While watching the Oakland Raiders playing soggy American football against the Seattle SeaHawks, I heard broadcast announcer Dan Dierdorf describe Ricky Watters, one of the players, as "a gamer" because he (Watters) was playing injured. I thought Dierdorf quite the neologist for deriving this word from the adjective "game" meaning willing to carry something through to the end. However, upon looking it up, I found "gamer" was first used in 1630 to describe someone willing to compete. Like the song says, "Everyhing old is new again."