response: It doe kind of make sense on being called gridiron since it has goalposts for both ends of the field.
original_response: It kinda makes sense, since American football or gridiron doesn't involve the foot that much.
history: I love american football, it is so great! I see, so you like gridiron football, as it is called that as well. Yeah I mean it should just be called football though, its funny the rest of the world call football soccer
knowledge: American football, referred to as football in the United States and Canada, and also known as gridiron football or simply gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end.