How to make football (soccer) popular in North America

[Bofferbrauer]

noname2200 said:

Bofferbrauer said:
Cange the name of american football to american rugby. Seriously why is it called football if the players almost never kick the ball with the foot in the first place. It's much closer in every way to rugby than it is to soccer.

Do you mean the sport that is formally called "rugby football"?

From what I've been told, team sports historically evolved into one of two groups: mounted sports like polo and dismounted sports. The latter group - which always had a huge variety - were collectively called football. It's why soccer/football is formally called "association football." For the record, American football is technically called "gridiron football." Each English-speaking nation has unsurprisingly defaulted to lazily calling the more locally popular version as "football."

Wow, now that's really lazy naming. It's as if Each videogame would only be called Videogame with the name of the developer and maybe a number