why have some people started calling football socker , it's football , the American game is GRIDIRON !!?
611727
its football everywhere its soccer in the us, canada, basically everycountry in the world where thet are crap at it and play with a odd shaped ball they run with their hands. Gridiron is just another name for that sissy sport. I like them to come and try playing rugby, they will get battered.
129074
http://www.faqfarm.com/Q/Why_do_they_call_football_'football'
498132
Why would you post such a question in "American Football?"
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
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.
349555
Because they have a problem or course.  Americans like the sports they invented and just for this reason they think US sports are the best.  But Football the original, not American football, has greater dimensions than any other sport, and that is why the whole world knows it's the best.
1110919
Please would everyone listen to Mr. Michael, these questions got to stop. You can argue that it is a football question, but it is not an American football question. This particular question doesn't even deal with Americans
340043
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.
1140129
OK I know that the English/Europeans call it Football because the game is played with the skills of the foot etc, but I'm an Aussie and we call it soccer too. I don't understand why you guys get so bent out of shape over what other countries relate to as the name or code of a game or sport. Countries are different and have different names for more things that the codes of sport. You call it football, we call it soccer, we say footy, you guys say league. It doesn't matter. Whatever it's called isn't the point, the point is the game and people's love and support for it. Celebrate our differences in language and grammar, it's what makes each of our countries and sports unique. It's not meant as an offence. It;s just the way it is.
1054998
As an African, i say soccer match, more precisely, "Football match". \nWho told the americans they cud change the name and call it soccer when you play the game with your foot? (look at the game they call football, tell me when you ever saw the players "foot" the ball!)\nSheesh......
670030
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.
628427
may be they dont know the difference like me ,for god sake you call the thing football and the game is played by hand
331975
Absolutely agree that it should be "Football",\n'cause that's the original name, and that's what the rest of\nthe world use, and it's really played with foot/feet.\n\nThe American Football should be called something like\n"tackle-ball" or "American Rugby" instead, 'cause they really\ndo not play it with feet much -- the main action is not\nkicking but passing & tackling (not using feet, but using arms\nand body, ...and body armours)...
870184
Hello, i'm david i used to live in europe for 15 years, i lived in the usa for 4 years now. I am a huge sport fan, when i was in europe i followed soccer and basketball. In europe american football is not popular at all, nba is making its case right now, but not the nfl. I think the only people who care about American football are American, but don't get me wrong i am a Chicago bears fan since i moved too america. The top two reasons i believe is that football is slow paced and there is two many commercial and it is called football
575629
first, for all the idiots who think "soccer" is solely American perhaps i should point out that Canada and Australia also use "soccer" rather than football. so before you go accusing Americans of being narrow-minded look in the mirror. football was the common term in America at the inception of our federation but due to the popularity of American football it was deemed wise to use an alternative term and because it makes absolutely no sense to have 2 "footballs" competing with one another (same goes for Canada and Australia).
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.
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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