Confused by past Presidents!

I suppose it is similar to the custom in the UK of still referring to senior military officers by their rank after they have retired. As for cricket, the word for the sport and the insect come from different etymological sources.

@JohnRoberts Rugby comes from Rugby! This is a town about 30 miles from where I live, and is also where there is a famous public school (OK - it's what you would call a private school, but let's not go down that road now!). It was at this school in the late 19th century that the game was developed. The story runs that a schoolboy, William Webb Ellis, thought that it might be more fun to pick the ball up and run with it, rather than kick it. OK - believe it or not, but that's the story! There are two codes of rugby football, Union and League, and the American version of Football bears a passing resemblance to Rugby League. I am very keen on cricket - watching as opposed to playing. It beats the pants off baseball as a sport, in my opinion. There is much more subtlety and variation to it, and therefore more interest. Incidentally, did you know that we Brits invented baseball? But we let you have it and stuck to cricket!

@indexer I know your definition of football differs and get it but cricket makes no sense to us. And why is rugby rugby? Where did that name come from? There is also Australia Rules Football.

To be perfectly honest, there`s a lot of strangeness everywhere!

@indexer Indeed there is. Nice strangeness is good.

That would make sense.