American football
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- Shortcode
:football:- Shortcode
:american_football:- Unicode
U+1F3C8- HTML
🏈- CSS
\1F3C8- JavaScript
"\u{1F3C8}"- URL
%F0%9F%8F%88
What ๐ means
A brown football with white laces. It stands for American football: game day, the NFL, college games and the Super Bowl.
Tailgates, fantasy football leagues and Sunday plans use it, often with ๐๏ธ or ๐. In US work chat it signals weekend game talk.
Outside North America "football" means โฝ; ๐ is rugby, which looks similar.
Facts
American football ๐ is an emoji in the activities category, under sport. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 6.0 (2010). On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :football: or :american_football:. People also look for it with words like โamericanโ, โballโ, โbowlโ, or โfootballโ.
Timeline
- 2010Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 6.0)
Design history
Google (Noto)
2015
2017
2021
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2014
2016
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.