I think the name Football is wrongly attributed to American football because it's more like handegg; using hands to play with an egg. Where is football in American football.
Soccer is a strange name and it impacts the popularity of sport in US. I think US has more potential than any other country to start worldclass Football league inside USA.
Owners many English clubs are Americans, for example Liverpool Football Club. Americans seem to be a different species when it comes to sports. What you people call hockey is totall different than the thing called hockey in the rest of the world.
This is hockey.
While America plays baseball, our side of the world plays Cricket.
No wonder Football will never be top sports in the US but it should be.
PS: Basketball (and NBA) is the best thing about sports in the USA.