You do realize that North America has another sport that they call "football", right? Ok, so they use their hands to throw or carry the ball, and hardly ever kick the ball, but it's FOOTBALL, damn it! ;-/

You do realize that America doesn't have an official language, right? And that what we speak is referred to by linguists as 'American English' because it's differed enough over the years to become it's own dialect. The Brits speak 'British English' by way of comparison. When the Cambridge University Press estimates that approximately 2/3's of the native speakers in the world are from America, it stops being your language and becomes a common one in my opinion. Kinda like Cheddar Cheese used to only come from a specific town or county in England. Now it's made in dozens if not scores of countries.

Different area, different language, go eat a ham.

For god's sake, this is the United States, and we have another sport we call football. You want us to call it something we've already got. It isn't going to happen and our sport isn't going away, so don't bother. On top of that we do NOT have an official language. Our country MOSTLY speaks English, but no, we do not have an official language. The reason we don't is political, the higher ups like that our country is a cultural melting pot and wish to keep it that way. This leads them to not name an official language. I wish we had an official language so I could tell off anyone that couldn't speak English. Its so frustrating to have someone come here, and then tell us how to talk or speak. Telling us that WE should learn Spanish, French, or Italian. Hey, I got an idea, if you are speaking with someone from a foreign country (while in said country) how about you try to learn their mannerisms and speak their language? I don't even like football nor do I like YOUR football. Just thought I'd point out that you were being massively rude by trying to correct something that needn't be corrected.

I agree with you up to the bottom of the paragraph. Americans are famous for going to other countries and assuming that everyone speaks english. We tend not to bother learning another language, so we can't be too pissed off when people go to America and don't speak english right away.

You didn't 'already have your own football'. Football comes from the medieval period, and was made popular throughout the world by the British Empire. Meaning it came over to America when America was part of the British Empire. Whereas the first American Football game was in 1869. Which was after America was ceded from the Empire.