Don't forget about Canadian football. edit >Was it a patriotism thing, to ignore the world's most popular sport, and make their own one where America will alw

Don't forget about Canadian football. edit >Was it a patriotism thing, to ignore the world's most popular sport, and make their own one where America will always be no. 1? In America they were playing something like rugby football and eventually dropped the rugby part at roughly the same time England was playing association football and dropped the association part. It was hardly the most popular worldwide sport at the time.