Asunto: American Football

So what does having one quarterback have anything to do with foot then?

good question... i thought the whole point was that american-football players run with their feet, and feet is plural of foot

my theory is the americans just wanted to mortify the british when they named it football

now it could be called american rugby, or helmetball... wait.... helmball sounds better

lol, the game has nothing to do with helmets, save for protection for their heads.

American rugby seems somewhat accurate though

Passball.

I always been told that Football here in USA is named after the lenght of the Oval ball (1 foot), but i really never went to measure it.

I like Soccer as a name, i use it. In italian we call soccer "Calcio" and that transalted to english literally means KICK (as in "Kick in the......")

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American football derived it's name from the same game the rest of the world calls football.Northeastern colleges in the mid/late 1800's were playing a form of soccer against each other,except for Harvard which had their own rules,then rugby was introduced to Harvard,by a Canadian school, and the American colleges liked it so the game evolved into a rugby like game till Walter Camp set down inter-collegiate rules that involved a line of scrimmage and downs and distance.Red Grange added the forward pass and voila we have the game as we know it today.Nobody ever bothered to change the name as the game evolved so we have football/soccer quandary today.BTW,on the beach at Cedar Point amusement park in Sanduskey,Ohio(an hours drive from my house)is a plaque honoring it as the place the Grange and his teammate developed the forward pass while working summer jobs at the park.It's also a kick ass amusement park.
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Strange it would honor Red Grange [the galloping ghost] as the developer of the forward pass when it was Knute Rockne and Gus Dorais who accomplished the task.

p.s. I'm a retired Football Coach with 10+ years playing experience and 27+years coaching.

Strange rhymes with Grange


I'm just saying

Hondo you caught me it was Rockne,I musta had Grange on the brain!Thanx for waking me up!

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Now is that American football or Soccer that you are retired from?

Football, not futbal.

american football he means

An appropiate name would be American Rugby do you all agree?

COnsider this: the only Countries who call Football (NFL) American Football are the Rest of the World ^_^
In Italy the name for Soccer is "Calcio", but we still call the USA version "Football Americano"

Here in US is Football and Soccer, becasue Football(NFL) has been created (or invented, not sure which word is right) here, as it has been stated some threads above, by a fusion of Original Football and Rugby.

I don't think there's a way either one of the 2 sport should change the name. I'm in US and i call European Football with Soccer, and if i was in Europe i will call the Football (NFL) with American Football.

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So if one country calls basketball netball its ok because they have been using the name for the longest, even though the original name was baketball. I think some people are biased because they dont want the name changed maybe because of tradition. I guess all countries should change their sports name to be difficult, England should call cricket english baseball.