Quote ="Cronus"Quote ="mrpurfect"Sport was invented by the upper class so they had something to do outdoors in the summers good weather, like lawn tennis and cricket, which is why cricket lasts 5 days (a working week) and both stop play when it rains.
Football was invented so they had something to do during the cricket off season and rugby came from football, that is the only reason why football and rugby was played in winter. Don't you know your history?'"
Did someone really just say all that?
"Tarquin, I'm cold and bored. Let's invent a sport to keep me occupied."'"
To be fair, it is the accepted history of how AFL came in to being:
Quote ="afl.com.au"
In 1857, Tom Wills, one of the founders of Australian Football, returned to Australia after schooling in England where he was football captain of Rugby School and a brilliant cricketer. Initially, he advocated the winter game of football as a way of keeping cricketers fit during off-season.
The new game was devised by Wills, his cousin H.C.A. Harrison, W.J. Hammersley and J.B. Thompson.'"
I'm not entirely sure that's how Association Football and Rugby Football came in to being though
