Rugby Player (Australian) watches Fournette LSU Highlights

God, I miss fournette already.

I feel we didn't appreciate his ridiculous talent enough.

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Made me wonder if any American football guys ever transfer to rugby. Big $ there too.

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I played football and basketball in high school and basketball and rugby in college before transferring to LSU.

I wasn't a good enough football player to get any offers, but I was easily the best rugby player on my team and probably better than anyone on any of teams we played.

I did mature physically between HS graduation and college, but yeah, football players can light it up on the rugby pitch.

ETA: There's money in rugby? shite, wish I'd known that 18 years ago...

You can make a good living but there’s no serious money in Australian rugby like other professional. The very elite probably make $1 mil usd per year with the average salary probably around 300k.

I think Maurice Clarett played rugby after his football days were over but not sure what league or if he made any real money

I always wondered why the US national team doesn’t recruit fringe NFL guys to play rugby.

Like a guy that gets cut after a year or two from the NFL, would still be a better athlete than the average rugby player.

Thread hijack, but the South Pacific loves American football. Not like rugby, obviously, but they enjoy it. I lived in the SP and played quite a bit of rugby. It is like pickup basketball in the hood here. If you bring a ball to a patch of grass, people join in and within a few minutes you’ll have a full-on game of touch going. I’ve played with kids in villages with coconuts (work really well) and plastic soda bottles (does not work so well).

In Suva (the capital) on the fair grounds, a few buddies and I were playing rugby and the newly formed Fijian national (American) football team was practicing and approached us about scrimmaging them in a game of tackle. Apparently there was a league forming among some of the SP countries. We obliged them and ended up beating them 7-0. We didn’t really have a QB, so it looked like 1940’s football, but a load of fun with some really cool guys. Luckily they didn’t know what they were doing.

You know we have reached the dog days of summer when we are watching highlights of a dude watching highlights

Dude thinks the "L" hand sign is for Leonard.

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And to speak to the talent difference, a few year ago the 49ers signed the BEST Rugby League player in the world from Australia, Jarred Hayne. He lasted 1/2 of a season in the NFL and was only used on special teams before being cut.

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It’s a different sport. How many people in the world can try a new sport at the highest level and make a team? He was probably very talented so they overlooked his lack of experience and took a shot. The most physically gifted collegiate wrestler could not box at the highest level for 10 minutes in the gym, much less 6 months.

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