Why is it called Football?..

November 27, 2007, 5:25 PM

Ok , so in defense,before someone asks me, why ask such a silly question.I'm not American, reason why I draw attention on, why call a sport that uses both hands and feet...FOOTBALL. Since I've only known America to call it Football and soccer respectively.
It should be called...rugby. A game that does involve all the elements of "Football", with out the padding too.

And soccer..(which is an ok name) should be called permanently Football.As prior to it begin a game that mostly involve...well the foot

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I know it's may comes off as a rant, but for argument's sake...why is the terminology messed up? I always wondered why.

November 27, 2007, 5:33 PM

Well that's not hard to answer. You kick the ball with your foot :/
Only the goalkeeper uses their hands.

November 27, 2007, 5:41 PM

Dunno, I just say Football for Soccer and American Football for.. well, Football XD

November 27, 2007, 5:45 PM

Because Americans just have to bastardise and fuck up everything that makes Britain so great.

Couldn't agree more that the world should call it football, since it's older than all other varieties, and obviously better.

November 27, 2007, 5:47 PM

A goal keeper only uses their hands...as part of the ruling as is the only one to do it within restricted boarders. So as such, the game is played...with almost most of the time...the foot...(maybe the occasional header and yorker like Ronaldo) but American football, uses the hand more than the feet, so...hence my misguided understanding of why it's called that o.0

December 2, 2007, 3:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Vicious Heart

I'm not American, reason why I draw attention on, why call a sport that uses both hands and feet...FOOTBALL. Since I've only known America to call it Football and soccer respectively.
It should be called...rugby. A game that does involve all the elements of "Football", with out the padding too.

And soccer..(which is an ok name) should be called permanently Football.As prior to it begin a game that mostly involve...well the foot

.

I like you.

I've never quite understood it myself but that's what they call it and that's that. I'm more bothered about the fact that they call football "soccer"

December 2, 2007, 4:31 PM

It's because of them we have to call it soccer too now, damn them!!!

December 3, 2007, 9:44 AM

I really couldn't tell you why it is called Football. I am American and I've always wondered the same thing. But American football was invented around the 1920's or even earlier. As for soccer, I couldn't tell you why for that either.

December 3, 2007, 12:25 PM

Actual football was first developed in the early 1800s, I think. You wouldn't recognise it as the sport it is today though, since it was pretty much no holds barred until the late 1800s.

December 3, 2007, 2:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Matt Bellamy

Because Americans just have to bastardise and fuck up everything that makes Britain so great.

Couldn't agree more that the world should call it football, since it's older than all other varieties, and obviously better.

^^ couldnt have put iit better myself

American Football is RUGBY only a more ponsey version of it and theres lots of hand contact with the ball....or whatever its called seeing as it's not actually a ball

I despise the term soccer, where did it come from?! Its FOOTBALL for christ sake. No hand contact is allowed unless your the keeper defending your goal.......