Poll: (American) Football, or Rugby?
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Rugby League only has 6 forwards (no flankers).BringBackBuck said:You're doing it wrong:anANGRYkangaroo said:
Of course, as a ruggerbugger, I will accept Rugby League being defined as 'doing it wrong'... All that fucking stopping and starting, might as well put buckets on their heads and play american football.
May I just say that as a Rugby player and a big fan of the NFL, there is literally no comparison between the two games. Each Sport has completely different rules and strategies the only similarities involved are that there is contact and the aim is to get the ball to the other end of the field. I get tired of hearing this argument "blah blah american footballers wear pads" - yes because the tackling is far less restrained and dangerous where as rugby (union especially) the rules on tackling while still very demanding physically requires far more restraint. The balls are different, the tackling is different, the passing is pretty much completely the opposite, there are no rucks/mauls/scrums in Football and in rugby the players are required to specialise slightly less whereas in football you have often just one job to do and you must do it well.
Rugby Union all the way.
Rugby League is already too stop and start for me, while American Football games are only an hour long, but takes four hours to play, it stops so much (or something like that, though I appreciate the tactical play involved).
RU is much more free flowing and watching the tackles fly and the subtle movement of the backs can't be beaten (even by football, when most of the 'subtle' movement is just charging into space). Used to play as a scrum half or full back when I was in high school, but one thing: when I'm high tackled, I'm well within my rights to kick your head in.
Rugby League is already too stop and start for me, while American Football games are only an hour long, but takes four hours to play, it stops so much (or something like that, though I appreciate the tactical play involved).
RU is much more free flowing and watching the tackles fly and the subtle movement of the backs can't be beaten (even by football, when most of the 'subtle' movement is just charging into space). Used to play as a scrum half or full back when I was in high school, but one thing: when I'm high tackled, I'm well within my rights to kick your head in.
American Football is just Rugby for pussies. And I don't like Rugby. Now figure out what I think of American Football.
Some fine looking rugby playing women aswell.anANGRYkangaroo said:
Im a rugby player and I love it. Its phyiscally harder than American football(Football has only 45 seconds, on average, of high intensity exercise compared to rugbs 7 whole minutes. Dont believe me? Ask the NFL players who switched to rugby)
Im currently in quite alot of pain from rugbys pre-season training at the mo aswell
Scrum half. My team had a 70 pound, 4 ft 8 Indian kid as our scrum half, and he was amazing.
For you Football fans, to decide which team gets the ball after a penalty or anything like that, there is either a scrum or a throw in (cant remember if there was a term for that)
A scrum is 6 people on each team, pushing against each other over the ball, trying to kick it backward. The scrum half acts like a quarterback taking a hut, once he gets the ball he can pass it off, or run up the field and pass off later.
Because he was so tiny, it was easy for him to stop on a dime and turn, therefor avoiding some of the larger guys, while also having a throw path below where most people reach to catch, making it more difficult to intercept.
If the other teams scrum half gets the ball instead, out scrum half can run around and try to tackle him. Ours JUMPED over the scrum quite often, not necessarily tackling him, but intercepting a pass, giving us forward momentum.[/quote]
1. "throw in" is a line out
2. there are 8 players in a scrum assuming you are talking about union
(by the fact you mentioned lineout i assume you are)
3. you can't jump over a scrum or a ruck, however if their scrum half does gain possession the
likelyhood is that your flankers will take him out (those are the extra two positions you
get in union)
For you Football fans, to decide which team gets the ball after a penalty or anything like that, there is either a scrum or a throw in (cant remember if there was a term for that)
A scrum is 6 people on each team, pushing against each other over the ball, trying to kick it backward. The scrum half acts like a quarterback taking a hut, once he gets the ball he can pass it off, or run up the field and pass off later.
Because he was so tiny, it was easy for him to stop on a dime and turn, therefor avoiding some of the larger guys, while also having a throw path below where most people reach to catch, making it more difficult to intercept.
If the other teams scrum half gets the ball instead, out scrum half can run around and try to tackle him. Ours JUMPED over the scrum quite often, not necessarily tackling him, but intercepting a pass, giving us forward momentum.[/quote]
1. "throw in" is a line out
2. there are 8 players in a scrum assuming you are talking about union
(by the fact you mentioned lineout i assume you are)
3. you can't jump over a scrum or a ruck, however if their scrum half does gain possession the
likelyhood is that your flankers will take him out (those are the extra two positions you
get in union)
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That man is part of the reason I like football more than Rugby. There are some big hits in Rugby, but for a man his size, he can move like crazy and just hammer people. Being from the same college doesn't hurt either.
As an aside, even with all that padding and helmets etc., American Football players still get some horrendous injuries and have a very high concussion rate.
That man is part of the reason I like football more than Rugby. There are some big hits in Rugby, but for a man his size, he can move like crazy and just hammer people. Being from the same college doesn't hurt either.
As an aside, even with all that padding and helmets etc., American Football players still get some horrendous injuries and have a very high concussion rate.
Watch and used to play rugby, because rugby players don't need all that ridiculous armour. It's similar to the reason that I don't watch football too often because as soon as a boot so much as taps someone they dive to the floor in a desperate bid for the referee's attention. Rugby players don't give a shit. They get back up and get on with it.
RhombusHatesYou said:Rugby League only has 6 forwards (no flankers).BringBackBuck said:You're doing it wrong:anANGRYkangaroo said:
Of course, as a ruggerbugger, I will accept Rugby League being defined as 'doing it wrong'... All that fucking stopping and starting, might as well put buckets on their heads and play american football.
1. "throw in" is a line outMrDeano89 said:
2. there are 8 players in a scrum assuming you are talking about union
(by the fact you mentioned lineout i assume you are)
3. you can't jump over a scrum or a ruck, however if their scrum half does gain possession the
likelyhood is that your flankers will take him out (those are the extra two positions you
get in union)[/quote]
1-Thanks, I cant believe I forgot that
2-There were only 6, but that does vary from league to league, country to country. There wasnt a high level of enrollment in rugby in my area, so that might be why it was only 6 people
3-You arent supposed to, but that was never something that particular player took into consideration
And the refs always seemed to miss it. The flankers should have take him out most of the time, but as I explained before, he was friggin quick
After doing a bit of photography of some baseball games (for a school paper), thus forcing me to actually watch some games, I found that baseball seems like one of the most booooring sports to watch. As a teacher of mine once said, "It's definitely not a good spectator sport when a perfect game is two guys playing catch for 7 rounds."direkiller said:
baseball is 9 inningstthor said:
highschool i think they shorten it to 7 so pitchers don't kill there arms by the time there 25
i know they restrict the number of pinches they can toss per game
