I know I shouldn’t simply direct people to random Youtube videos on here, but I’ve recently been wondering why the sport we call football here in the UK and the one they call football in America share the same name, and whether they share their origins. I just tapped ‘American football history’ into Youtube and found this succinct little explanation. Together with Rugby, it seems that they do indeed come from the same, fairly ancient place, the sport most of the world knows as football, but split about 160 years ago. When Rugby split from Football/soccer in 1863, it became popular in America, where they then went on to adapt it to form their own sport. Technically, it should have been known as American Rugby, or by it’s alternative name, Gridiron, but Americans insist on calling it football, causing endless confusion across the globe. That’s why we have three very different sports, all sharing the same name. Just a tidbit of random trivia for a Friday afternoon.