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In lugnet.promo, Sanjay D'Souza writes:
> From what I hear American Football is a derivative of Rugby. Seems strange
> to call it American Football as the ball's hardly kicked. Then again
> American Football also known as Gridion but I hardly ever hear it mentioned
> as such.
Actually, it's the field (in American Football) that's known as the Gridiron.
Why, I have no idea. I don't watch sports.
eric
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| N. Hoogerbrug <ringebu@knoware.nl> wrote in message news:38347F42.1B3589...ware.nl... (...) Read (URL) German. But it aint clear why the hack Americans call a rugby like and related (...) From what I hear American Football is a derivative of Rugby. (...) (25 years ago, 19-Nov-99, to lugnet.promo, lugnet.town)
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