tsuwm informs: you know, all this input on various forms of football, soccer, rugby, footy, etc. makes it very clear to me now how (and why) MAD magazine came up with the game of 43-man squamish...

Rather partial here to the grandbaby, Quidditch (viz. Harry Potter) ['knowing-look-to-jmh (is-this-faux-emoticon-thing-going-too-far?)' emoticon]