American football vs international football

Actually speaking American Football is referred to in the rest of the world as rugby. First of all the game does not have a ball, rather it has a oval :). Football as is popularly known to the rest of the world is referred to as soccer in US. And lot of agencies are beginning to use that term to maintain the difference, but Football still remains the popular term for the game. Cheers! Ram

I enjoy watching both sports, but I prefer soccer. Being from Canada, I use the same terms as you Yanks. I don't know how each sport ended up with the same name, but it makes more sense for 'soccer' to be called football. The ball rarely comes in contact with a foot in American (or Canadian) football.

I think back then there was only one sport called football. But, the people are starting to argue and one part of them which I thought is the biggest chose to use only hands and the others chose the opposite to use only foot and the both side keep the name. I don't know about how rugby became a sport maybe they argue with the U.S football. But if we make divide the word in parts foot and ball it showed that the international football is the right to be called football because in US Football the people use hands not foots.

Hi brothertuck! Here from the other side of the big pond an answer to your question. There is American football freeks over here. We call it American football in order to make a difference to our football which is soccer. There are clubs for the egg shaped ball here which are called Thunder or Eagle and these clubs even have cheerleaders. Well, there is people here who go to square dance lessons. ;-) I never understood the rules of American football, Someone explained patiently many times. I just know there is huddles and lines. I know soccer, I am familiar with it. And to the confusing term football, it is well known here what you mean by football.

Hi brothertuck, I really don't understand as why Americans can American football is a football. They only use the foot in less then 1% of the game played. The rest they use their hand. Is it because football is a very popular to the rest of the world? I think American should called their game as "Handball" because they use their hand mostly or more accurate compare to football is American Rugby because of the similarity between this games. American Football and Football is totally different game in term of rules, the way its played and field.