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> I will use the term "soccer" for the most common football of Europe, "Association football", and "football" for American football.

I appreciate your valiant efforts but to my mind this is extra confusing because "soccer" is short for "association football"

Time to rename American Football to "handegg" once and for all. Ok, ok, I'll settle for "American Rugby"



I've heard "handegg" before but a football is not shaped like an egg, it's vaguely egg-like but the teardrop shape of an egg is distinctly not what a football looks like.


It looks more like an egg than it looks like a ball, so if we have to force fit into a common word, my vote goes for egg


But it acts more like a ball than like an egg.


Or just American Handball


Or just go back to calling it gridiron football.




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