Unsure how to classify Canadian Football. It is similar to the version played in the United States, but there are some rules differences -- 12 men instead of 11, different field dimensions. Would it go under "American Football" anyway, with the differences noted (as was done with College Football)?

Where does arena football go? Also it is most similar to American football.

I would put Canadian football in its own category. The rules differences between college football and the NFL are extremely minor, but the differences with Canadian football are signficant enough that, while it clearly belongs in the same family as American football, the play of the game is really quite different (three downs versus four on the one hand, and lack of motion penalties and other offensive benefits on the other, create a game where posession changes hands rapidly, teams score rapidly, and overall the flow of the game is just different). One way to approach this would be to put Canadian and American football under the same family of "Gridiron" football.

Why does the article 'football' have to be about soccer, with a small list at the top to go to other forms of football?? Soccer isn't the only form of football, so why doesn't all this information go in 'soccer' and this article only be a list of different forms of soccer? If nobody else does, I will soon fiddle around with the football articles, so that the article for soccer is at soccer, not football. - Mark Ryan

The reason is that the game called "soccer" in the US and Canada is called "football" in almost every other country in the world. It's important to remember that Wikipedia is aiming to be an international encyclopedia, and as such, it won't always follow American conventions. --Stephen Gilbert

If ever there was a case for a disambiguation page, this is it. This article starts with a coy list of many many kinds of football before going off into a detailed description of one of them. Ortolan88

I suggest putting the first few paragraphs of this on a page called Games called football and starting this article off by saying something like.

There are many games called football played throughout out the world. For the vast majority of the world, football refers to the sport originally codified in England as Association Football and known in the USA as soccer ...... and then concentrate on this game.

Mintguy 15:11 Feb 6, 2003 (UTC)