I know us Brits make lots of jokes about it not being 'real football' but I would genuinely like to know how it got the name, because seeing as the ball isn't actually kicked very often, it's not an obvious name for it.
2006-06-25 22:46:47 · 12 answers · asked by Good Monkey Ten Bananas 5 in Sports ➔ Football (American)
Because that's the way it is.
2006-06-26 04:11:14 · answer #1 · answered by Dusty 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are many different games of football.
Association football
Rugby Football
American Football
Austrailian Rules Football.
All are based on "football" a game played in the middle ages in England where rival villages used every means possible to get a pigs bladder into a certain village. People enjoyed this thorughly violent game and it became more civilised and was eventually played at public schools.
Each public school had different rules for football. Rugby school had different rules to the Cambridge based schools. Rugby football stems from when William Webb Ellis ran with the ball in hand, although most team in the country allowed anyone to handle the ball before then.
Assoctiation football is based on a set of rules drawn up in Cambridge so Cambridge based schools could play each other.
American football is the version which developed in America after colonisation. And the same is true for Aussie Rules.
2006-06-26 06:08:02 · answer #2 · answered by kingpaulii 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because the original ball was 12 inches long. Seriously.
2006-06-26 07:39:03 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thats true, the original size of the ball was a foot long so they called it football.
Ta Ta Toothy....Ma Ma Monkey
2006-06-26 09:36:57 · answer #4 · answered by J-Far 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because the ball looks like a foot
2006-06-26 11:41:02 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
they run around with an oval thing(they call it a ball) that looks like stewies head from family guy, and they still think its called football ,this is how thick americans r,look at george bush,say no more!!! plus the footy players r padded up head 2 toe(real tough guys) look at rugby and see how tough these fella's r compared 2 american footy players
2006-06-28 13:17:14 · answer #6 · answered by nevillebartos 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Because Howard Stern says so - Bababooey
2006-06-26 09:31:29 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Crucial move is always through foot hence called foot ball
2006-06-26 05:50:47 · answer #8 · answered by Dipesh Sheth 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because you can kick an american football.
2006-06-26 13:12:00 · answer #9 · answered by North Dakota baseball player 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because some idiot named it that and we didnt take the time to change it.
2006-06-26 05:50:16 · answer #10 · answered by jacobplano 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋