Just out of curiosity...

[Reynolds]

... why do we in america call it football? You rarelt use your foot for it, and there was already a game called football that has been around longer than we have been a country! So what the F**k is up with that?!? I have always wondered why we did that...

[Leslie]

Foot + balls = pain.

And that's what it's all about.


Les

[Saintaw]

It was all finaly made clear to me in another thread:

Originally posted by beet1e
Diablo! Looks like a typical scene from American "foot" ball - the ¾ of the game in which folks just stand around after a man dressed in a zebra outfit approaches, blowing a whistle, waving his arms, and sometimes throwing his yellow handkerchief into the fray...

*- Disclaimer: I know nothin' about US football, but the above just made me laugh

[Flatbar]

It's called football because that's what the ball is called. Basketball and baseball are the same. Now, why do they call soccer football in some countrys when the ball is called a soccer ball?

[beet1e]

Originally posted by Reynolds
... why do we in america call it football? You rarelt use your foot for it, and there was already a game called football that has been around longer than we have been a country! So what the F**k is up with that?!? I have always wondered why we did that...

beats the hell out of me

[Holden McGroin]

Rugby, Soccer, Aussie Rules FB, Gaelic FB, and American FB were all called football in the mid 1800's when the rules started to be written down.

Legend has it that anything resembling polo that one played on foot rather than horseback was football.

Google is your friend....

[Bluedog]

Originally posted by Flatbar
It's called football because that's what the ball is called. Basketball and baseball are the same. Now, why do they call soccer football in some countrys when the ball is called a soccer ball?

The word 'soccer' itself is an abreviated slang form of 'association football'

[RTR]

'Cause it weren't invented in the U.S.

Like much of what you have / enjoy / consume, it came from somewhere else.

So, don't be blaming the U.S. because you don't agree with what something is called. It wasn't yours to name.
 
I thought it was common knowledge that all good things in America were invented / designed / thought up / and polished for export by Canadians.

Keerist!  Next thing you know you'll be taking credit for the Apollo missions, and complaining because they weren't called the "Back Bacon to the Stars" missions!

sheesh.

ahhh geeeez..I crack me up.



RTR

[Reynolds]

Originally posted by Flatbar
It's called football because that's what the ball is called. Basketball and baseball are the same. Now, why do they call soccer football in some countrys when the ball is called a soccer ball?

Not in Britan it wasnt. It was still (and maybe still is) called the football.

[MoeRon]

'Cause it weren't invented in the U.S.


Like much of what you have / enjoy / consume, it came from somewhere else.

Like Baseball and basketball and competative eating?