Joe Rogan is a big combat sports fan. However, his knowledge of other sports is not bad either. Recently, the number one podcast host in the world amazed his audience with an interesting fact about football that many would not know.

On his highly popular podcast, Joe Rogan Experience, episode #1808, Rogan had fellow stand-up comedian Dan Soder on the deck. After asking Soder about his football beginnings in school, Rogan talked about the origin of football.

Rogan said, “They invented it to get people’s minds off of war. They gave people, like, a distraction.”

Soder suggested it ‘make sense’ and offered how it would’ve played out. “let’s do tiny trench war,’” and suggested how sport has made millionaires out of athletes.

Even earlier, Rogan had talked about how games came from war. During his conversation with the guest Tom Papa on JRE #1789, Rogan talked about how wars and games are co-related.

The former Fear Factor host said, “Well, sports are basically a proxy of war. Right? It’s kind of, it’s like a fake war.”.

Even Tom Papa agreed with Rogan and termed sports as a ‘replacement of war’. “It’s like when the Raiders are going to play Dolphins. It’s basically, Florida is going to war with Las Vegas,” Rogan said before offering football’s origin.

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Joe Rogan discussed Alexander Volkanovski’s switch from Rugby to MMA

Any inspiring story interested Joe Rogan; UFC featherweight champion Alexander ‘The Great‘ Volkanovski has one. The number one podcast talked about the Aussie’s amazing transformation from a 214 lbs Rugby player to a world-class MMA fighter.

The Aussie suggested how he had a late start with his MMA career. Volkanovski said, “I was a lot big, and I wanted to stay fit in between… preseason. So, that’s why I went and started and just loved it ever since.”

The short time frame in which Volkanovski mastered world-class skills impressed Rogan. The UFC commentator also said, “Rugby is a tough f**king sport, that’s what I think Americans should play.”

Rogan offered he was not a big fan of all the padding that American football has. Also, he claimed Rugby is a safer sport.

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