Hi! Ardith,   
      
   On 07/05/2016 07:32 AM, Ardith Hinton -> Alan Ianson wrote:   
      
    AH>            While I don't pretend to know much about sports, I can see...   
    AH> as one who gets a kick (pun alert!) out of consulting dictionaries...   
    AH> that "football" is a generic term which apparently includes:   
      
    AH>                 Association Football ("soccer" for short)   
    AH>                 American (i.e. US) football   
    AH>                 Canadian football   
    AH>                 Rugby football, AKA "rugby" or "rugger"   
    AH>                 Australian Rules football (a variety of rugby)   
      
   I also don't pretend to know much about sports either.  (They broke the mould   
   before I hatched out.  Very un-Australian stereotype, I am.)  But I can say   
   confidently that Australian Rules football is _not_ a variety of rugby.  It's   
   very much like the Irish Gaelic football.  In fact there is an international   
   league where Australian and Irish teams battle it out, with slightly modified   
   rules... every so often.   
      
   Hope it helps.   
      
   Cheers,   
   Paul.   
      
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