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Great comment. Football teams formed as workers’ rec teams in many Western Eruopean countries, and simply became a reflection of the surrounding cultural milieu and material conditions.
Also America has the same rec sport history with college football which was amateur for over a hundred years and took until only a few years ago to officially go pro.
For over decades the second largest sport in america was the amateur college football conferences which are now professional
Similar working class sports leagues used to exist in America but they all died probably like, 80 or so years ago.
The MLB and NFL were truly revolutionary in their tactics and ability to demolish the competition and monopolize a country the size of a continent.
There used to be dozens of baseball leagues for instance, separated by prestige, class, region, and race
They're all gone now