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Originally Posted by james_clickmemedia
I don't like football or american football however thanks for the education on my american football is even called football.
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Did you mean to say "WHY american football is even called football"?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_football#History
Primitive forms of rugby, then all covered by the name "football", were being played in the USA as far back as the 1840s, at Harvard, Yale and Princeton, stemming partly from Americans who had been educated in English schools.[8] The history of American football can be traced to early versions of rugby football and association football (called soccer in the United States). Both games have their origins in varieties of football played in the United Kingdom in the mid-19th century, in which a ball is kicked at a goal and/or run over a line.