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To give some perspective, it's called football because these types of sports are played on foot and not on horseback.
by kerng 8y ago
To give some perspective, it's called football because these types of sports are played on foot and not on horseback.
- filmor 8y agoWikipedia gives this as an "alternative etymology", the primary one still being that it was being played by kicking a ball around, analogous to handball.