Quote: Paul Thexton "Please tell me you don't believe the Webb Ellis story? Rugby is not an offshoot from Association Football.'"
All forms of football come from the first football game. In the same way American football and Aussie Rules did.
The WWE story is clearly made up but someone somewhere had to decide to do something different and they were kicking the ball before us so it implies we developed from that.
Either way, Rugby League was born the day they decided to split. Rugby was born when someone decided what the rules of rugby were a few years earlier.