Darren New wrote:

> That too. "Gridiron" refers in part to the field marked off with lots of 
> lines. So you can call it "gridiron football" to distinguish it from 
> "soccer football" or "rugby football". "American football" is what 
> americans play. "Gridiron" is what americans, canadians, australians, 
> etc play. They're all terms for rules that are approximately similar, 
> just like you have rugby rules for different numbers of players and such.
> 
> Certainly a lot of the rules and concepts and especially terminology 
> comes from rugby.  For example, it's still called a touch down in 
> american football even tho you don't actually have to touch it down. 
> Altho it's common to spike the ball when you've made a touchdown in 
> american football.
> 
:)

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Best Regards,
	Stephen

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