Football is a classic English sport, innit?

[Guns 'n' Roses]

Why was it never picked up by the colonies? It's not a commonwealth sport, like cricket and ruggers, is it? Is it because it was a working class sport from the very beginning? The chaps that inhabited Oz were pretty much working class though, weren't they?

[71 Guns - channeling the spirit of Mr Hat]

psychopathic tendencies it transmogrified into Aussie Rules.
I don't know that for sure though.