A new name for American "football" ( Archived) (40)

Ditto,Googleing SOCCER


Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players, and is widely considered to be the most popular sport in the world. It is a football variant played on a rectangular grass or artificial turf field, with a goal at each of the short ends. The object of the game is to score by manoeuvring the ball into the opposing goal. In general play, the goalkeepers are the only players allowed to use their hands or arms to propel the ball; the rest of the team usually use their feet to kick the ball into position, occasionally using their torso or head to intercept a ball in midair. The team that scores the most goals by the end of the match wins. If the score is tied at the end of the game, either a draw is declared or the game goes into extra time and/or a penalty shootout, depending on the format of the competition.

When was the last time England was a World Champion or European Champion?

Soccer=fotbol
Football=Football

The history of American football can be traced to early versions of rugby football and soccer. Both games have their origin in varieties of football played in the United Kingdom in the mid-19th century, in which a ball is kicked at a goal and/or run over a line. Also like soccer, American football has twenty two players on the field of play. Furthermore, some player position references from soccer are used, such as the term "halfback" and "fullback".

Sou you all still probably invented it

Modern Soccer goes back to about the same time.

Football... and only 2 kickers....

Well, maybe Actionball or Sausageball since the football looks like a
sausage. Maybe at the end of the game the winner team gets to
eat the ball.

The first description of a football match in England was written by William FitzStephen in about 1170. He records that while visiting London he noticed that "after dinner all the youths of the city goes out into the fields for the very popular game of ball." He points out that every trade had their own football team. "The elders, the fathers, and the men of wealth come on horseback to view the contests of their juniors, and in their fashion sport with the young men; and there seems to be aroused in these elders a stirring of natural heat by viewing so much activity and by participation in the joys of unrestrained youth."





Not that I dislike American Football.... Or Raider Ball as it should be known I love it.... but... I'm not sure Amerigo Vespucci had even been born (by a few hundred years after the ball was being kicked around London and chronicled as such) even discovering the Americas..... Or..... Should they really be called the Chinese Admiral Cheng Ho provinces... as he is reputed to have found them in 1421....