Why Football is not football in US?
412282
Because in the UK and most of Europe it is Association Football.  In the US their football is American Football so they call AF soccer
1050553
Because Americans don't care anything about soccer. That's not to say soccer is a bad sport - we just prefer football, baseball, and basketball.
952095
yes american football , not none of that SPlC soccer (fut bol)!
1185520
Its only in america that soccer is called soccer otherwise go to other countries and you will find them calling soccer football. Infact i was surprised to go USA and found out that football is another sport altogether.
1013027
American "football" is simply excruciating to watch: stop-and-go "action", zillions of commercials, ludicrous uniforms (men wearing tights, helmets and sissy shoulder pads), euphemisms galore ("football" when the game is played mainly with the hands; "touchdowns" when the ball is not touched down; and so forth); artificialities, like those cheerleaders (who needs them?).\n\nNo wonder this "sport" is nothing but an excrescence, about as popular in worldwide terms as curling ...
859423
First American style football is not only played in the US, but also Europe has leagues, just to name one other location. Both fields are rectangular, with the sidelines (touchlines) being longer than the end lines (goal lines). Both have a midfield, but after these 2 things, it is pretty much over with what is alike.
498785
Because football mirrors the American psyche better than any of the other major sports. Americans find "soccer" boring because there simply isn't enough scoring. Baseball, which used to be America's game is much too analytical and the action is too intermittent. Basketball has become more of a "black" sport for middle America. Hockey is too much of a "Northern" sport.\n\nWhich leaves football which is popular in every region of the country.Actually, football is different than it was 100 years ago, which illustrates one of the reasons football is popular- the rules can be changed slightly or even in bigger ways to make it more exciting. In baseball, you can't change the rules without purists crying foul. In football, they change the rules in subtle ways almost every year to make it more exciting.
721680
It is just not the "IN" sport. Americans are different to the rest of the world. They want contact sports and/or high scores. Soccer is considered neither. World football is not shown much over here so when American think of soccer they think of that pathetic excuse of a league, the MLS. Because the MLS is boring and slow, they think that all soccer is boring and slow. It will take a while to become the number one sport but i think it eventually will. The problem now is the parents. Because they were brought up with baseball, basketball, american football, and ice hockey, they want their kids to play it. I actually know someone in America whose dad wouldn't let him play soccer! All it will take is for the soccer loving generation (in about the next 30 years) to have children and pass on their love for the game, then it will spread like a forest fire. It is definately becoming more popular but at my school, about 1500 people think it is a stupid sport. So that means that when they have kids, their kids will have similar views. One generation is all it will take.
1036910
Well... take it from an American. The football that you know and love isn't quite as popular here in the states as American Football. Good point made, it IS pointless that we call football soccer. I think America has a pride issue. We don't (as a whole) go nuts over soccer (football) as the rest of the planet, I wish we did, but we don't. I believe it's because we know we're not that great at it. \n\nAmerica only dominates the sports that we made up. And those are the sports that are most widely televised and merchandised, hence making them "more popular" than the world's sports. Soccer is truly The World's Sport. But, we must be stubborn.\nWhy do you think we don't use the system of standard weights and measures? We've got to be the oddball out of the world...
997781
football is a mans sport.... LOL\n\nyo! stfu u r a typical american talking crap as per usual!!\n\nYou wanna see a mans sport watch rugby or Aussie rules, similar to your "football" except that there is NO padding and NO helmets worn and the umpires dont stop the game the moment things get rough!!\n\nFootball (the real football) is a game of skill and stamina not about who can kill the other.\n\nSoccer is what americans call football because you call that other game football the one we (the rest of the WORLD) call American Football, which LouisLondon rightly pointed out has NO ball and no talented way of using your feet except to run.
869522
If this is a serious question, I will give you the real answer...\n\nWhen the sport was "created" it was called "American football" because the sport of the world at that time was "football" (what is called soccer in the US).\n\nOver time, soccer became a little known sport in the US, and the "American" became unnecessary, hence American football became football.\n\nThe term soccer comes from the "Football Association"... at one time, football split into two sports: what we call soccer, and rugby.  The Football Association endorsed regular football, so those who played football became "soccers" from "asSOCiation" and those who played rugby became "ruggers"\n\nBest of luck!
1002311
Poor things, remember what is known as futbol to the rest of the world is soccer to us and it American football that gets more support than American soccer.  Think about it.
817534
I am from England and i love to watch nfl. I play all the Madden Games and my favourite team is the Chicago Bears. I think there are a lot more Europeans that like NFL than there are U.S people who like soccer. But that is understandable with so many huge national sports anyway, unlike in England where football (soccer) is king and only a few other sports, like rugby, circket and tennis are followed. America has a lot of tradtional sports; baseball, basketball, amercian football, ice hockey, whereas soccer is a new sport in the states.
595626
Hard to answer, because in the USA football is a whole different game than the soccer games that other countries call football.\n\nYou can probably find the answer at the website below.
506191
Americans are Idiots thats why. As one I unfortunately live everyday seeing such things as Football called Soccer. It must stem from when the Pilgrams came over, they didn't want anything to do with England. Therefore they changed the name of England's beloved game to soccer. At this very moment I am wearing a nike "soccer" t shirt, if I wore one that said Football then these imbiciles would think I was talking about stupid "American Football". I think your right about changing it back to football, but americans are stubborn mules and won't change for anything.
430535
Because we already have another sport we call football. And it is AWESOME!\n\nP.S.\nF-ck dea_ro7 and duno.
799659
I'm assuming you mean American football, not soccer.\nWell I don't like football because\n1. in a two hour game there's usually only 25-30 minutes of game action. The rest is filler such as, huddles, time outs, replays, referee call, etc.\n2. Football pretends to be a really tough man sport but the players wear tons of padding and a helmet.\n3. OVERPRICED MILLIONAIRES Play this game professionally