american football is slightly similar only
Rugby
American football or rugby
The game of rugby is most similar to the American game of football. In both games there is a ball, running with the ball, and kicking the ball. Rugby is played in more nations than is American style football. Rugby is, however, a sport played in most US colleges & universities.
Rugby/American football.
The British Lions, now known as the British and Irish Lions, play rugby union football.
The sport Rugby League is the same as in the USA. The competition however is called; American National Rugby League
Rugby Football
Soccer --> Rugby --> American Football
American football is an overly simplified version of rugby league.
This is a bit of a complicated question, based on nationality... If you are from the USA, football is a version of the British sport Rugby, invented at Rugby School (at Rugby.) If you are British, football has evolved over time from a medieval sport in which a pig's stomach was blown up and kicked around.
Because we are in the us and American football is played here rugby is a sport most Americans are not used to.