Why is football called football if it is not played with the feet? why not throw ball or something more creati
463228
wow good question i have no idea
310321
Soccer is what the Americans call Football in order to differentiate it from "American Football" which is a completely different game.\n\nFootball is a British invented sport with a huge worldwide following now where two teams of eleven players try to kicj a round ball into the other teams net.\n\nAmerican Football has more in common with Rugby Football where two teams of players run with, carry and throw an egg shaped ball to each other and attempt to touch it down behind the goal or kick it over the goal.\n\nRugby football was invented at Rugby School in England when someone picked up the ball during a normal game of football and ran with it.\n\nThe origins of football are thought to have been in the middle ages when baying crowds would compete to kick the severed head of someone who had been executed around the streets.\n\nNot much has changed in europe!!
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US and Canada calls anything they want to anything. I have asked this question to so many people. Why do they call football as football, when most of the time they simply hold it in the hands and run. And why not call football (referring to soccer) just as the rest of the world.
443466
why do americans call football 'football'?\n\nthey dont even use their foot!!!
827728
i could give you a very good answer and explanation for this but im just sick and tired of people asking the same damn question over and over again.....email me and i will give you a good answer.......but if your just looking for a biased opinion on american football bashing then screw you........im just tired of always giving good answers and ppl picking answers that are to their biased beliefs or stupid one phrase answers....i know its just points but i put a lot of thought into answers and dont get the recognition for it\n\n\nok you challenged me and emailed me so i will give you the answer based on what i have read and what people have told me...and also theres several different reasons why it is called football not just one\nfirst i will use the help of wikipedia as most people do but i dont copy and paste because you could do that yourself and i wont insult your intelligence\n\nFirst you have to realize that when football first came to america the rules have changed over the years...american football comes from rugby...also called rugby football....they dont use there feet as much as association football but they still call it football.......but im going off on a tangent here...when football first came to north america it was played more like soccer than rugby....there was a great deal of kicking even more than rugby....they wanted to create a sport like rugby but had more kicking in it....the foreward pass only came out later and that grew more dominant than the latteral which was at first the only way(other than kicking of course) to score points.....another thing to remember is that football doesnt necessarily mean using the foot for the sports as said on wikipedia.....theres a strong possibility that it refers more to the fact that they play on foot....it explains that "football" was coined to express all sports played on feet by pesants during medival time so they can differentiate that from sports played on horses by aristocrates\n\nlisten the basic thing to remember is that there are a ton of theories and explanations for why football is called football when they use their hands but do you really think the americans are gonna change the name after so many years of history.......thats like saying why dont baseball players change their name to american cricket....i know football doesnt make 100% sence but the explanation is all in the history....either you live with it or not....sorry if i sound pissed but i've seen this question along with rugby players bashing football players calling it a pu$$y sport and that just gets me mad
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Because the entire world (with the exception of the USA) calls it football, maybe.  You use your feet, so "FOOTball," get it?
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.
583454
Well if we called it football, what would we call football?
645774
American football originated from soccer.Soccer is more universally known as "football"  because soccer players use their feet. Players decided to change the game with restrictions like the no-use of hands rule ....some players, who didn't like that, created rugby. The USA created its own version of the game under the original name "football" with more of a rugby style than soccer.Thanks for asking !
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I'm sorry, but for those who keep saying that you have to use your feet to run (no $#!#), that has got to be the most retarded explanation.  With that reasoning, then baseball can be called football, because you run around the bases, basketball can be called football, because they run up and down the court, tennis, bowling, and any other sport that you have to walk or run in and involves a ball would be able to be called football.  For those talking about punters and kickers, yes, they do use their feet to kick the ball, but how much time does the ball spend getting kicked? Not much, it really shouldn't be called football in my opinion, maybe throwball, passball, or maybe it should take on the word "soccer" instead.  And for the guy that said it's the most boring sport on earth, I think a few billion people would disagree with you on that one.
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Because its the greatest sport in the world.....you only really can appreciate football if you play football. Its not as easy as they make it look!! I have played football since i was 6 years old and nothing could ever replace the feeling that football creates. Its addictive!!
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Because it origianally came from rugby football.  Yes we changed the rules but kept the name the same.\nBoth American football and soccer have their origins in varieties of football played in the United Kingdom in the mid-19th century, and American football is directly descended from rugby football.\n\nThe word "football", when used in reference to a specific game can mean any one of those described above. Because of this, much friendly controversy has occurred over the term football, primarily because it is used in different ways in different parts of the English-speaking world. Most often, the word "football" is used to refer to the code of football that is considered dominant within a particular region.\n\nIn most English-speaking countries, the word "football" usually refers to Association football, also known as "soccer" (the name was originally a slang abbreviation of Association). Of the 45 national FIFA affiliates in which English is an official or primary language, only three (Canada, Samoa and the United States) use "soccer" in their name, while the rest use football (although the Samoan Federation actually uses both). However, in some countries, such as Australia and New Zealand, use of the word "football" by soccer bodies is a recent change (or a reversion to a long-abandoned name) and has been controversial.
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They should call it Gridiron football and not football as kicking the ball is such a small part of the game. (Like the British call their game Rugby football).\nSoccer does not get as much airplay as gridiron because they have to wait 45 minutes before the commercial break,(opposed to every 15 minutes with Timeouts with gridiron).\nI heard that the American sponsors wanted to turn football into a game of 4 quarters when they staged the World Cup (tm) over there.
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Because all variations of football- Soccer, Canadian, Australian, Rugby, American all evolved from the same sport. Actually, Rugby was the first "break" where they first started carrying the ball. Gradually, American and Canadian football evolved to the point where the "foot" in football was seldom used (at least to kick the ball), but by that point, why change the name ?
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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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The USA did not start playing football when the sport first gained popularity aroung the world. The reason for this was a form of rebellion against the British. When the USA was a new country it did not want to have anything the do with the British this included sports. The USA developed a new game that is now known as Football in the USA. When football gained some form popularity in the USA they had to give a new name here. Soccer. Where they got the name soccer from? That's a mystery to me.
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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.