by Michael Johnson

Created on: April 30, 2009   Last Updated: May 06, 2009

It seems that the evolution of football has been traced back to the late 1800s when the first football association was formed in England. In fact, people had been kicking something around for fun long before then but the only time the name football was formally adopted to describe any game was at the first Football Association meeting. It is a good bet that the game would have been known as football for some time previously. Certainly no other activity would have been called football back then,since there was only one game which the name described.

However, once the name football was formally adopted the liars and parasites, of which England has its share like anywhere else, came crawling out of the woodwork trying frantically to jump on the football bandwagon. The same behaviour has been painfully obvious recently with rock and roll,the World Cup and even marriage.

The first and worst offender was the idiotic mess of rugby. One day at a school in Rugby, England some boys were playing football when one of them lifted the ball. What an idiot that must have been! Other idiots thought this was a jolly neat idea so they put their thick heads together and came up with rugby. Fair enough, even idiots need something to keep them amused, but being liars as well as idiots they just couldn't leave it at that.

Some specimens actually had the nerve to turn up at the F.A. meeting when the name football was formally adopted and try to get rugby included (liars have more nerve than a bum tooth). Thankfully good sense prevailed and they were sent packing to crawl away and call their garbage rugby. It has since been an impoverished laughing stock even in England where it was cooked up. People in North America don't know that.

A long time after that comedy, rugby was copied in what was then the sporting backwater of North America, but what did liars call it? No prizes for guessing football! What a bunch of bananas. Since then a version of rugby has been called football in Australia. Fools never learn. What happened to rugby in England just didn't penetrate their thick skulls.

England, along with every other country, has its share of football hating idiots, although these specimens have got away with murder in North America. The football coverage in North America is actually better than it ever was in Britain thanks to the explosion of interest currently taking place there. However, football hating specimens have wormed their way into t.v. stations on both sides of the Atlantic and these characters are hell bent on keeping football off the air whenever possible. The arrogant swine obviously think that instead of performing a public service they can get away with inflicting garbage on people. As a result,poker and fishing have found their way on to some sports shows. That's simply madness.

However, the future looks bright for football in North America. The English league structure is a tried and tested model which has worked well everywhere and it is only a matter of time until it is adopted.

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