Why is football called football, it is played with your hands not your feet?

In the U.S., Soccer should be the one called football just like in every other place in the world

because it is derived from England's rugby, which by the way has football clubs. when it started, you could only score via goal or field goal. over time, and we're talking over 100 years ago, the rules evolved to incorporate ways to make it more fun and interesting, especially once it was catching on and started drawing a crowd.

Football isn't played with your feet?

What do you use to run the ball and gains yards?

How do you get points 20 yards away from the end zone?

How do you go after a guy to make a tackle?

FEET...

why is my dingy so big.

because football is a unique sport!
basketball - shoot the ball in basket
football - one unique sport

Mighty Mack is almost entirely correct.
First, there was mob football. Played in Europe it looked a lot more like a big riot than anything else. They began refining it but didn't quite have everything down yet (It wasn't codified).

A young man by the name of William Webb Ellis got tired of kicking the ball and picked it up and ran with it. After this football/soccer diverged from rugby football (which later diverged into rugby football union and rugby league).

Rugby was taken to the US and was considered too dangerous so they changed some rules creating American Football (taking football from rugby "football"). Now before someone shoots me for that comment I'll finish the rest of the story. Soon after these rule changes, mass formations became popular and football (american) became too dangerous so they added some pads and legalized the foward pass.

Soccer was named such in the US because when it really made headway here we already had something called football so the looked to the full name of soccer (association football) and, since we like crazy little shortcuts, took the "soc" out of association and changed it to soccer. And kicking used to be important in football when it was more like rugby (in which kicking is still important).

It sures sounds better tahn "Throw Ball"

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think hard what else does foot mean??? it's a measurement!!!

the football in football was traditionally 1 foot long!

Sure, diss on football.

In the US, we don't give a **** about what the rest of the world calls soccer because we all know that soccer is a sport for *******. They might as well call it face ball since they hit the ball with their face.

OK! It was originated in England from "Football" or Soccer.Walter Camp picked up a soccer ball, being tired of kicking it and essentially invented football. I am 90% sure, i read it somewhere

Why is it called rugby when it's not played indoors on a rug?
Call it Oblongball

Why is it called badminton when there is not a goodminton?
Call it Shuttlecock Wacking

Why is it called tennis when there are not ten of anything involved?
Call it Fuzzyball

Why is it called hockey when nothing is in hock?
Call it Skatepucking

Because we were to lazy to think of a real name. We heard of "futbol", decided to replace some letters and delete a few, but we made sure it still sounded similar!

Haven't you learned that americans are lazy?

Many years ago, the length of an American Football was exactly one foot.

Hence, "foot"ball.

And in the U.S., more people care about "our" football than soccer, so the names will stay the same.

Because we're the U.S. and we can call it whatever the *(@# we want.

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March 21st, 2010, posted by mike

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