I mean seriously how can you call a sport Football if you only use your feet in a desperate situation and 90% of the time it is either thrown or passed along.
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Why do they call it American Football?
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Why do they call hockey hockey? It needs no explanation. It's just what people call it sometimes. No one is more right than another. It's like complaining that a tiger is called a tiger when it should be called "large striped mammal" or something.
EDIT: Stop quoting me please D: I'm trying to say it doesn't matter, so don't get worked up about it. Why do you park in a driveway? Why do you bake cookies and cook bacon? What's the deal with airplane food? It really doesn't matter.
EDIT: Stop quoting me please D: I'm trying to say it doesn't matter, so don't get worked up about it. Why do you park in a driveway? Why do you bake cookies and cook bacon? What's the deal with airplane food? It really doesn't matter.
Because every game starts with a kickoff. That may not be the real reason why, but it works for my purposes.voetballeeuw said:
Because Football started out as a variation of Rugby which started out as a variation of Soccer. We just never changed the name and adopted the British term for "Football." That term is soccer.
"On a crisp fall day in 1823 William Webb Ellis picked up a football in his hands and ran with it. To this day, backs throughout the world hail this moment as the birth of rugby. Forwards, however, know that the game was not really invented until 1.5 seconds later, when Roland Dimrumple drove a squealing Mr. Ellis' face into the turf, kicked him in the solar plexus and told him to "keep his sodding hands off the ball."
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Football developed from that in the mid 1800s.
Another acceptable term for the sport is Gridiron.
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"On a crisp fall day in 1823 William Webb Ellis picked up a football in his hands and ran with it. To this day, backs throughout the world hail this moment as the birth of rugby. Forwards, however, know that the game was not really invented until 1.5 seconds later, when Roland Dimrumple drove a squealing Mr. Ellis' face into the turf, kicked him in the solar plexus and told him to "keep his sodding hands off the ball."
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Football developed from that in the mid 1800s.
Another acceptable term for the sport is Gridiron.
That made me laugh.
But seriously, I don't know. Funny thing is, when I first heard the term "American Football", I thought that they also called actual football "American Rugby".
Ah, Naivety.
But seriously, I don't know. Funny thing is, when I first heard the term "American Football", I thought that they also called actual football "American Rugby".
Ah, Naivety.
Because we Americans are a very weird people. They feel they always have to be different (for more examples on this topic, please watch Yahtzee's most recent review.)
Right, you use your feet while playing football.
Except for when you don't; like when you do a headbutt, or bounce the ball off your legs, or off your chest, or if your a goalie and you pick the ball up and kick it, or when you're on the sideline and you pick the ball up and throw it.
But other than that it's done entirely with your feet.
Except for when you don't; like when you do a headbutt, or bounce the ball off your legs, or off your chest, or if your a goalie and you pick the ball up and kick it, or when you're on the sideline and you pick the ball up and throw it.
But other than that it's done entirely with your feet.
i'll just say get off your high horse (in the nicest way possible). also i'm guessing no one here knows exactly why it just is. also there is already a sport called hand ball.
EDIT: on further review of the play you said "handegg" the call is revised, first down.
EDIT: on further review of the play you said "handegg" the call is revised, first down.
^Seconded.ProfessorLayton said:
I dont know. I guess cause handball is something completely different. Besides,I prefer to call it Gridiron if I call it anything besides American Football.
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I love this. This just made my day.KenzS said:
Um, because you use your feet to run, and there's a WHOLE lot of running in (both types) of Football.
Actually, you mainly use your legs to run, but football sounds a lot better than legball. That just sounds... wrong.
Actually, you mainly use your legs to run, but football sounds a lot better than legball. That just sounds... wrong.
The US is not alone in this. Australian Rules Football uses a hand egg. Gaelic football uses a sphere, but also allows hand carrying. Those sorts of games have a lot of variation.
Anyway, according to wikipedia, that very reliable source, in the word football, "foot" refers not to kicking, but playing the game "on foot" rather than "on horse" -- and is apparently of medieval origin.
Anyway, according to wikipedia, that very reliable source, in the word football, "foot" refers not to kicking, but playing the game "on foot" rather than "on horse" -- and is apparently of medieval origin.
