The SB Commercial was right...Canada DID really invent football

[Big Turk]

As well as apparently all other major sporting leagues we follow in the US?  MLB, NFL, NBA and NHL all had their roots in Canada?  That's crazy...

 

In 1874 McGill University in Montreal sent a letter challenging Harvard to a few friendly games in Cambridge, MA of "foot-ball" which Harvard accepted.  The first game too place in May of 1874 and had 500 spectators watching.

 

The first recorded game of Canadian Football took place in 1861.

 

https://www.distractify.com/p/did-canada-invent-football

Edited February 13, 2023 by Big Turk

[Pine Barrens Mafia]

I think they're wrong on basketball. I thought that was invented in Springfield Massachusetts.

 

And baseball is American as well.

[WhoTom]

That commercial also said that Canada invented the battery. Well, a Canadian did invent the alkaline cell, but the battery was invented by Alessandro Volta in Italy.

 

You could argue that Canada made the first commercially-viable battery, in the same way that Edison created the first commercially-viable light bulb, although he didn't invent the light bulb itself.

26 minutes ago, Pine Barrens Mafia said:

I think they're wrong on basketball. I thought that was invented in Springfield Massachusetts.

 

True, but James Naismith was a Canadian.

 

 

[DrBob806]

Football was invented in Canton, Ohio fyi

[hondo in seattle]

Football didn't become football until Walter Camp.

[K D]

Let them have this. They need something

[Doc]

Another lesser known fact is they originally spelled it foutball. 

[Fleezoid]

I thought Al Gore invented all those sports.

 

[Augie]

23 hours ago, Big Turk said:

As well as apparently all other major sporting leagues we follow in the US?  MLB, NFL, NBA and NHL all had their roots in Canada?  That's crazy...

 

In 1874 McGill University in Montreal sent a letter challenging Harvard to a few friendly games in Cambridge, MA of "foot-ball" which Harvard accepted.  The first game too place in May of 1874 and had 500 spectators watching.

 

The first recorded game of Canadian Football took place in 1861.

 

https://www.distractify.com/p/did-canada-invent-football

 

It was unusually cold that day for that time of the year, but my dad bought us overpriced sweatshirts in the Harvard bookstore to keep warm. I was young at the time, but I could tell that foot-ball thing was going to take off! 

[Gugny]

Why would anyone ever doubt Dave Grohl?

[Big Turk]

22 hours ago, DrBob806 said:

Football was invented in Canton, Ohio fyi

 

Sorry it was not....the pro football hall of fame is Canton according to their own site for 3 primary reasons:

 

History

The Pro Football Hall of Fame is located in Canton, Ohio, for three primary reasons:

(1) the American Professional Football Association, later renamed the National Football League, was founded in Canton on Sept. 17, 1920;

(2) the Canton Bulldogs were an early pro football power, even before the days of the NFL. They were also the first two-time champion of the NFL, in 1922 and 1923. The great Jim Thorpe, the first big-name athlete to play pro football, played his first pro football with the Bulldogs, starting in 1915;

(3) Canton citizens early in the 1960s launched a determined and well-organized campaign to earn the site designation for their city.

 

The Canton Bulldogs came into existence in 1903, more than 30 years after the first game was played in the US.

22 hours ago, WhoTom said:

That commercial also said that Canada invented the battery. Well, a Canadian did invent the alkaline cell, but the battery was invented by Alessandro Volta in Italy.

 

You could argue that Canada made the first commercially-viable battery, in the same way that Edison created the first commercially-viable light bulb, although he didn't invent the light bulb itself.

 

True, but James Naismith was a Canadian.

 

 

 

There is some evidence the battery actually was invented in ancient Egypt and some believe it is pictured in artwork on the pyramid walls.

[WhoTom]

28 minutes ago, Big Turk said:

There is some evidence the battery actually was invented in ancient Egypt and some believe it is pictured in artwork on the pyramid walls.

 

They've found artifacts too, but it's still questionable whether the jars in question constituted voltaic cells or were just used as storage vessels. So far, there's no evidence of them having powered anything or having been strung together to increase their voltage.

 

[Big Turk]

23 minutes ago, WhoTom said:

 

They've found artifacts too, but it's still questionable whether the jars in question constituted voltaic cells or were just used as storage vessels. So far, there's no evidence of them having powered anything or having been strung together to increase their voltage.

 

 

the more interesting question becomes how did the builders see inside when torches/lights would not have enough oxygen to stay lit and any sort of mirrors to reflect sunlight quickly became too weak when having to go around corners. Outside of having a light source there would have been pitch blackness.

Edited February 14, 2023 by Big Turk

[thenorthremembers]

5 hours ago, KDIGGZ said:

Let them have this. They need something

They have maple syrup, socks and sandles, and Gordon Lightfoot...they'll be fine.

[Ned Flanders]

[RiotAct]

I thought baseball evolved from rounders, which was (correct me if I’m wrong) a British game?

[WhoTom]

2 minutes ago, RiotAct said:

I thought baseball evolved from rounders, which was (correct me if I’m wrong) a British game?

 

I thought it came from cricket. Turns out, we're both right.

https://www.history.com/news/who-invented-baseball

Quote

References to games resembling baseball in the United States date back to the 18th century. Its most direct ancestors appear to be two English games: rounders (a children’s game brought to New England by the earliest colonists) and cricket. 

 

[Donuts and Doritos]

Sorry Canada. But the 1st American Football game was played November 6, 1869 between Rutgers vs Princeton in New Brunswick NJ.

 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_football

 

Walter Camp is considered the father of American Football & was an American.

 

https://connecticuthistory.org/the-father-of-american-football-is-born-today-in-history-april-7/#:~:text=Walter Camp is credited with,stemmed from Walter Camp's influence.

 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Camp

 

[WhoTom]

3 hours ago, Fleezoid said:

I thought Al Gore invented all those sports.

 

No, it was George Santos.

 

[Low Positive]

22 minutes ago, Donuts and Doritos said:

Sorry Canada. But the 1st American Football game was played November 6, 1869 between Rutgers vs Princeton in New Brunswick NJ.

 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_football

 

Walter Camp is considered the father of American Football & was an American.

 

https://connecticuthistory.org/the-father-of-american-football-is-born-today-in-history-april-7/#:~:text=Walter Camp is credited with,stemmed from Walter Camp's influence.

 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Camp

 

In that same Wiki article, it notes that 11 v. 11 football with snaps and the forward pass was considered the "Canadian" version of the game. The "American" version had a round ball, you couldn't pick the ball up, and had 25-man teams.