Football, also known as American football or gridiron football, is the most popular spectator sport in the United States. But ...

With this year's big game now over, it's a good time to look back on how the game of football got to where it is today.

specifically to a famous incident at Rugby School in Warwickshire, England, in 1823. According to legend, a young player named William Webb Ellis, amid a game of football, picked up the ball and ...