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Why North American play Football US?and not rugby?
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<blockquote data-quote="sanzar" data-source="post: 50958"><p>Well the major factor here is that Gridiron evolved from rugby over 100 years ago when rugby was basically still one big a slow moving booring scrum/maul... The yanks liked the idea of rugby, but wanted something less tied up (as the scrum was the predominant part of the game and tries were not worth points) so they developed their own game along similar lines. As a result it seems rugby was close to forgotton in favour of 'the American game', but it does seem to have a slowly growing awarness there now that it is professional and has also become much much more entertaining game to watch than it was 100 years ago (which is something that it in part owes to the pioneering done by rugby league in it's rule changes).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="sanzar, post: 50958"] Well the major factor here is that Gridiron evolved from rugby over 100 years ago when rugby was basically still one big a slow moving booring scrum/maul... The yanks liked the idea of rugby, but wanted something less tied up (as the scrum was the predominant part of the game and tries were not worth points) so they developed their own game along similar lines. As a result it seems rugby was close to forgotton in favour of 'the American game', but it does seem to have a slowly growing awarness there now that it is professional and has also become much much more entertaining game to watch than it was 100 years ago (which is something that it in part owes to the pioneering done by rugby league in it's rule changes). [/QUOTE]
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