Why they call it Football and they play it with there hands ?
356145
Well lets see, its a foot long and its a ball. Football\n\nLets see, to start the game you use your foot (not hands) to kickoff. To get a field goal- you use your foot (not hands) to kick it threw also with extra points.\n\nPunts also are kicked.
474560
American football is something like rugby. In fact I wonder why they even call it football since they kick the ball very rarely. I personally find it very boring, most of the time the players just sit there waiting for the game to start again.
1122471
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.
443561
Because its a gr8 game.dONT WORRY LOADS OF PEOPLE ARE ADDICTED TO FOOTBALL.
129074
http://www.faqfarm.com/Q/Why_do_they_call_football_'football'
358736
Because people have differnt interests in sports.Football isn't the only sport most people play.Somedon't like it and some do.
765462
Alot of players use those bands for extra grip when they carry the ball.  But thats mostly running backs.  Others use them to make their biceps look bigger.
301951
It's because the term "football" in the US means American Football and not what the rest of the world thinks is "football".  It's the same way in Australia, "football" to them means Aussie Rules Football.  They say soccer just like Americans do.
1028229
they do it because they can  ...as I see it we started football they started 2 word wars .what would you rather be part of
721807
Because the entire world (with the exception of the USA) calls it football, maybe.  You use your feet, so "FOOTball," get it?
1001575
Precision amidst chaos.\n\nNo other sport has it to the degree of American Football.\nOne finger can change the course of a game in which 250lb + men are colliding at full speed.
998697
there's a difference between "hand ball" and "ball to hand". u cant help the latter. so maybe thats why.
4875
It is football.\nAmericans and Australians call their own "football" (the one played with the Stewie Griffin head looking ball) football, so they had to find another name for football.  \nI call American/Australian insistence on soccer cultural imperialism.
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...
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
432761
Football (cad/us) uses hands. Soccer (Football in the rest of the world) is all feet.
687502
Well, considering the Scots invented it, and called it FOOTball, cos you kick the ball with your FOOT, it kind of makes sense to me.  Less of the language please.