In honor of the Super Bowl, I figured I should do a football fact. We always hear about the line of scrimmage, but I really never hear the word scrimmage used outside of sports.  Scrimmage is related to skirmish- a contest between disputing parties.  Scrimmage and scrum (in rugby) are also related, as scrum is just a shortening of “scrummage.”  It’s pretty straight forward.  More straight forward than why we call it “football.”  Actually, it’s pretty much the same reason-  American football derived from rugby, where “football” is a much more fitting name.  What doesn’t make sense is that the New Orleans Saints are actually in the Super Bowl.  Or the fact that we may see more of Peyton Manning on commercial breaks than actually during the game.  Over/under 10— how many times will we hear the commentators say that Peyton Manning is a “student of the game”?