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Originally Posted by leedsfan
One more thing while I'm here:
The name of our game is football. We use our feet to play it. That's why WE call it football.
Your game is also called football, but yet you play it with your hands!
I guess that's something else the rest of the world thinks is hilarious as well.
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We kick the ball too...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_%28word%29
That might help you understand why we call it football, and why you call it football also.
Most specifically, this:
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While it is widely believed that the word "football" (or "foot ball") originated in reference to the action of the foot kicking a ball, there is a rival explanation, which has it that football originally referred to a variety of games in medieval Europe, which were played on foot.[1] These games were usually played by peasants, as opposed to the horse-riding sports often played by aristocrats. While there is no conclusive evidence for this explanation, the word football has always implied a variety of games played on foot, not just those that involved kicking a ball. In some cases, the word football has even been applied to games which have specifically outlawed kicking the ball.
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Therefore, football refers to a game played on FOOT, not a horse, or hell even in some countries and elephant!