Answer.
In North America they struggled at football and Rugby league/union so they decided to invent lesser more basic sports so they could win at something by avoiding competition.
Gridiron was born.
The "Gridiron" is an American football field.
Gridiron is American football where as rugby is not
Gridiron - novel - was created in 1995.
UTS Gridiron was created in 1993.
Gridiron Victoria was created in 1997.
Gridiron Fight happened in 1985.
Gridiron Fight was created in 1985.
Gridiron NSW was created in 1983.
Gridiron Queensland was created in 1985.
Gridiron Australia was created in 1996.
Gridiron - novel - has 374 pages.
The duration of Gridiron Gang is 2.1 hours.
Football is the official name for soccer. Soccer comes from the Football asssociation. Only in the USA and Canada do they say soccer. The global name for football is of course football. The global name for American football is gridiron. Gridiron is a code of rugby or handball and not football. Football is a sport where players control the ball with their feet and only football does this. Football has more participants in north America and gridiron has more spectators. Mainly because Americans prefer football but struggle with the technicalities and so they do better at gridiron which is a more basic sport.