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I've just started Rugby here in Germany, and decided to read the rule book to get a feel for what is allowed and not.
There is one thing football could still learn from it's ancestor - how to write easy to understand rules!
Other than that the popularity of football over rugby is obvious since (as it has been pointed out) football was rugby, which was adapted to the temperment and tastes of it's American audience.
On a side note, does basketball get counted as an American sport? Developed in New York, but by a Canadian I believe.
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