We didn’t hijack anything. Go read up on the history of the games. Soccer and American football evolved separately from the same family of proto-football games

We didn’t hijack anything. Go read up on the history of the games. Soccer and American football evolved separately from the same family of proto-football games (as did Rugby and Australian football). These were all called “football” well before the modern rules of either current game had crystallized. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football