Question?

We play soccer with a soccer ball, obviously.
Our 'American' football is played with a football.

 

And what do they call an elementary school education over there?

 

OK that's a weird question. We call it a soccer ball or a ball. I think for just about every sport here people just settle on ball since with the exception of football they're all round and generally with whatever you're doing with the ball people pretty much get which ball to bring. No one ever brings baseballs or volleyballs to soccer practice unless it's a joke or they're stupid.

 

But why is it called a "football" when you hardly ever use your feet with the "ball" and well it's not really a ball but an oval ball.

 

I dunno, why is it called a hamburger if there's no ham in it?

 

What do you call the ball used in Rugby? Criket (spelled wrong I am sure)?
In Hockey the ball isn't a ball it is a puck. We tend to call the ball used for the sport what it is, IE: Baseball a baseball, football a football and so on

 

Not entirely true, punts a pretty common in the game, as well as kickoffs, and field goals. More kicking then in a rugby game.

 

Because the hamburger came from a city in Germany called Hamburg.

I would say kicking is more frequent in Rugby, but still it ain't called FOOTBALL.

 

Oh, good, a scholar. Now...why is it called a Chicken Kiev if it's not from Kiev?

 

Chicken Kiev - This famous method of preparing chicken or pheasant is not of Russian origin as the name Kiev would imply. It was invented by Appert, A Frenchman who invented the canning of food and is called Chicken Supreme. The name Kiev was given this method of preparing chicken or pheasant by eary New York restaurants to try to please the many Russian immigrants. The name went back to Europe and is and was used in many places to describe Chicken Supreme.

So please tell me now why American Football is called Football when you hardly use your feet and use an oval ball.

 

Ya know I think you are right, Rugby has more kicking in it.
Why do they call it Aussie Rules Football?
Isn't there a Gaelic Football as well?

 

Good job. And scarecrow is right, whether it's association or gridiron or rugby or Aussie rules, it's still called football. No sense in hating on American football as it's not the only one with the oval ball.

 

Well Aussie Rules still requires a lot of kicking and comes from Gaelic football.

Since we're on about Aussie Rules, I would just like to say I think it is the worst sport ever known to man apart from curling.

 

OK, now you're really pissing me off.

 

I never said I hated American Football, hey I used to play Madden on PS2, I just don't see the logic in calling it "football".

 

Big Curling fan? Sorry

 

Well futball isn't called football because it's played with the feet. It was called that because it wasn't played on horse-back.

 

Because Americans are stupid, I'm living proof of that sometimes.

 

These threads are so tiring. People who are asking the 'uhhh why do they call it FOOTball' question are just being ignorant. There's always been a ton of threads about this and with just a tiny bit of research you'd find the orignins of the names for both Association Football and American Football. Nevermind, that the logic of 'THEY don't even use their FEET' doesn't really work because you'd then also have to call soccer, Everything But Your Arms, Hands, Elbows and Shoulders Ball.

 

Because American football followed a similar development path to rugby, coming out of association football.

If Yale hadn't been humiliated by Harvard, then maybe American football's development is blunted: http://www.sover.net/~spectrum/overview.html

 

Well, try as they may to deny it, "soccer" is a British word, a shortened form of "association football". Back in the 19th century, they had the habit of shortening things and adding an -er on the end. Rugby football became 'rugger' under that format.

Baseball is the "World Series" and has been called that way for 100 years.

There's an urban legend that it's called that because it was first sponsored by the New York World newspaper.

The term "World Championship Series" comes out of the 19th century post-season competitions between the champions of the National League and the American Association. They called it that because both leagues billed their competitions as for "the baseball championship of the United States."

Plus, Albert Spalding (a sports equipment manufacturer who was big into promoting baseball - equipment for which he sold) believed at the time that it wouldn't be too long before teams from Australia and Britain were challenging US teams for a world baseball championship. So he basically devised the name with that eventually in mind. Of course, it never happened.

The name stuck though and was resurrected when the new American League began challenging the National League in a post-season series, because it was a name the public remembered from those NL-AA series. Eventually "World Championship Series" was shortened to simply "World Series."