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American and Canadian Football Leagues

Différance; American and Canadian Football

The origins of the sport of football date back to the mid 1800s. The sport, according to historians, was invented by the Europeans. Ironically, “the first recorded game of football was played between Canada’s McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, and Harvard University in Massachusetts, USA” (LeBlanc 1). Since the mid 1800s, Canada and the United States have developed their own rules and methods of playing the game. By using Jacques Derrida’s views on Différance, we’re able to see the differences, as well as the similarities between each country’s versions of the same sport. For example, the American and Canadian Football Leagues both wear uniforms and play with a football. An obvious statement about their leagues, but it’s to prove that both leagues have similarities between them. Although the similarities of the two leagues are often times stated, the differences of the two will be more distinguished between...

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