This would be American Football, yes?

I've always been curious about one thing - why do they call it football when they hardly ever seem to kick the ball?

Well, it's quite strange that it's me to answer, since I'm from Italy where we hardly know what american football is. Whatever, the latter is well known to be a rather deep modification of rugby union -brought in the US by immigrants from the UK- which in turn is a form of football. Indeed, although there's a legend around the birth of rugby football, before any form of football was codified matches took places with rules to be agreed on from time to time. Anyway, the most popular form of football in Italy and probably worldwide, which is association football a.k.a. soccer and is played (almost) exclusively with foots was codified only later than rugby. Incidentally, I'm about the only italian guy to have hardly ever seen more than two or three minutes of a match. I don't even follow those involving our national team: I plainly find it boring, no matter who is playing. OTOH, speaking of rugby, which I conversely find to be extremely entertaining and exciting notwithstanding the fact that it's not even minimally popular here, while in North America this super bowl thing is taking place, here in Europe the 6 Nations just started! So just to let you know. BTW: yes, "we" lost against France by 39 to 3. No, I'm not put particularly down by this. Just in case you wonder...

In reply to Re^2: Super Bowl by blazar
in thread Super Bowl by smithers

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