why you people call it football while you play it by your hands?
414289
when football was first invented it was similar to soccer and rugby, the early games where played by using a variety of techniques to score, a drop kick like what we saw doug flutie this year attempt on a extra point was rampent in the early years of the sport.  drop kicks were used so much in the early days and were worth two points.  most teams would settle on a drop kick to get points easily, but then the ball was more round like a soccer ball. the evolution of the american football evolved through testing to see how you could throw a ball further, now it has evolved into the passing and rushing game we see today, but years in the past the dropkick led the sport to be called football, rumor had it that while the inventor was visiting mexico he heard a word about the sport soccer or rugby being callef futbol and then brought the word back and dubbed american football.
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.
1102397
Well in the French language Football is soccer and Football American is "football". Its never made sense to me why we call football football becuase you only use your feet once... yet in soccer you can ONLY use your feet... hmmmmmmmmm
129074
http://www.faqfarm.com/Q/Why_do_they_call_football_'football'
303591
Because soccer or I shall say football is one of the most played games in the entire world, except USA. \n\nThe world is hooked on it, just like americans watch superbowl and would kill someone if anyone would try to stop them. Hence, football puts the fighting on the field with 22 players.\n\nIts an awesome sport if you play professionaly. I spent 12 years playing it, its awesome.\n\nFootball is diplomacy with balls!
689435
The real name is Football, as it is a game where the foot actually kicks the ball hence football, not American Football , where Steroid pumped rapists and drug users run around after a weird shaped thisng for a few seconds..
1039906
I do think alot of people think it is a guys game....I went to football tryouts in school and chose not to play. I just wanted to make a point...that girls can play if they really want.(and i am a small girl)
300631
I truly believe that it's a "stupid name" for this sports and people who are responsible for it should have find a better name like "throw ball"; if not smarter people in charge should have changed it a long time ago. I don't know why they pick the name, however I can tell you why they should not have:\nthe sports name usually gives a good idea of it: Hand ball, volley ball, foot ball... but then they come and call this sports that I love by the way football, damn it people stop going the opposite way of others especially when you are being "irrelevant".
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??
392115
I think it is already starting to happen: you hear the word "football" used more and more in American television, media, advertising and casual conversation.  I think the word is almost naturally gaining acceptance, albeit slowly.  I've noticed also that people are starting to refer to American football as NFL football, just to differentiate.  Given the power of global communications, ie the Internet, now, I think that over time the word football will come to mean only one thing everywhere in the world:  the game played with the feet...and that's as it should be... :-)
683153
Could it be because Americans are clueless? American football is a game where the ball is predominantly thrown or carried the ball gets kicked far less then it is thrown or carried.In the rest of the world Football is called football because a ball is predominantly kicked.
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.
120060
5 reasons\n\n1) u kick a football to start the game\n2) u kick fieldgoals\n3) u usually kick a PAT after a touchdown\n4) becuase people used to dropkick a lot\n5) onsides kicks sometime determine games
1171882
I think soccer should have been named "football" as well, because MOST of the game is played with the foot.  Why not call what we call soccer "football" and what we call football (american football) soccer? It avoids calling the game "handball" like has been previously mentioned, especially because you use more than just your hands in american football. \n\nAs to WHY we don't call it football, I don't know, but it would be more logical.  Too late now...
643056
Well technically Footballs are not round, they are weird shaped...oval really.\nBut as far as the roundness of it, it is so you can handle it better. and it throws better
434450
There's two parts to this:\nThe origin of American football is in the history of the world's most popular sport: soccer. When soccer -- more universaly known as "football" (which of course makes sense because soccer players use their feet) -- participants decided to change their centuries-old game with restrictions such as the no-use of hand rules, people who disliked this broke away to create rugby. In the states we have created our own version of the game under the same old name "football" with more of a rugby style, the whole time forgetting why we call it that.\n\nThe 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.
1099097
My sentiments exactly. Football (soccer) has been around far longer than American football, so I fail to see why the rest of the world should start calling football by a different name to fit in with one country. American football involves the hands rather than the feet, so why it is known as football anyway is beyond me.\n\nThe hint is in the quote you gave; ''when is the rest of the world going to get the terminology right?''  I suggest that if the whole world except one country calls them footballers, then this is the correct terminology.\n\nTo me 'soccer players' will always be footballers.