User blog comment:Commdor/Mass Effect 3 at Gamescom/@comment-4301893-20110818035420/@comment-2174252-20110819221305

I’d been always curios about the origins of “football” and why games so different are called by the same name in different countries. So I went to, where else, Wikipedia and checked it out. It’s very interesting that, as I suspected they all have the same root. It comes from the Middle Ages when games played with a ball and on foot, as opposed to horseback, were called “football”. Its origins can be traced back to ancient times.

The article also describes how the different types of football or “codes” came to be. For those interested here is the link.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football

Sorry Commdor, didn’t mean to derail your blog.