I say football, you say futbol

(Sam here) The attitude towards "American" football (which I now say out of habit) is that people are mostly curious but they really have no idea about the rules or the general concept. People really seem to like playing football, like the guards at school, and if our parents arrive late to pick us up the guards will come and throw the ball with me and Zach. Once one of the guards even happened to say "I am running back" in labored English. Remarkably, whenever I bring the ball out to recess almost anyone there can form a spiral or a near spiral and land the ball within a 3 foot radius of their target. My two best friends here are the most interested in it though, and my one friend Kayra has made multiple requests for me to bring my football and throws like a true American. My other friend Mat has asked me to teach him the rules of football so that he could understand what he is doing while playing Madden.

In the parks there are always a couple of people who stop and stare at us throwing the football in awe of the spinning egg shaped thing. BUT...it does not  receive the level of respect as the soccer ball, which I have now begun to call the football. When the soccer ball rolls into the street all cars stop dead in their path for us to go and retrieve it, but when the football rolls into the street we have to chase after it because car drivers seem to not even notice it.