2006-06-30 14:33:39 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Sports ➔ Football ➔ Other - Football
IM FROM CALIFORNIA!!! SHEESH!!
2006-06-30 14:38:45 · update #1
Because Americans are stupid...
2006-06-30 14:37:19 · answer #1 · answered by Lana 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Because some American dumbass started throwing around a pigskin and then started kicking it around, and then started calling it football because they'd already heard the name applied to some other sport (soccer). They thought they were playing soccer when they were really playing football.
Get it?
No, really, I think it's stupid too. In "soccer" you use your feet to kick the ball 90% of the time so that SHOULD be called football as other countries do. However, we in America have a way of distorting things and we like to confuse people by calling a sport where we only spend 3% of the game actually kicking the ball with our foot....football.
2006-06-30 15:21:08 · answer #2 · answered by it's me! 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
America wants to be different is the first reason, and the second reason is that America has its own football already. It would be confusing for people to have two types of football, I guess, and that's why in America it is SOCCER. I am used to calling soccer football because I am from Central Asia.
2006-06-30 20:47:08 · answer #3 · answered by lastochka49 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sorry, but calling soccer football is stupid.
Someone I know said "we should thumb our noses at soccer the way we thumbed our noses at the metric system."
Soccer is a dumb game anyways. A step in the right direction would be to get rid of the goalie.
2006-06-30 14:39:25 · answer #4 · answered by B.W. 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not really. We have another sport that we call football. We call what you call football soccer to avoid confusion. We call what you call a biscuit a cookie for the same reason. Is that really so hard to fathom?
2006-06-30 14:37:41 · answer #5 · answered by Guelph 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In Australia it is called soccer too, so as not to mix it up wit Aussie Rules Football, or AFL Football. In italian too, football/soccer is called calcio, but possibly translates into football or soccer. Not sure, cause we just say calcio in Italian, lol, and my grandparents call football "footaballa". lol.
2006-06-30 15:02:05 · answer #6 · answered by Ascoltare La Musica 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well maybe because they already have a sport called football. Now that i think of it, it is weird.. Because in soccer you kick the ball with your foot so it would be foot-ball maybe they just thought soccer would be more of an attractive name for the sport.
2006-06-30 14:47:12 · answer #7 · answered by num1em 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are all morons. Its a form of the words Association Football. WHICH WAS FIRST USED IN ENGLAND TO AVOID CONFUSION FROM RUGBY FOOTBALL.
2006-07-03 18:06:38 · answer #8 · answered by clockwork_oranje2002 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because in the US football is....football. What would we call football then?
2006-06-30 14:37:55 · answer #9 · answered by klah1 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is really stupid. It was one of those "lost in translation" words that every language but English has settled for it to be called the same word.
2006-06-30 14:37:38 · answer #10 · answered by j a 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it was a screwed up translation, and fyi^^ Soccer football was around waaaay before american football, so it wasnt to avoid confusion.
2006-06-30 14:39:19 · answer #11 · answered by i must be bored, im on Y answers 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋