewhere....I'm serious!\nI'm Brazilian by heart and can tell you this... Futbol (Soccer) is the World sport and, unfortunately, the gringos have no clue. \nI used to hate watching american 'Football', but my brother was a fan so I had no choice but to watch it sometimes. It's a very interesting game once you learn the rules. Very strategic. Almost like a 'War Game'. You would have to know it, understand it, and "Feel" it to know what it's like... That's exactly what Americans have to do in order for Futbol (Soccer) to become a major sport in the United States. I hope I answered you question.
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
1120686
So tired of this question... \n\nWhy is the rest of the world so insecure because Americans have a game that is more fun than soccer and decided to call it football.  I'm thinking of starting a petition to change the official name of the American sport from football to:\n"THE GREATEST GAME IN THE WORLD AND TONS BETTER THAN DUMB STUPID SOCCER BALL"  \nWe'll still call it football for short though and insist that persons from Europe must call it by it's formal name.  Anyone want to sign up?  \n\nIf you are really interested in how American football got it's name, see the link below.  Everything you ever wanted to know.
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All of these answers are wrong.  The US did not invent the term "soccer" - the Brits did.  In the early 1800s, the game of rugby was invented.  In a football/soccer game at Rugby, a kid picked up the ball and started running around - the other kids chased him.  Eventually the game became known as "rugby football".  \n\nAt the time traditional football/soccer, teams played in an association (before there were any leagues).  To distinguish the two footballs, people called them "rugby football" and "association football".  In some circles, association football acquired the slang term "soccer" - an abbreviation for (a)socc football.  Eventually rugby football became "rugby" and association football was "football".\n\nHowever, some still used the term soccer.  The US is not the only country to call the game soccer.  Australia, Canada, and Ireland all have their own forms of "football" i.e. Aussie Rules Football, Gaelic Football, so they also call football soccer.
589583
You incorrectly called soccer "football."  Football is played in America and is a real sport.  Soccer is a game -- not a sport.  Anyone can kick a little ball.
559161
firstly "PLEASE CALL IT FOOTBALL NOT soccer"\n\nsorry yanks football in UK came first,and we play with it with the feet. your football is rugby over here.\n\nyou may get some enlightenment from the F.A. IN UK.
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American football derives directly from European football and rugby in the late 1800s and most likely, even though the rules changed over the past 120 years, the name stuck. "Soccer" is a contraction for the phrase "association football", a word I believe actually began in England, not America.
478686
What part of "Football (American)" do you not understand?  It's no secret that American Football is a gazillion times more interesting than soccer.  Soccer is the cure for insomnia.
229784
Football! Universal forget North-America though thats how it's supposed to be said!
68936
Spanish fútbol \nPortuguese futebol\nRomanian fotbal\nFrench le football\nRussian futbol (Футбол)\nSerbian fudbal\nTurkish futbol\nGerman Fußball \nNorwegian fotball\nSwedish fotboll \nDanish fodbold \nDutch voetbal\netc.\n\nAnd what's similar to soccer, other than sucker???\nSo...football is the word!!!
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This probably is not true but....\n\nFootball was going to be used for a new game in which players carried the ball with their hands most of the time in America.  Thus soccer was the name given to the previous game known around the world as football.
122573
Yes, but it is called FUTBOL!