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And when you say football, surely you mean a game where a ball (= sphere) is played with the feet, amirite?
I mean a sport that is played on foot rather than on horses ;)
If we do want to be pedantic then the list, 1-4, would be
Better?
I went ahead and used the americanized shorthand of "football" for gridiron rules football and the british loan word "soccer" for association rules football (soccer is a an Oxford slang tradition of adding "-er" to the end of something to make it an activity, IE calling rugby rugger and footer for all forms of football. In that tradition association football became assoccer or soccer) since the context was "what are americans watching, and why are all of us engaged in this weird ritual where even if we don't care about the superbowl we find ourselves at superbowl parties?"
gridiron football starts with a kick. many games are ended with a kick as well