The Ball Is Hardely Ever Kicked And Don't even think about calling football soccer
2006-07-13 12:00:15 · 19 answers · asked by sheepyy1983 1 in Sports ➔ Football (American)
first off soccer is to be called soccer
second we should have the right to chose what we call our sports and our football players will kick your soccer playing a$ses
2006-07-13 12:28:59 · answer #1 · answered by Tom K 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
AS Know It All said, American Football is simply known as Football. How it got its name may have different orgins. One is that the ball is 12 inches or one foot long. The other is that during a soccer game, a player got so frustarated that his team was losing that he picked up the ball and ran the length of the field advoiding all those who tried to stop him and threw the ball into the goal.
However, the word Soccer was made up by the English back in the day in which they still called Rugby, Rugby Football. Soccer came from the word Association which described soccer being played by Association Rules. Therefore, when one was asked to play football, one would reply, "soccer" or "rugger."
You do bring up a point that in American Football that the ball is hardly kicked, it makes me question why we call basketbal "basketball" when the ball spends more time on the court then in the basket, and why baseball is called "baseball" when half of the bases aren't even used most of the time.
2006-07-13 16:05:04 · answer #2 · answered by freemanbac 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
American football so its not confused with fuse ball or soccer (or American Soccer) which is football in most other parts of the world (and possibly rugby, I'm not sure) Also American football is played a little differently than Canadian football. In the early days of American football the ball was kicked much more than in the present. Why is soccer soccer? It isn't socked. Maybe it should be called head-butt ball.
And if I may, I'd like to call attention to Jason's (Jason below) use of the English language he so disparages. How sad.
2006-07-13 12:06:21 · answer #3 · answered by Rick 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You all need to layoff American people. The government may not be 100% all the time but look what we've given the world. What has your country done?
Electricity, telephones, cars, computers and the the Internet - everything you're using right now.
Regarding football's origin, it was a variant of 'soccer' and rugby. Americans sometimes like going against the grain. It's the same reason we drive on the right side of the road and don't use the metric system - to differentiate ourselves from Great Britain and the rest of the world.
2006-07-13 14:58:30 · answer #4 · answered by Fosco33 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Football, until the forward pass was created, used to be a game where people just ran the ball. It's called American Football because European Football is a tad bit different.
2006-07-13 16:49:47 · answer #5 · answered by mark b 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually, soccer is a very strategic game, at least as much so as American Football. You can't just run across the pitch alone towards the goal and shoot, that's offsites. You have to be able to move your team forward together, passing the ball from one player to another, until a player can find a space through the enemy's defences and kick the ball into the goal. Soccer is a strategic, fast-paced game. At times it can be boring, but with good players, it can turn from boring into extremely fascinating and interesting in a nanosecond.
2016-03-27 04:16:29 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because they adapted the rules. It stems from a combination of soccer and rugby. It was more simple to just keep the name football as the way the game was played changed in this country.
2006-07-13 12:33:06 · answer #7 · answered by sseleman10 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
we DON'T call it american football, we just call it football. it's the one and only football as far as we're concerned. we don't know how it came to be known as football and we don't care, it just is what it is. it's been called football since walter camp developed the modern game in the 1870s, now here it is 130 years later and you want us to change what we call our favorite sport? it's not gonna happen, so deal with it. football is football and soccer is soccer, the rest of the world can call it whatever they want
2006-07-13 12:17:07 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
What difference does it make. It's there game and they call it what they want. Why do you call soccer football? When they use other parts of there body, not just the foot. Why can't it be called bodyball?
2006-07-20 01:38:52 · answer #9 · answered by jean 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I though that they just called it football as in "Monday Night Football" and they call real football soccer.
2006-07-13 12:06:27 · answer #10 · answered by Auld Bawsack 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋