The Rock On Rugby Compared to American Football

[Turley]

Football players wear pads not because they are "fatty Americans"

correct, as I said, they are fatty Americans so they have to have two teams, an offensive team and a defensive team. They are too fat to play the whole game.

I completely agree with you on the issue of padding. It is proven that the collision is of a higher impact im Gridiron but that doesnt equate to toughness. A fat guy charging at you isnt necessarily tougher than a skinny guy charging at you. The toughness in Rugby comes from the repeat efforts that are needed to play. If you get put down, the game doesnt stop so that you can do chicken dances or thug life hand signals at the camera. Rugby players have to get back up and keep playing. The same guy can take ten hits in a play, that just doesnt happen in Gridiron.

Basically I am saying that Rugby is a tougher sport. This doesnt mean that the people playing it are any tougher but the rules and principles make for a tougher sport. Please, dont take this as a slur on your nationality, my opinion is purely from comparing two sports and their origins dont come into it. I am well aware that there are Americans that are tough enough to play rugby if they so choose....

[Goldie79]

No Boosh, I am not arguing against the fact that rugby is tougher, I never once said that. The point I was trying to make is that football players do not wear pads because they are soft or wimps, they wear them because it is the smart thing to do. And by the same token, isn't pretty much everyone else's opinion in this thread due to the fact that they like rugby more than football? So I am not the only person who would be arguing based on a perceived bias, now would I?

I'm not biased. I hate playing rugby. Far too physical for a wimp like me.
But I would say Rugby is tougher because of the lack of protective gear.
I always laugh when I hear the term football in the States.... because we call 'Soccer' football in the UK (afterall you use your feet right?).

[Shockage]

Source: Gerweck.net


The quote from former WWE superstar Chris Nowinski making the media rounds from Tuesday’s HBO Real Sports show on concussions in college football:


“There is an incredible amount of money in college football right now. And the one place it doesn’t go is to the people suffering the brain injuries. And that is not right. The money was made off their backs. At least take care of them for the injuries they sustained, especially if you consider that the trade they made was for education. Well, I promise you that guy going to the concussion doctor, the education–or the guy with ALS–the education is not very useful.”

[Shockage]

Source: yahoo.com


LOS ANGELES (AFP) - An assistant groundskeeper for the Cleveland Browns killed himself at the NFL team's practice facility, NFL.com reported Sunday, exacerbating an already traumatic weekend for the sport.

The Browns released a statement on their website confirming that employee Eric Eucker had died.

"This is a terrible tragedy and our heartfelt condolences go out to Eric's family. Eric was a good friend and colleague, and an outstanding employee. He will be missed by everyone in the Cleveland Browns organization."

The team gave no details, but NFL.com said the Cuyahoga County medical examiner's office had confirmed Eucker had been found dead of apparent hanging in a maintenance shed.

Eucker's body was discovered on Saturday, the same day that Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher shot and killed his girlfriend.

Belcher killed her at a house in the city then drove to the team's Arrowhead Stadium where he fatally shot himself outside the training facilities as some team personnel pleaded with him not to pull the trigger.

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well well well

[DevinJAM]

yeah, I would much rather prove my manliness and end up partially retarded from repeated concussions, good call. Us Americans must look really small while you're looking down your noses at us, yet we're the arrogant ones.

as i read this forum i saw this qoute was right, here i am a american who says that Rugbys tougher, but yet that really dont matter, all i see is opportunity for bigoted Australians to insult people from the states, ive been trying to leave this country for years because I dont want to raise a family here. but i still love this country for what it stood for. i would never raise my nose at the people of the states like you Australians do or any of you do, why you so bigoted and hateful did you get bet up by a american, did you get bullied by Americans, did you get your wife stolen by americans. hell every Amercian i know loves Australians.

[CT Baker]

Us Americans must look really small while you're looking down your noses at us, yet we're the arrogant ones.

And we have a thread winner.

Soccer is a game American children play when their parents are afraid to let them play proper Football.

And rugby is some goofy, inferior version of proper Football played by a handful of colleges. Those rugby boys would wet themselves if they saw James Harrison come running full speed at them and they'd surely bolt in the opposite direction before taking a direct hit from Vince Wilfork or Casey Hampton.

Haloti Ngata, proper Football player, owned a bunch of rugby jobbers before deciding to pursue a real man's sport

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgJp50sPjv4

His rugby dominance starts at the 26 second mark

[Shockage]

The great Jonah Lomu who in his prime stood at 6'5 and weighed a lean 275 did exactly what Holati did, but he did it to much bigger players, unlike players who were way beneath his weight and build.

Rugby is the man's game.

[Darth Shizzel]

as i read this forum i saw this qoute was right, here i am a american who says that Rugbys tougher, but yet that really dont matter, all i see is opportunity for bigoted Australians to insult people from the states, ive been trying to leave this country for years because I dont want to raise a family here. but i still love this country for what it stood for. i would never raise my nose at the people of the states like you Australians do or any of you do, why you so bigoted and hateful did you get bet up by a american, did you get bullied by Americans, did you get your wife stolen by americans. hell every Amercian i know loves Australians.

Oi all were doing is telling you which sport is tougher America as a country is fine when it comes to which style of football is the toughest Rugby League out ranks them all.

[Mighty Boosh]

And we have a thread winner.

Soccer is a game American children play when their parents are afraid to let them play proper Football.

And rugby is some goofy, inferior version of proper Football played by a handful of colleges. Those rugby boys would wet themselves if they saw James Harrison come running full speed at them and they'd surely bolt in the opposite direction before taking a direct hit from Vince Wilfork or Casey Hampton.

Haloti Ngata, proper Football player, owned a bunch of rugby jobbers before deciding to pursue a real man's sport

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgJp50sPjv4

His rugby dominance starts at the 26 second mark

Are you kidding, Rugby players are some of the toughest SOB's on the planet. And it's already been established that rugby is tougher than American Football.

[TheGame]

Soccer is a game American children play when their parents are afraid to let them play proper Football.

actually Association Football (AKA: Real Football) is the most popular, most widely played and richest sport on the planet. the only countries that don't see it like that are America and Canada. you'd think you Yanks would warm up to the sport since your team regularly qualifies for the World Cup and isn't actually half-bad, but that's beside the point.

let's look at the facts here, you take a big hit in American Football you get a few minutes to rest and get any medical attention needed while the play you aren't part of takes over.
you take a big hit in Rugby, unless you've broke something important or are concussed or something, you get the hell back up and keep playing straight away with, at most, a little medical attention.

you start bleeding in American Football you get medical help on the sidelines for a while.
you start bleeding in Rugby you get some tape around your head and get back in the game.

American Footballers are tough.
Rugby players are tougher.

[Goldie79]

Soccer is a game American children play when their parents are afraid to let them play proper Football.

Soccer (or real football) is the most popular game on earth. Simple as that.
Soccer may not be the national game in the states (behind American football, Baseball, Basketball) ... but those 3 sports are not so big outside of America.

Real football is you know, using your feet... not carrying a ball in your arms

[Shockage]

American Footballers are so tough, they take the law, their lives and other people's lives into their own hands, OJ Simpson, Michael Vick, Junior Seau, Dave Duerson, Jovan Belcher. Oh and don't forget College Football Coach Joe Paterno who let members of his football team get sexually assaulted. So CT Baker has a point about American Football players being 'tough' *happy smirk*

[Darth Shizzel]

Ok now your pushing it shock were talking about on the field stuff not off field.

[Shockage]

Seau, Deurson and Belcher's deaths were a result of too many hits to the head during the games.