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Message: [QUOTE="SubbaBub, post: 3967051, member: 523"] Soccer only requires a ball and sometimes anything crumpled into something resembling a ball will do. This is why it's the global game. Pro/rel is a direct result of this fact. Every village, hamlet, and workcamp had an amatuer team. These teams played neighboring villages, hamlets, and workcamp. At some point, the English FA became organized enough that divisions were formed, players were paid real wages and the the football ladder was established. Why is the Super Bowl on a Sunday? Why is March mad? Tradition and eventually it became part of the culture. No one club or group of clubs ever gained enough power to change it. On this side of the pond, American football was grabbed by a bunch of rich men who could afford to field professional teams very early on. That investment led to a closed NFL. The difference between slow and fast cooking during the early years of the sport. [/QUOTE]