it occured to me that Association Football has "Soccer", Rugby Football has "Rugger" but American Football / Gridiron Football doesn't have one.

I thought it could be fun to try and come up with one. Following the trend it has to end in 'er'.

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Or maybe 'Lamer' might do?

for it's actually called gridiron ('ie iron on the grid), the today slang term should be matrix-plastic ha

I have never in my life heard someone called Rugby "rugger".

"Rugger" is a mainly British term.

That's not the worldwide trend in sports ey. Actually it has to end with 'ball'. Unfortunately, the term 'fistball' is already occupied. Therefore I tend to prefer eggball, or at least somethin' alike

Just my 2 pesos

Mustn't have made it out to the colonies then.

What ever you call it it won't work we are still going to call it football.

It's not huge really, not in my experience, mainly because it's not shorter to say than the actual name of the sport.

Apparently it is a British term invented by university students back in the ealier days of the sports.

There were two main types of football with little in common. They became known as "association football" & "rugby football". Rather than say "association football" students shortened it to soccer and Rugby football became rugger / ruggers or more commonly nowadays as just Rugby. As British arrived in the Americas and helped to form the USA they adapted The game to become American Football

Well football is just football, if you called it soccer people would probably give you a funny look in my experience.

I agree but go to the US and speak about football and they naturally assume you mean American Football. It gets worse when you have Americans (as in US as the rest of the Americas play soccer) speaking or posting internationally as they confuse the hell out the rest of the world speaking about "football".

Ah but in the south they call it "Foo-AY"

Just an argument from silence. Never been in Central or South America ha.

Argentina are obviously quite big on Rugby as well as soccer as they play in the 6 nations cup.

Throughout South & Central America a vast majority including women live and breath soccer. Brazil being the country to hold the World Cup the most times.

I know. I'm a fan of Boca Juniors myself. Nevertheless, we call the game that is usually played with the foot 'fútbol' and the American football that is played here in English hardcoe fashion 'rugby'

I like both sports btw. Yup!

That's because Gridiron is to American Football as Soccer is to Association football.

Just a thought that has occurred to me is Australian Football. Which I think comes from Gaelic football (played in Ireland - a lot of Irish were sent to Australia).

In Australia they have association football which is big, they also have Rugby Football which is big and they also have Australian football which is big. Australian football I think is referred to by most as "Aussie Rules" being the common spoken term.

There's also two forms of rugby, Rugby Union and Rugby League with different rules.

Yeah, tell me about it; apparently can't tell whether I'm saying bowl or ball either.

Hand egg.

I've never ever heard anyone call rugby "rugger".

Rugger was the old term invented alongside soccer but now I hear it as ruggers as in "did you watch the ruggers last night". Not as official talk but spoken common talk like the word "footy" is used on place of football.

Yeah, but I've never in my life heard anyone say it. Everyone just calls it rugby. It's probably local slang, definitely not used in Ireland.

It's the sane with the word soccer. No ine really uses it but we are familiar with it. Ruggers the way i hear it is more like footy in talk. we still use football the most like we use Rugby. Rugby is short for "Rugby football" and football is "Association Football".

If I type on an international site with Americans I use the word "soccer" to prevent confusion but I've never heard it spoken locally. Definetely not in Scotland.