Instead of spoiling the frontroom Rugby World Cup thread with this debate of which sport came from which one, play the ball here.

From Wiki:
Both American football and soccer have their origins in varieties of football played in the United Kingdom in the mid-19th century. American football is directly descended from rugby football. The majority of the plays in a typical American football game involve handling the ball rather than kicking it.
Australian Football League:
Australian rules football dates back to 1858, when Tom Wills began to devise the rules of the code. Melbourne Football Club was formed on August 7, 1858. On May 17, 1859, at the Parade Hotel in East Melbourne, Wills, W.J. Hammersley and J.B. Thompson wrote the first set of written rules for Australian rules football. By 1866, several other clubs had also adopted an updated version of Melbourne's rules. In 1877, the amateur Victorian Football Association was established.
Enjoy the debate.