Bimonthly rDrama Census Thread

No as another criteria is that the ball cannot be hit with an implement, only the players' bodies may be used.

I'll see if I can't find that definition so I can grind it in your smug face. Hang on a sec.

This guy from Quora sums it up nicely:

At a time when most sports were played on horseback, the term "football" was originally used to describe games that were played on foot (not a game in which you kick a ball with your foot). This includes soccer, rugby and American football. "Football" as the rest of the world knows it (or "soccer" in the U.S.) was originally known as Association Football, which became "soccer" for short before being widely known as just "football." American football is more an evolution of rugby football or Aussie rules football, which emerged around the same time as Association football. The term "soccer" stuck in the U.S. while in Europe and other parts just "football" became more popular than "soccer." So when people say it's weird that the U.S. calls it "soccer," they only do so because the term was invented in Europe, and was the original term for the sport before it became just "football". In short, American football is known as such because of it's similarity to rugby football.

Basically when they started making rules amongst schools in the UK so they could compete against each other there became a schism between Soccer football and Rugby football. Association Soccer set out some rules, but then the Rugby school in the UK started to pick up the ball and carry it and people thought that was more exciting because you could takle.

When all the real men left the UK for the colonies (UK, Aus and even we have Football in Canada) they took the Rugby rules with them and left the Association rules for the children and girls to still play in the UK and Europe. That's what happened.

https://www.quora.com/Why-is-American-football-called-football-as-most-of-the-sport-involves-using-your-hands#:~:text=Originally%20Answered%3A%20Why%20is%20it,developed%20with%20the%20same%20name.