I think american football is a kind of rugby. I think Americans should change the name and call it football instead of soccer
2006-06-20 22:16:36 · 12 answers · asked by Igor L 3 in Sports ➔ Football (American)
So tired of this question...
Why 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:
"THE GREATEST GAME IN THE WORLD AND TONS BETTER THAN DUMB STUPID SOCCER BALL"
We'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?
If you are really interested in how American football got it's name, see the link below. Everything you ever wanted to know.
2006-06-21 02:19:25 · answer #1 · answered by TeeDawg 6 · 0⤊ 3⤋
It is an evolution of your Futbol. Yeah that's right your game IS NOT football, I get Univision and they NEVER put football even though they put everything in Spanish. The orginal Football game started from futbol NOT rugby. I wish people would read up on these things instead of claiming it started from rugby. I agree they seem similar. ,Oh and not saying against the one who asked the question. Basically it started at a college game, the one team was losing horriable. I mean by score not the 1-0 that we now think is horriable loss. The player on the losing team got so upset he just picked up the ball ran at the goal and threw the ball in. Ok so obviously the goal didn't count but it made headlines. From there it got intrest and eventually evolved into the game it is today.
2006-06-21 01:46:08 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Im australian and we call it soccer too .
Its because we have our own versions of football in australia we have aussie rules that we call football and so that leaves soccer to be called soccer to us.
if the other european countries had another sport that dominated there sporting lives that they they kicked a ball around with different rules to soccer (or football as they call it )what would they name it?
we had our own games we kicked a ball with our feet so we called that football so we had to name the world game something so thats why we c all it soccer.
hope this helps.
2006-06-20 22:32:00 · answer #3 · answered by spudster 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You're not American. You wouldn't understand and for us to fully explain why would take too long. What you're basically saying is like why do the British call it snogging when you're f***ing kissing? It's kissing so they should call it that. Except with sports. Plus Americans are bullheaded. It's quite pathetic that the rest of the world hasn't figured that out yet.
2006-06-20 22:56:10 · answer #4 · answered by Leigh 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, we're not going to do that. The game evolved from a lot of footwork, to more of a playing game.
We'll never embrace a game that often ends in a 1-1 or scoreless tie. Therefore futboll=soccer.
2006-06-20 22:22:13 · answer #5 · answered by asu_mikey 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Whats the difference, soccer $uck$
2006-06-20 22:21:57 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
You call it football, we call it soccer.Who cares? Its a game.
2006-06-21 05:36:28 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Same reason they have "world series" events but only invite Canada.
They don't win in certain sports so don't want to draw attention to them.
2006-06-20 22:46:12 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is because, the Amrikans always feel that they are right and the rest of us are always wrong. Getting them to see sense will have to wait until hell freezes over.
2006-06-20 22:21:03 · answer #9 · answered by djoldgeezer 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
good question but you`ve been thinking that they gonna change the name at these time difficult don`t you think
2006-06-20 22:21:33 · answer #10 · answered by kejsi 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋