That's not all that accurate. In the year of our lord 1797 in Croydon, Great Britain, Sir Reginald Wilberforce Bleecher was developing a sportsman's challenge that would entail the athlete to to leap over numerous planks of wood while running up hill. Sir Bleecher mapped out this game and had a few of his comrades help him set up this obstacle course. Exhausted after completing this task, Sir Bleecher and his comrades retired for the evening. The next day, when returning to the work site, to their amazement, a football game was taking place and the spectators were sitting on these wooden planks because the grass was wet from a rainfall in the early morning - hence the creation of the Bleecher and it's accidental invented purpose.