Possible Clues:

• Calamitous sport with oval ball in America takes over
• Dire game across Atlantic, involving ball
• Remains around in France where it's cataclysmic
• Sport in America includes nothing drastic
• Exorbitant game's number one streetwise talent
• Causing or likely to cause damage
• Game in Ohio, America, is exorbitant
• One brought in to govern over America, having a dreadful effect
• Catastrophic game, I sense
• Destructive and causing downfall