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What's a good alternative name for American Football?


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I was just thinking it would be cool to have a name that doesn't get confused with Soccer/football how it's known around the rest of the globe. Wouldn't have to be "insert name-ball", but it could be a single word like Rugby too. In the football we know, throwing the ball forward is a key element that distinguishes itself from other types of "football". So I don't know, something like Skyball, Cloudball. Maybe just Tackleball, which I could get used to. Blitzball as a name from Final Fantasy X was cool. Yardball? Crashball? Armorball? 

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1 hour ago, TecmoSuperJoe said:

I was just thinking it would be cool to have a name that doesn't get confused with Soccer/football how it's known around the rest of the globe. Wouldn't have to be "insert name-ball", but it could be a single word like Rugby too. In the football we know, throwing the ball forward is a key element that distinguishes itself from other types of "football". So I don't know, something like Skyball, Cloudball. Maybe just Tackleball, which I could get used to. Blitzball as a name from Final Fantasy X was cool. Yardball? Crashball? Armorball? 

They all already have names...

”American” football = gridiron football

”Soccer” = Association football

”Rugby” = rugby football (rugby union and rugby league variants 

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2 hours ago, sp6488 said:

They all already have names...

”American” football = gridiron football

”Soccer” = Association football

”Rugby” = rugby football (rugby union and rugby league variants 

American "football"/gridiron football still has "football" in either name. I'm looking for something that unique that doesn't piggyback off an already established name i.e. football. 

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11 hours ago, TecmoSuperJoe said:

I was just thinking it would be cool to have a name that doesn't get confused with Soccer/football how it's known around the rest of the globe. Wouldn't have to be "insert name-ball", but it could be a single word like Rugby too. In the football we know, throwing the ball forward is a key element that distinguishes itself from other types of "football". So I don't know, something like Skyball, Cloudball. Maybe just Tackleball, which I could get used to. Blitzball as a name from Final Fantasy X was cool. Yardball? Crashball? Armorball? 

Rugby is called rugby because that's where it was invented. Whereabouts was Football invented?

 

New Brunswick, apparently. So...The National New Brunswick League. 

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