Why different rulesets?

[Robert Goodman]

Originally Posted by IRISHMAFIA

Because in this country there is a mind set that if I don't get what I want, I'm taking my bat and ball and finding other people who WILL do it my way.

It's not so much that as that since we're not going to be playing with them, why bother having the same rules?

Australia & New Zealand were on their way shortly after the introduction of Rugby Union to adopting their own rules variants the same as Canadian & American football developed. But then they started playing internationally and dropped such national rules as the "force down" score.

If basketball teams in the US & Canada played internationally a lot, I'm sure they'd go by one rule set.