Hi! My favorite sport is football, which we call gridiron football in the United States, not like what is typically referred to as soccer.
Okay, I like American football as well I think it is a staple in our culture at this point.
It certainly is. The United States has such a diverse culture. It's often interesting to think about how things like football were created.
I agree, they say the first game was played on November 6, 1869 but I'm not sure how they created it.
It seems that early American football could be traced to rugby which is also a pretty violent contact sport.
Wow! I have heard of rugby and am familiar with its violent nature. That makes sense and also must mean that rugby existed first right?
Rugby union
Rugby union, widely known simply as rugby, is a contact team sport which originated in England in the first half of the 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand. In its most common form, a game is between two teams of 15 players using an oval-shaped ball on a rectangular field with H-shaped goalposts at each end.
Rugby union is a popular sport around the world, played by male and female
College football national championships in NCAA Division I FBS
A national championship in the highest level of college football in the United States, currently the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS), is a designation awarded annually by various organizations to their selection of the best college football team. Division I FBS football is the only National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) sport for which the NCAA does not sanction a yearly championship event. As such, it is sometimes unofficially referred to as a "mythical national championship".