Take that Larry K, you ill-educated Moron, get your history facts right.

America arrived very late to both world wars, Britain had already stalled the advance of Germany and Russia was going to clean up eventually anyway. Field Marshall Montgomery who is slagged off in saving private ryan, had defeated non only than Field Marshall Rommel in North Africa previously. Was only down to Pearl Harbour that America got their hooves in.

Britain was forced to leave the colonies due to the threat from France and a certain little emporer.

One sentence says it all:

Compare Rugby to American football!