Football haters are understandable when they call football by that ridiculous word. But supposed football fans? You just embarrass yourself when you bow down to the gridiron world and let them claim the name of the world’s oldest and most popular team sport, football.

I’m sick of Americans’ excuses. The sport is football. If you can’t acknowledge that, then get the hell away from me.

THe association wanted a single set of rules and banned certain things used in other (many and varied) individual club rules including handling of the ball.

Those clubs that continued handling developed into Rugby Union Football. A schism developed between amateur and professionalism and the professionals broke way to form the Rugby Football League. It’s this form of football that’s closest to American Football (but not that close!).

Other forms of football are Gaelic Football and Australian Rules Football. But they’re all descended from football in it’s original form.

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Feigning of injury and rolling around on the floor like they’ve been shot sickens everyone.

It is deliciously ironic that the English get so upset about Americans, Australians and others calling the game soccer when it was they who invented the word. I encourage you to remind an Englishman of this fact at every opportunity. It drives them mad.