Why is "Football" in America called "football"? I mean. you hardly use your feet!?!?!?!?
80780
its because the americans always want to be different, they use farenheight, and inches and stuff. but if you havent noticed the mls is almost the worst league in the world, and the only reason the US is good @ football is because alot of the players are in the European league so they get better in those.
392115
I think it is already starting to happen: you hear the word "football" used more and more in American television, media, advertising and casual conversation.  I think the word is almost naturally gaining acceptance, albeit slowly.  I've noticed also that people are starting to refer to American football as NFL football, just to differentiate.  Given the power of global communications, ie the Internet, now, I think that over time the word football will come to mean only one thing everywhere in the world:  the game played with the feet...and that's as it should be... :-)
1069527
Football... Its more active and its a long game and american football is has shorter games i'm from england, I build muscule by playing football european ppl r fit cause they play football. American ppl play american football but they r still fat!
383097
I've heard many answers to this and similar questions.  One interesting comment was that all team sports played with a ball while standing/running on your feet became known as "football".  This was to distinguish it from sports played on horseback (polo) or in the water.  Hence, we have Association Football (soccer), Rugby Football, Australian Football and American Football.  All of these are played "on foot", but not necessary **using** the foot.
330091
The word "soccer" is a colloquial abbreviation of association (from assoc.) and first appeared in the 1880s. The word is sometimes credited to Charles Wreford Brown, an Oxford University student said to have been fond of shortened forms such as brekkers for breakfast and rugger for rugby football. In the late 19th century the word soccer tended to be used only at public schools; most people knew the game simply as football.\n\nFootball is more commonly known as soccer in certain English-speaking nations where the word "football" refers to a rival code of football developed within that nation, specifically Australia, Canada, Ireland and the United States, and also in areas where Rugby football is more popular than association football, such as Australia, New Zealand and the white communities of South Africa. In these countries "football" was often included in the names of the earliest leagues and governing bodies of the sport, but as that word became increasingly associated with other domestic forms of the game, soccer became more widely used.\n\nFootball, in its modern form, was exported by Britons to much of the rest of the world and many of these nations adopted this common English term for the sport into their own language. This was usually done in one of two ways: either by directly importing the word itself, or by translating its constituent parts, foot and ball. Most Romance languages use the word football, albeit with a different pronunciation and occasionally a different spelling: the (Spanish fútbol, Portuguese: futebol, and the French, le football is often shortened to le foot. \n\nIn Germanic languages (other than English), the term is usually translated (for example, German: Fußball, Norwegian: fotball, Swedish: fotboll, Danish: fodbold and the Dutch: voetbal. \n\nIn Italy, football is called calcio, from calciare meaning to kick.\n\nAnd Kick-Off, Field Goal and Punt are all terms to describe American Football whereby a player uses his foot to make the ball go in a certain direction.  So, American Football is played with the feet but it is played with the feet about as much as world football/futbol is played with the hands via the goal keeper or other players on a throw-in.  My question would be why is it termed football (in the rest of the world) when the goalie can use his hands all the time (provided he is in the 18 yard box) and other players use their hands to make a throw in?  It is a mixture of both hands and feet as well as your head, chest, thigh etc.  In my opinion soccer/football should be called "body ball" taking in the total amount of your body that actually touches the ball, unlike rugby and american football...just a thought.
590180
Football.  We invented it (the UK) and named it, all before America was even discovered, and it's an English word.  So defo football, only americans and australians call it soccer (wrongly).\n\nAmerican football they use their hands as do AFL players so its hardly football
506191
Americans are Idiots thats why. As one I unfortunately live everyday seeing such things as Football called Soccer. It must stem from when the Pilgrams came over, they didn't want anything to do with England. Therefore they changed the name of England's beloved game to soccer. At this very moment I am wearing a nike "soccer" t shirt, if I wore one that said Football then these imbiciles would think I was talking about stupid "American Football". I think your right about changing it back to football, but americans are stubborn mules and won't change for anything.
369273
Because it's football really, not soccer like some keep on calling it.  I don't know why the other sport is called football in the first place.  Well anyways since its real name is "football," like the name suggests you play with your feet not your hands.
434450
There's two parts to this:\nThe origin of American football is in the history of the world's most popular sport: soccer. When soccer -- more universaly known as "football" (which of course makes sense because soccer players use their feet) -- participants decided to change their centuries-old game with restrictions such as the no-use of hand rules, people who disliked this broke away to create rugby. In the states we have created our own version of the game under the same old name "football" with more of a rugby style, the whole time forgetting why we call it that.\n\nThe word "soccer" actually comes from England, where the   modern version of the game originated.\nIn England, there were two types of football: rugby football and association football. The slang term for rugby football was "rugger," and the slang for association football was "assoc." The word "assoc" gradually evolved into "soccer," which was much easier to say.\nWhen association football was introduced to North America, gridiron football (the type played by the NFL and in the Super Bowl) was already well established. To avoid confusion, Americans adopted the British nickname "soccer" for the new sport.
40539
The international game known as Football (or Futbol) - what Americans refer to as "soccer" - has only gained popularity in America in the last few years, and has never been a popular spectator sport here.  Although American football does involve hand-touching, it is one of the few games played here that involves kicking the ball, so that's probably where the name came from.
1025662
QUOTE:\n\n"NOOOO and for your information, in AMERICA we call it SOCCER...in case you DIDN"T KNOW THAT!!!!!!!!"\n\nFor your information AMERICA is a continent, and in most part of the continent the game is called "FUTBOL" (not a typo, is a spanish word, born from the english word 'Football')\n\nIn USA, one country placed NORTH AMERICA, like Canada, the game is called soccer. And probably never will be the soccer  called football in USA because that is alrready the name of other sport, the "american football".\n\nBtw, bad called american football, shuld be USA football.\nMexico footbal, Brazil football, Uruguay football, Argentina football,  Ecuador football, etc ... all of them are "AMERICAN" and all of them play football with a spheric ball  :)\n\nJust to clear out some terms.
129703
Soccer is basically the American term for the game of football as it is known in the rest of the world.  What you call football, we call soccer.  What WE call football, you guys call American football.... or worse!
1140720
beacuse in america football is played by hands thats why they cannot call it football
426214
Here's the answer from The Guardian:\n\n"It's actually fairly dull, Stuart, if you were hoping for some amusing anecdotal reason for Americans calling football 'soccer'. The formal term for football is 'association football', which, even before generation text, was usually reduced to 'assoc', which very quickly became 'soccer'. So now you know."\n\nThe answer is near the bottom of the page of the link below.
1122471
This probably is not true but....\n\nFootball was going to be used for a new game in which players carried the ball with their hands most of the time in America.  Thus soccer was the name given to the previous game known around the world as football.
1029427
No not just the USA. It is known as Soccer in Australia also as we have other games that are coded as football. Although football is the correct term, I don't get all caught up in that. It's not meant offensively to the game, it's just a cultural thing.
229081
Born and raised on (real) football (soccer)!!!  Football is the only sport I can watch on tv.  Its my fav. team-sport to play.  Football is worldwide!  Perhaps people in the U.S. arent to fond of it because they like to think theyre better, having the attitude of 'oh, we're better than you, so we can make our own sports...' type of attitude.  Eff american psuedo-football!