I mean, football was already taken. The only times you use your foot is either for the extra point, giving the ball away after a touch down, when you want to get three points because you're settling instead of going for the touch down, or when your afraid that the other team will take it on the fourth down so you want to put them as far away from their goal as possible. So why do you call it football when only about 15 minutes max out of a 2 or more hour game has nothing to do with your foot as opposed to real football where you almost always are just kicking it?
2006-07-25 08:47:21 · 11 answers · asked by basicallywill 1 in Sports ➔ Football (American)
try this...
Nov. 6, 1869, when Rutgers and Princeton played a college soccer game. The game used modified London Football Association rules. During the next seven years, rugby gained favor over soccer with the major eastern schools, and modern football began to develop from rugby.
2006-07-25 09:08:02 · answer #1 · answered by dave z 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
American football arose from versions of English rugby football during the 1800's. As the sport's popularity eclipsed association football and rugby football, here in the states, the game became just football, and soccer and rugby were left to themselves.
Also, based on the wikipedia article, organized football, whether association or American, seemed to rise up at about the same time. I think the use of the word has less to do with the use of the foot and more with the common roots of the game and word usage in North America.
2006-07-25 16:08:46 · answer #2 · answered by redwolf7782 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually, the US started calling its game Football before the British called your game Football. Ours was named after the length of the ball. Meanwhile you called your game SOCCER because it was originally known as ASOCCiation ball. Only in the 1920s did you start calling it football.
And are you such an insecure nincompoop that you have to worry about this?
2006-07-25 16:06:22 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Our game is your game just evolved twice. First the whole Rugby thing happened over in England, then some universities refined that game further.
The real question is, why are you still playing a game that, by comparison, is not yet walking erect?
2006-07-25 16:06:43 · answer #4 · answered by Rob B 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not sure, but I think it could be because the field is measured in yards and feet. We often consider it 'a game of feet and inches'. because one foot can make a huge difference
2006-07-25 15:51:47 · answer #5 · answered by lexie 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
what do u want us to call it then? runball? why is soccer called soccer? why is the sky blue? why do you ask stupid questions? why is this thing im lookin at callled a monitor?
WHO CARES
2006-07-25 17:43:31 · answer #6 · answered by tha bay where we hyphy & go dumb 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
actually, if i'm not mistaken, they use their feet every play......to run. it's the most popular sport in the US. why do you care what it's called? we like our sport just fine, and can't stand your sissy sport, that we call soccer. get over it.
2006-07-25 16:11:50 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
hey euro trash...why is cricket called cricket? It has nothing to do with a damn cricket. You are a fool.
2006-07-25 15:57:28 · answer #8 · answered by endosmoka 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why do you call yourself a sports fan when you are gay?
2006-07-25 15:51:46 · answer #9 · answered by Dusty 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Paperback has it right
2006-07-25 17:16:35 · answer #10 · answered by freemanbac 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋