Why did they call it American FOOTball?

[Marc]

when they spend a vast majority of the time holding the ball or throwing it, only occasionally kicking it ala Rugby.....f***ing stupid fat YANKS!

 

[seagullsovergrimsby]

Americans see the shape of a rugby ball as a football , simples.

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

when they spend a vast majority of the time holding the ball or throwing it, only occasionally kicking it ala Rugby.....f***ing stupid fat YANKS!

Rugby is called football

 

[ATFC Seagull]

Association Football
Australian Rules Football
Gaelic Football
Rugby Football
Rugby Football League
American Foootball
Canadian Football
That weird annual match somewhere in Derbyshire Football.

What is your point?

 

[Marc]

alright then you pedantic bunch of sunday evening losers, why do they call a large percentage of games FOOTball when they barely suse their feet to control the ball?!?! why not call it HANDball or something....answer that EINSTEINS!!

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

alright then you pedantic bunch of sunday evening losers, why do they call a large percentage of games FOOTball when they barely suse their feet to control the ball?!?! why not call it HANDball or something....answer that EINSTEINS!!

Why is football called football when large parts of it is played by use of the head ?

 

[Don Quixote]

Handball is already a sport!

 

[ATFC Seagull]

alright then you pedantic bunch of sunday evening losers, why do they call a large percentage of games FOOTball when they barely suse their feet to control the ball?!?! why not call it HANDball or something....answer that EINSTEINS!!

No idea - but the term is ancient and comes from England well before football as we know it now - so stop blaming foreigners!

 

[Marc]

Why is football called football when large parts of it is played by use of the head ?

lol you're playing it wrong then

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

lol you're playing it wrong then

Im actually Mr Woo

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[gullshark]

Cause apparently a Yank egg is a foot long.

 

[philsussex]

when they spend a vast majority of the time holding the ball or throwing it, only occasionally kicking it ala Rugby.....f***ing stupid fat YANKS!

Fuckin boring stupid shit crap game. HATE it

 

[Acker79]

Because all those different types of football evolved from the original game of football, even if the majority of the play now involves hands rather than feet.

 

[chez]

Fuckin boring stupid shit crap game. HATE it

What rubgy? Yeah I hate it as well. American football on the other hand is a great game.

 

[HseagullsH]

Im actually Mr Woo

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That is class

 

[Southover Street Seagull]

I read something somewhere (wikipedia I think), which said that sports had the word football in them as this was used to make the distinction between poor working class sports played on foot and upper class sports played on horseback.

 

[Juan Albion]

There are perfectly good reasons why it is called football - but why is it still called a 'touchdown'?

 

[bhaexpress]

There are perfectly good reasons why it is called football - but why is it still called a 'touchdown'?

It's called FOOTBall as it's based on Rugby FOOTBall although few Americans realise that. They have a 'Touchdown' because in Rugby you actually have to touch the ball down for a Try. Granted, I have pondered just how different the game would be if a ball had to be actually 'Touched Down', you would not get as much passing for a start as many Touchdowns are scored by a player catching the ball when only their feet are inbound. In the NFL both feet have to be inbound where as at the Colegiate level only one foot needs to be inbound.

 

[Mellotron]

 

[Icy Gull]

f***ing stupid game. I'm guessing it is possible to go your whole career in American football without even touching the ball with foot or hand once? Stopping other people playing seems to be the major raison d'etre for 90% of the team.