Hmm, American Football? I've long been bemused by the misnomer! Why do you a call game in which players run around carrying, throwing, and catching a ball "football", though the ball is hardly ever touched by feet? It would be more accurate to call it "hand ball". The real game of football is one of skill based on using the feet to control a ball. It is not a "game" of brute force - battery, barging and wrestling - nor of grown men rolling around on the ground cuddling each other in large groups ;) The made up word "soccer" does nothing to describe the game, but is slang derived from the word "association", as in Football Association, the body which drew up the rules of play in the 19th century.