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¿Question #1596?
Spielfreak: The term "football" has been ruled to only pertain to the game soccer. What term do you now use for American football?

Sacco: NFL.
BOBBYCAN: Air gauge ball.
ssmooth: I scoff at this ludicrous ruling and continue to call football football.
Aardvarkius: Football. Who gives a crap about soccer.
TiwazTyrsfist: Wuss Rules Rugby.
simpledamon: football
pakruse: Rugby football is rugby. Association football is either football or soccer. American football will be called "gridiron" from this day forward.
MartinWin: American football
Woelf: Football (note the capital "F")
Jatoha: maybe 10 yard ball or oblongball
Blott: The Awesomeness
pwilz: I use football. This is like the Lambada. The fact that it is called, "The Forbidden Dance" does not really mean anything.
cmchavis: Crap
GrimJester: handball
nm156: American rugby
tankexmortis: "That American sport that all the obnoxious people like." As opposed to the aforementioned European one, naturally.
nvarela: Football is football, and was invented in England. As for "american football" I use the term "nonsense".
doctor_no: probably Gridiron... less likely american football or "American rugby"...even Battleball would be fine enough.. specially if you know the analogies between gridiron strategy and military strategy
ahoodedfigure: soccer
rgatti: "Football" now only pertains to "association football" (soccer)? Does that now make soccer "association association football?" (aka socksoccer?) I'll still with futbol or fooseball.
Geosmores: I did not know this, I still call it football
dogzard: boring
ZeroZilla: Americans tend to reject rulings not made by them. Heck, they tend to reject their own rulings.
bigbadsteve: so if soccer is football, cant football now be soccer?
Aljovin: it's been refered to "More girly than rugby" to me, but I call it boring.
AMorgan: "American football"
elirlandes: Helmet Fiasco.
DHEK: I've always called it "American football". I think most of the world considers "football" as soccer and call American football "American football".
slowcorner: Smashball
arkibet: American Rugby.
william_henshaw: football screw soccer
Brentoon: futbol
Tina and Steve: Slap and Tickle
mpw182: Smash-O-Rama
jeffwolfe: Um, "American football."
Nikoms: Football - I wasn't consulted on the afore mentioned ruling. kthx.
purvisa: Rugby
airborne101: The sport that allows you noy not be bugged by relatives.
PsyJam: Stupidball
ZombyDawg: Football! You wanna have another war over this?
Prestonisnormal: Go Pats
bnorton916: American Football
greglios: American Football.
W Eric Martin: Change the channel.
PlanetSmasher: football. Americans as a whole don't care about soccer, and the world doesn't care about american football, so i don't think it will change.
dragonewtking: football
Lothartvni: That sport other people watch while I wait for Baseball season to start... that's what I call it now anyway.
Godeke: Football. Untill they have Monday Night Tackle Football (or whatever), it remains just football.
vampywife: bigdumbjocksoverchargingforplayingagame
Burnham: Football.
LaFey: Football for mongs.
scriptorum: Make up our own rules too.
hellsbishop: football
Chris Page: American soccer.
Ozvortex: Sissies with helmets and padding...
jasta6: American Football or Gridiron. My fav! But European football has another name doesn't - Soccer.....
MochaKimono: Since when? Who decided to change our language?
Myszka: For an European there's only one kind of football, even if in the US they might use the same word for something else (it's like the word 'coffee') (didn't mean to be offensive: I like USA) ;-)
JonSykes: American Football
confuse_a_cat: football
Quest22: Football
stephensj23: football.
skrutsch: Blood Bowl
Favre4MVP: Football. Call me a rebel.
cerulean: Armored rugby.
MrKorky: football
richdknows: Football, soccer should be called wusball....offsides!
Unitbuster: Until people in America start calling soccer "football," I'm not gonna worry about it.
smee62: seeing that we have many codes (Rugby league, rugby union,Aussie rules socer American football, indoor soccer ) each calling themselves 'football', American football is generally referred to as Gridiron.
BoboDaHobo: "Change the channel"
Larry Chong: my usual alternate name for it is Pigskin.
brainrob: Rugby for wimps
dakarp: Whose ruling was that?
Mike A: American futball.
obob: I don't. I just change the channel.
POvidiusNaso: Wifebeaterball.
mrbeankc: Football and who is it that can rule what the word can be used for?
Redneon: Ruled by whom? It
Lord_Prussian: football
2amp: american football
Randy Cox: Football. Because any such "ruling" was obviously made outside the US and is, therefore, invalid. :)
Ludocrazy: Stupidball?
B_J_S: close but no cigarr
meshuggener: Soccer
viogression: "That game where the overpaid, overgrown armored gorillas throw a brown turd-shaped thing around."
Sceadeau: Football
4wire: football
puffinge: ruled, eh? Show me proof of this ruling so I can laugh at it.
erli: Football
melissa: Gridiron (always have)
snoozefest: crap
MisterCranky: Gridiron tedium
AWildEep: Pig skin
Bearcat89: The "Real" football
ValJor: Pure Stupidity. Or just Stupidity, to be short...
Claytonius Maximus: If anyone in America cared about soccer, we might actually have a problem. Just kidding.
darquil: Are you referring to American Soccer?
heli: gayball
Wintergoblin: Pigskin
BobDodgerBlue: Football
Cromaa: "Woosies in body armor playing with a ball"
FullTinCan: feetball
Jester28: Football
Edbryan: soccer
UhhhClem: Chemically-damaged mutants shortening each others' lives.
djlg: Grid iron. That silly american game.
PopeBrain: soccer?
Toxidyne: Lame.
djarv: Football. Dorky Euros...
kennyb: still use football
sdownin: "Football." We Americans have never cared what the rest of the world thinks.
DenverWolf: The term "football" has just now been ruled, by me, to only pertain to American Football. So, the answer is football. Get used to it.
toulouse: News to me. "American football" in the rest of the world, "Football" in America seems to work fine.
AlorielLelyn: American pseudo rugby-ish type thingy.
steadym: That't the one with all the padding, right?
gnomehome: American football = American football
sumo: By who?!
chaddyboy_2000: Football, because American football kicks soccer's ass.
davedanger: boredom
skelebone: Squash.
tragicpoet: First & 10
CDRodeffer: I don't care.
Blackwind: Football, there is no other.
LudesFactor: football
CortexBomb: American Football, as I have for some time now
louiseh: I don't refer to it at all.
WasQ: Sometimes american rugby
jttm: American football
Spielfreak: gridiron or tackleball