I think the use of the word Football to describe the American version is wrong for many reasons.
The ball spends more time in the hands of the players than at thier feet.
The name was already being used for the original game .
It would be like taking baseball which everyone recognises as it is and developing a whole new game and saying you know what I'm going to call it baseball.
The idea of calling football soccer is stupid, it's FOOTBALL !
I don't like the name television so I'm going to change it to microwave, the microwave will now be known as a Viewing box. Doesn't work that way does it.