A brown oval ball with white laces down the middle — that's the American-football emoji. It's for NFL Sundays, tailgates, fantasy football drafts, and Super Bowl season specifically, distinct from the round soccer ball used for the sport most of the world calls football.
What 🏈 means
An oval-shaped ball with two circular white markings on both ends and short stitch-like marks in between, very similar to the stitch in ⚾ Baseball and 🥎 Softball.
The 🏈 American Football emoji represents 'gridiron' played in the USA and Canada. Having similar features to a rugby ball, this emoji works aptly only for American and/or Canadian football.
How and when to use it
- While sharing information about an upcoming football game, a live game, or even that of a previous match, you can use 🏈 in the caption.
- If you're going to watch the game, and you're either indicating the same to someone you're texting or inviting them to join you, use 🏈. For instance, "Hey. I'm watching the game, wanna join? 🏈 At a friend's place, lol. Not the stadium".
- Also, don't forget to pull 🏈 into the framework while sharing Super Bowl posts/reposts! It can be a news post, a viral post, a video/picture of the game, anything.
- Use 🏈 in the caption while sharing a birthday post, an appreciation post, or even a tribute post/repost dedicated to a football player.
Other Names
- 🏈 Canadian Football
- 🏈 USA Football
- 🏈 Gridiron
- 🏈 Super Bowl
- 🏈 Football
The lowdown
- Category
- Activities › sport
- Codepoints
U+1F3C8- Emoji version
- Emoji 0.6
- Shortcodes
:football:- Keywords
- american, ball, bowl, football, sport, super
How it looks across platforms
Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — 🏈 American Football or 🧎♀️➡️ Woman Kneeling: Facing Right?
Runs with a crowd
🏈 keeps company in sports emojis — tap-to-copy sets for when one emoji isn't enough.