That's actually one of my pet peeves...
It's NOT called football because you use your feet - the name came because it was ball played by people on foot (i.e. commoners). The banning people from handling the ball only came in less than 200 years ago, so American football and rugby football are a lot closer to what people played in medieval times than that wacky offshoot association football...
(Vice Admiral Sir Charles Cockbrush KCB MBE DSO, who is finding it increasingly difficult to log into b3ta.com wants to duck your aunt and kick your puppy, Wed 24 Sep 2008, 18:22, Reply)