Dave’s Football Blog

Dave’s Football Blog is, as the title suggests, about football — all kinds of football.

You see, no matter where on Earth you may travel, chances are you’ll find people who are absolutely crazy about football — just not always the same kind of football. There’s one game called football in America. There’s a slightly different game called football in Canada. The British have two different forms of football, both of which are played in many parts of the world. If you travel to Australia or Ireland, you’ll see completely different forms of football in both those countries, too.

Yet just about everywhere, the most popular sport is called “football.” How did that happen? And why are we all so protective of our own native football games?

This blog will attempt to examine the origins and the evolution of football — how all these different games called football came to be, why we’re all so obsessed with them, and where football might go as we progress through in the 21st century, because despite what certain school board members in Kansas might tell you, football didn’t just drop out of the sky in its current form. No, my friends, football evolves, and that evolution is a topic that not enough people explore.

After all, these are all just man-made games with man-made rules. All those people who argue that their favorite form of football is “the real football” don’t really get it. We choose how to play football, and we could choose to change how we play whenever we want…

About the blogger

Dave Warner is a life-long sports fan who has been blogging about American pro football since 2003. In addition to maintaining this blog, Dave writes about both the National Football League and the world of Association football for FanHouse, an AOL Sports site that is currently the most popular sports blog on the Internet. If you have a comment about this site, you can email him at dave[AT]davesfootballblog[DOT]com.

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