3. TIL American Football is the 9th most popular sport in the world. It is beaten b...

TIL American Football is the 9th most popular sport in the world. It is beaten by both Volleyball and Table Tennis.

Soccer is called “soccer” because it’s a nickname for “association football”.

Rugby is technically called “rugby football” because it was invented at the Rugby School, which is an old posh English boarding school.

American football/NFL was originally known as “gridiron football”.

They’re all differently evolved codes of the family of sports of “football”, because they’re played with a ball, on your feet, and at various points you kick that ball.

This is all historical etymology shit, it doesn’t fully make sense for all cases and isn’t a perfect closed system so please don’t start questioning it too much.

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