Kinds of football?

Question

i guess i am one of those stupid americans. i thought we(americans) called the sport with the oblong, brown ball foot ball and practicly the whole world called the round balled/ no hands sport football (u.s. soccer). whats all this australian and other kinds?

Answer 1

the only eal football is american football

Answer 2

American football is with a brown oblong ball,and most of the rest of the world calls what we call soccer they call football and the rest of the world plays a game that is some what like our football called rugby

Answer 3

There are all types of games which use the generic name "football".

There is American Football (think NFL also known around the world as gridiron)

There is Canadian Football (CFL much like the NFL except a larger field, 12 players, and three downs.)

There is Aussie Rules Football (AFL, a bunch of guys running around kicking a ball across a line and bashing each others faces in (no pads or helmets) The field is the shape of a football!

There is simply football (known in the U.S. as soccer)

There is Rugby football (known in the U.S. as rugby, mainly played as a social game here but abroad is a well paying professional sport. There are two differing rugby games-rugby league and rugby union)

There is Gaelic football (An Irish game similar to Aussie rules, but using a field much like a soccer field)

Answer 4

American Football is The football americans know (brown oblong ball as you put it)

Football everywhere else is US Soccer. Austrailian football, is just a particular league! We have the US soccer league.  Theres the Eurpean football league.

OOOH... ok.. in baseball. You have the National League, and the American League. They are playing the same game, they just have different teams who play (used to be) only each other and they have SMALL variances to the common rules of the sport. Get it?!

Answer 5

Australians play football (rugby union, rugby league, afl) and soccer as well. Although there has been a push in recent years to rename soccer 'football' in Australia. I'm happy to call soccer  'soccer', there are too many kinds of football in this world (particularly in australia) already, and it just gets confusing!

Answer 6

Australian is called AFL here (Australian football league), there are other leagues in rugby, soccer, etc here as well.