Why is this called football...
 

If you play with the hands?

"American Egg Tossing"

They didnt want soccer called football so they called it football. Anywhere else in the world they call it soccer, they call it football.

Why is it called "taking a shit" when you're actually having it evicted?

why do the americans have to be different of everyone?

In American Football you also kick the ball.

sounds much more appropriate :1orglaugh

I'm not a big American Football fan, but these threads are getting stupid. Who cares...

Because it was easier to say than elongated elliptical spheroid

lol.... soccer sucks

I should be leaving a shit or leaving a dump, or making art:2 cents:

They called it football as a constant reminder to British morons that they couldn't use their hands.

Why do you drive on a parkway and park on a driveway?

Why is it that when an alarm clock goes off, it's actually coming on?

What do you do when someone says "Go ahead, back up!"

If baseball has bases and balls... what does hockey have?

I enjoy watching and playing all sports, but personally American Football is by far my favorite. The problem is that people from other countries see it as boring and slow, with too many pauses and breaks. The reason why people don't like it is usually because they never take the time to learn the mentality, dynamics and philosofy of the game. I know MANY people who thought it was dumb and bopring but when they actually took the time to learn the rules and watched a few games became big fans of the sport. It is truly a unique combination of strategy and violence, very similar to war in that it is a territorial sport. Once you learn the fundamentals you might be amazed at how symmetric the game really is. NFL players are todays modern gladiators. No sport out there demmands as much from your body and mind.

well said falcon

I had played both soccer and American Football , to me are both great sport just the way to called change in my country .
we called Football to Soccer , and American Football to the US Football .
I agree with Falcon.

because all the other cool names were taken

I know the rules of the game, 3 tries to get 10 yards, if they don't they lose the ball where they failed so they normally kick it as far down as possible if they don't think the'll make the 10 yards. Lots of strategy involved. But it is still boring as fuck to watch as a 45 minute game takes 3 bloody hours.

Boxing is probably the most tollin sport you can do, boxers are the modern day gladiators, not American Football players

what are WC guys playing? American Football or Soccer. And what is the difference between american and normal football

playing football with hands we call gondball

Have you finished cooking?

In my mind that description fits mixed martial artist competitors better than fat football players.

http://www.phoz.com/fat_fb_player.jpg

I personally love football ("soccer"...), I enjoy American football since I took time to learn the game, but I have to say that rugby is way more dynamic than american football, it can be way more brutal (just take a look at their shoes, they have 2 inch nails, with no protection at all..), they could kill each other if they want to, but the fair play rules, it's truly a sport for real men. And, obviously, american football it's just a version of rugby.

:1orglaugh very true!

Very well said :thumbsup

LMAO !!!!!! :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

make the goalies use their feet only, no using of head or chest, then i might consider calling it football

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Mr. Romance

Correct. Rugby was originally very popular in the US and American Football was derived from the Rugby game largely because it was felt that Rugby was too brutal a game. They also wanted a game more strategy based and less free flowing. The protection came about (ironically) to make the physical contact element less of an issue as it was with rugby.

Soccer is the worlds most popular sport largely because it is simple to play. You don't need equipment except for 1 ball and the rules are very basic. No matter how poor or deprived you are you can still play soccer. In most of black Africa it is a relegion. No other sport can or ever will challenge soccer's world domination.

It is also the greatest sport on the planet :thumbsup

I modestly disagree.

True, in rugby you don't use equipment, but it is for a reason that you use equipment in American Football. If you try playing "professional" football without equipment you would literally die. In rugby you can only hit the player with the ball, and below the waist I believe. In American Football everyone hits each other. There are blind side hits, there are players running down a straight line, looking back at the ball, and as soon as they catch it get popped brutally by a defender without ever seeing it coming. Also, all the equipment you see on a player is not only used for protection, but also for hitting.

The thing with Amercian Football is that the entire mentality of the game is violent.

Why it is called Cricket when no bugs are involved?

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh

http://www.teamspirit.org.uk/images/bangers.jpg

Is this a "sausage" or a "banger"?

Who cares, it's a name. Maybe it's called football because they're not running on their hands.

....you're damn right!! :D

:warning It's not.

Anywhere outside of the US it's called AMERICAN FOOTBALL. And those leagues are pretty much bullcrap for anyone who isn't super local and/or doesn't bet on the leagues in question. NFL, XFL, ZFL, WTL WHL, WHA, AFL, CFL <any_letter><any_letter>L/A really... although NHL does have the best hockey players, no doubt.

:warning It's not.

Anywhere outside of the US it's called AMERICAN FOOTBALL. And those leagues are pretty much bullcrap for anyone who isn't super local and/or doesn't bet on the leagues in question. NFL, XFL, ZFL, WTL WHL, WHA, AFL, CFL <any_letter><any_letter>L/A really... although NHL does have the best hockey players, no doubt.

Except they arm tackle in rugby. In the NFL, every play is a simulation of a 45 mph car wreck.

Its hard for people to understand, but imagine you are playing soccer against the 11 fastest, strongest and most powerful soccer players in the world. The refferee hands you the ball and tells them to separate you from the ball when he blows his whistle. He gives them helmets and pads so they dont kill you when they get to you. Welcome to small college football. You are not ready for the NFL.

Wow, then it's like roulette combined with curling. Isn't it.

*Not impressed*

Fuck off, comparing american football with real football

Plenty of soccer stars and rugby stars making the NFL.

They are called field goal kickers and punters. Those are the little guys you see on the sideline.

Plenty of other people make it to the NFL. Those are the little guys you see in the senate. Later.

still, foot = foot, ball = ball
so "american football" shoud be called handball?
oh wait we already have that :\

If you study the history of football you will see in the beginning it was more like rugby. The forward pass was illegal and so all the plays were RUNNING plays. Running is something you do by using your feet. Also kickoffs, punts, field goals and extra points are all done by using your foot. Most of the players in the top 20 all time in scoring in NFL history are KICKERS. Kickers use their feet 100% of the time.

Soccer is more difficult and exciting to view!

It's just like while Americans call a hamburger.. hamburger, the rest of the world calls simply calls it a meatpad.

You guys call a meatpad "ham burger"?
Normally it doesn't even have ham!

lmao... pure niceness Gunni. Pure niceness :thumbsup

because you can either get a foot up your ass or the ball

We didn't so that no one could tell us we suck at football.

Since you refuse to say soccer, there is no problem. :thumbsup

Seriously, the reason why it is called football, and look it up if you want, is because a regulation ball is 12" long, aka a foot. So it is called the Football. :2 cents:

Well while hamburgers don't have ham, I'd rather ask for that than a "meatpad". Brits and Aussies call cigarettes fags so like they should talk. "Hey mate, want to go and suck on a couple of fags?"

I would rather eat a meatpad. I fucking hate ham. I don't even wanna think there is ham in a god damn hamburger cause if there ever was I would go on a hunger strike until those bastards agreed to rename it to a nohamburger.