is played with the hands
and the thing they use
is not
TECHNICALLY A BALL
2007-09-20 21:22:26 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Sports ➔ Football (American)
Well,we do have hands,so I dont see a problem there.Its a complicated game.Give it time.You got me on the ball thing.
2007-09-20 21:31:40 · answer #1 · answered by david q 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Basically, football has been around in some form or another for 100s of years. The British are the people who really embraced the sport. At the time, the game was played with a round ball and only feet were used. Then, in the 1800s (I think, it might have been earlier) a school in England (or thereabouts) named Rugby changed the rules and started carrying the ball and running with it. This split the sport into two games that they called Rugby Football and Association Football. The word Soccer is derived from the word "asSOCiation". When the game migrated to the US, the Rugby version became the more popular sport. People started playing it in college, sort of like an intramural sport. Then, some colleges wanted to play each other. When they got together they realized that they all had slightly different rules. So the officials sat down to write down rules everyone could agree on. Thus, our Gridiron Football was evolved! From Football (or Soccer) -> Rugby -> Gridiron. You can say that Soccer is Gridiron's grandpa!
2007-09-20 22:00:40 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Believe it or not it was a British soccer player who got tired of not using his hands while playing.
Somehow that evolved into rugby.
All Americans did was change it further into what we called football.
What technically is a ball anyway??
Where is it written that a "ball" has to be a sphere???
A rugby ball isn't.
American football is nothing more than good old American ingenuity. Get used to it!
BTW, spread the word to all the other soccer/futball fans!
This has been asked here over 100 times!
2007-09-20 22:08:25 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Rugby is technically called rugby football, aussie rules football, etc.. Football is derived from those games. It just happened to evolve to something completely different and it kept the name. Who really cares what the sport is called anyways. They could call it underwater poop flinging and I'd still watch it every chance possible. Here's a great question - why don't they rename soccer (football) flopball? Flopping seems to be the most prized skill in the game.
2007-09-20 21:31:39 · answer #4 · answered by DoReidos 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
what are you stupid? Football started as a violent offshoot from a soccer type game when a player in a Rutger-Princeton competition picked up the ball and ran with it, illegally. The rules of the game stayed a combination of soccer and rugby for some time, but the name football stuck.
2007-09-21 05:48:36 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, they do use their feet too.
And technically it is a ball. Websters defines a ball as
a. A spherical or almost spherical object or entity: football, baseball, volleyball
b. A spherical or almost spherical body: ball of fire
2007-09-20 21:51:48 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Its one of the mysteries of life.
There was a time when kicking (the drop kick) was a more prevalent pat of the game. Field goals without holders. Punting from outside the pocket.
2007-09-20 21:36:03 · answer #7 · answered by bahbdorje 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Look Alberto, if there are some idiot fans in America going onto your football section and taunting your fans, email them, be the bigger man. Most football fans in America do not find your sport as intriguing as you find American football and couldn't even care less.
2007-09-21 02:01:42 · answer #8 · answered by Riggo 44 (Joe DeForest is the worst DC in history) 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Alz7mUp3IvRNXRSj8f6LjW_ty6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20070911020700AAipV99&show=7#profile-info-HaLIcCd7aa
Someone asked this already. LOL
2007-09-20 21:54:10 · answer #9 · answered by Jared G 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋