Why don't they call it handegg, or at least eggball? Legitimate question.
Why don't they call it handegg, or at least eggball? Legitimate question
Jose Gray
Adam Evans
Football (soccer), Rugby, Aussie rules and American Football are all derivatives of the same sport which was called Football
Chase Evans
It's called football because it's played on foot with a ball.
Joshua Gonzalez
why don't soccer players use their hands?
Christopher Rogers
because the name football doesn't describe the body part you use to strike the ball but called football because it is played by footmen, and not on horseback like every other sport at the time football was invented
and the original codes of football were much more similar to rugby or american football where the ball was carried into the goal and not hit with the foot
Jason Hernandez
>why don't soccer players use their hands?
Brody Bailey
What do you mean, "they?" Are you an illegal?
Hunter Bennett
Why don't they call soccer divegrass? It's played on grass and diving is the most important part of the game. Legitimate question.
Connor Gray
>Why don't they call soccer divegrass? It's played on grass and diving is the most important part of the game. Legitimate question.
Wyatt Moore
Who was the first guy who had the idea of only using the foot? In Medieval Football anything goes to try to score, who fucking thought that restricting the use of the arms was a good idea?
But somehow it ended to be the most popular sport in the world.
Liam Torres
I dont know, probably the same reason Aussies call it Aussie rules football
Evan Price
Because it isn't horseball
Gavin Reed
For me, it’s “nigger collide”
Jaxon Moore
Yes, also volleyball, handball, tennis, basketball, pool ... are football.
Matthew Thompson
they need them for the showers after the game
John Hughes
No I'm just a cultured american
Andrew Walker
No, those games were developed somewhere else by non english speakers, and none of them involve the ability to kick the ball.
Football codes are soccer, both rugbys, both gridirons, gaelic, australian rules.
Lucas Rogers
it's called football because the ball is exactly one foot in length
Jack Wood
Croatian immigration really did a number on this country, huh?
Zachary Bailey
It's perfectly fine to kick the ball in volleyball
Caleb Howard
Because an egg is round at one end and pointy at the other. An American football is spheroidal, so it should be called handspheroid