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You must have missed the "ball" part. You know, round object? Legolas Send a noteboard - 02/07/2010 09:38:15 AM

It's football because you advance the ball by running; in rugby you can't throw it forward, and the same was long true in US gridiron also (you still can't throw it forward more than once, and there are a number of other significant restrictions on doing so even then. )


And that argument is, no offense, completely idiotic. In handball they advance the ball by running, too, but since they carry the ball in their hands and throw it into the goal with their hands, they went for the very logical name "handball". In basketball they advance the ball by running, too, but they called their sport after the most distinctive aspect of it, the basket.

Now obviously American football has *some* cases in which the feet are still used, though even less than in "rugby football" (where kicking the ball forward and then running to go catch it can be a valid tactic, as you're not allowed to be tackled when you don't have the ball). But considering that that's limited almost entirely to field goals, it's perfectly valid to make the point Floffe made: the name simply doesn't cover the content of the game.
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