New York Jets punter Braden Mann attempted a kick in an NFL game on Sunday that would have made former Tottenham Hotspur star Erik Lamela proud. Adam Snavely compares Mann's "rabona" attempt to Lamela's, soccer's leading specialist in the technique.
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If you're talking about football in the United States, you're usually talking about the gridiron variety. In terms of popular culture and how language has evolved, football in the U.S. means the egg-shaped sport more akin to rugby, whereas the world's game goes by the colloquial English shortening of the "association football" term: soccer.