(August 28, 2021 at 12:35 pm)Brian37 Wrote:(August 28, 2021 at 11:25 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: I played rugby from age ten until I was in my late forties, so yeah - rugby play and rules are second nature to me. I’ve never found gridiron style particularly compelling (nothing against it, just not to my taste).
Interesting factlet: Early on, American and Canadian football were considered variants of rugby.
Boru
I think it is widely understood that what people outside the United States call "football" and not "European footbol" or "soccer" stems from what is commonly known as rugby.
I have no idea what that sentence means.
Boru
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