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What do Americans think of the rest of calling your game Gridiron?

You guys call it Football, which is silly because you hardly ever kick it. We have always called it gridiron and I think English people say the same. And just to wind you all up, Rugby's the better game and we have a World Cup to prove it, you don't have one for Gridiron

Public Comments

1. It's our culture, not yours. You don't have to like it, but it might be better if you respect it because there are quite a lot of us ;) I personally still don't like the English after they deliberately gave some of our people smallpox-infested blankets to kill us. Old wounds haven't healed well in Native America. And don't get me started on what Australia has done to its indigenous people.
2. Yawn...funny people who know nothing about the game love to comment on it. By the way its not gridiron the game...its played on the gridiron...jacka$$
3. I think the answer to your question is no. I challenge the world to Introduce American Football into a World Cup atmosphere, so I can point and laugh at the rest of the worlds clowns get beat at a mans sport. (Rugby is not a mans sport due to the questionable amount of sweaty group huddles)
4. You can call it whatever you want. Over here in America, we call Rugby, "gay orgy".
5. Women's Volleyball could make your rugby team cry for their mamas... but oh, wait, they would have to wait for you " guys" ( wink, wink) to finally get out of that sweet little huddle.
6. CAUSE GRIDIRON AINT A WORLD SPORT it is an american sport but gridiron aint a bad name
7. Moo?? Are you a cow? I hope so, then you migh have some use. What you call our game is your business. What we call it is ours. If you don't like it do wha we do to your game. Ignore it. What makes you think just because you have something called the world cup it makes your game so great. Ever hear of the Super Bowl dummy? Most people don't even know rugby has a world cup. Or even care. The Super Bowl gets coverage all over the world. If you yahoos from the rugby countries want to try football, get a team and bring it on.
8. Rugby??!!!! There is a World Cup for soccer too but that is THE most BORING game known to man! You can call "Football" whatever you want.
9. I wish I had some funny, or nice tid bit of info but it has all been said already. Soccer and Rugby is not cared about here in USA. When you say football NOBODY mistakes it for chasing a ball over the field and not using your hands cause your eye to hand coordnation is horrible. So on top of that you created another sport where you dont have to have any eye to hand coordination by throwing a kind of shaped football backwards. Yeah sorry but American Football is world wide, why else would al these other countries be begging the US to play a game in there country.
10. I don't mind if anyone calls it Gridiron...interesting name I suppose. I don't know how it came to be called football in the first place. But rugby a better sport? Someone's had a little too many crumpets eh chap? American football is and always will be superior to rugby in every way. Who cares if rugby has a world cup, football doesn't because America would destroy everyone else because it's our sport! Put down the crumpet and think for a second... seriously put it down...a scenario where America says "hey world, let's have a world cup for American football, what do ya think?" Who else plays football kid? No one would want to. Although it would be great to see the French get their ass kicked in this man's game. They could do all the head-butting they pleased and even if someone flopped there wouldn't be a penalty, that only happens in soccer. Besides, the Superbowl is a lot more entertaining than a Rugby world cup.
11. Truthfully, We really don't care.