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re: Amazingly, American Football is not in Europe... why?
Posted on 5/5/20 at 8:38 am to Brazos
Posted on 5/5/20 at 8:38 am to Brazos
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always get a good laugh when people say professional rugby is rougher than the NFL.
That’s interesting. Pro rugby players call us pussies for wearing pads and helmets.
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Posted on 5/5/20 at 9:41 am to NOSTRODAMUS
The atlhletes are superior in the NFL and the contact is way more extreme with pads. If these pro rugby players were equal or better they would be in the NFL .
Posted on 5/5/20 at 9:42 am to NOSTRODAMUS
Rugby doesn’t have the same impacts as American football does.
Only when they’re running free from a pass down the field do they ever gain enough momentum to generate a hit like one you’d take in American football and if you’re running free like that, chances are you’ve broken through the defense and no ones in front of you.
Scrums aren’t even comparable to OL/DL engagements. Football is just overall a much more violent sport. Rugby is just as as stop/start or even more so to a degree.
Only when they’re running free from a pass down the field do they ever gain enough momentum to generate a hit like one you’d take in American football and if you’re running free like that, chances are you’ve broken through the defense and no ones in front of you.
Scrums aren’t even comparable to OL/DL engagements. Football is just overall a much more violent sport. Rugby is just as as stop/start or even more so to a degree.
Posted on 5/5/20 at 11:37 am to NOSTRODAMUS
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That’s interesting. Pro rugby players call us pussies for wearing pads and helmets.
No they don't. It's pretty much only social side rugby players that say that kind of stuff. If professional football caliber athletes played rugby from a young age, the US would be a Tier 1 country. The hardest transition that football players have to playing rugby is how the game doesn't stop and knowing how to be in the right place at the right time.
When you see former football players playing rugby, you see them running all over the field and burning themselves out, while experienced players always seem to be a step ahead.
Posted on 5/5/20 at 11:16 pm to NOSTRODAMUS
quote:Until they suit up and play some organized football. Then they don't say that anymore.
That’s interesting. Pro rugby players call us pussies for wearing pads and helmets.
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