[untenured]

I don't know why American football is so popular in the US, but it looks like the English had great skill developing games that were more interesting than soccer -- which most of the rest of the world adopted as their favorite sport.

The English also invented most of the racquet sports (there is a bit of dispute about tennis, but not squash or badminton), and the Scots invented golf. The peoples of the island of Britain have been the greatest inventors of sports in history.

[discostu]

They invent them, then they stink at them.