Why is Football called Football(NFL)

[Ataraxia]

I think Football is fun to play and watch if your a true fan......

Even "Football" is fun to play but if ure not a fan its hell boring...

Trust me a game that last 3 hours with so many breaks gets pretty dull specially well all that happens in some guy passes to another guy and he runs or the dude gets tackled....oh yeah or theirs those exciting kick plays where someone kicks the ball through a rugby post....

Cmon man, whats so fun abt seeing guys in big overprotected suits trying to tackle harder or pass further on run faster/further....it gets so repetitive.

Football has non stop flow, except when a foul is called I mean theirs always something goin on.....I mean theirs only like 5 advertisments u'll see during a game of football...and thats only for 5 minutes during the 15 minute half-time break.

I dunno guess if u arent a fan of the sport it becomes boring and for wussy's......

If u watch the old Football games u'll see why its called the beautiful game.....nowadays u do get actors sadly....but I really dont see the fun in "football", only time I liked "football" was after watching Remember The Titans....but after a month I didnt wanna bother loading up another NFL game again.

But everyone has to agree, most boring sport on earth is GOLF....geez some ppl actually watch The Golf Channel

[John-John Joe]

American football does not much resemble soccer, the sport which most people outside the U.S. call "football". Consequently, American Football is best known internationally as "American Football". However, both of these games have their origins in varieties of football played in the United Kingdom in the mid-19th century, and American football is directly descended from rugby football, usually known simply as "Rugby".

According to an apocryphal story rugby football began with a football game at Rugby School in England in 1823 when a player named William Webb Ellis suddenly ran with the ball only to be tackled by an opponent. Contrary to popular belief the game played at Rugby School was not soccer (which had yet to be codified) and the Rugby School version of football had always permitted handling the ball but had banned running with the ball. This rule breaking gradually became increasingly common until it became the accepted norm. Thus was born the game of Rugby Football.

The game progressed from that point and was introduced to North America from Canada, by the British Army garrison in Montreal, which played a series of games with McGill University. In 1874, McGill arranged to play a few games in the United States, at Harvard, which liked the new game so much that it became a feature of the Ivy League. Both Canadian and American football evolved from this point. The U.S. game still has some things in common with the two varieties of rugby, especially rugby league.

[Drex]

But when theatrical skills can be more important than athletic skills in a game, i lose all respect for it.

I have to agree with that. There's so much bitches just running and falling down just to get the foul

Then you have all this shit how it's the "beuatiful game" and such. Soccer is the most boring game. It's just a joke, plain and simple.

It is a beautiful game, but you have to watch players that play the game the right way to realize how great and beautiful this game is.

[matmat8]

We should all thank all those rich british bastards back then that had nothing better to do than invent games to play so they were not bored...