The floor is the sea floor or the floor of a cave, or in a room. Not outside. Is it proper to call it the floor in stadiums that have a roof? Is that what started it? It seems very odd.The floor is the sea floor or the floor of a cave, or in a room. Not outside. Is it proper to call it the floor in stadiums that have a roof? Is that what started it? It seems very odd.

I've never really come across that but I can understand why they use it. They refer to floor as anything beneath you/person/rugby player...they also use ground as well (sometimes) and "deck" as in deck of a ship. It's just a figure of speech to make the commentary more interesting... Edit: Here's some interesting commentary. Super rugby match, Brumbies against,,,uh, I can't remember...anyway Phil Kearns is like: "McCabe...Pat McCabe...tearing up the defence like a wild mountain goat"...hahaha! Needless to say the "wild mountain goat" approach didn't work coz the Brumbies lost that game! :(

Hey come on ! -- its just a bit of rugby colloquialism/jargon from them which you hear from many commentators from other sports Footy commentators also refer to the ground as the deck, pitch, grass, bottom, and turf -- is it that difficult to understand that they are talking about a rugby field ?

maybe the term floor is more flexible, indoor or outdoor just like in level 10th floor or ground floor as in ground area or floor area, like when someone says" hit the deck" it means ground or floor,,, maybe the commentators wish to snatch and attract the attention of the listening viewers if they are pretty much busy viewing beautiful lady passingbye. in general floor is made of tough and hard composite materials, thesame rugby is a tough and hard sport .

They say it on the news as well lol

Its the platform....floor. Not very hard...