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Hello, I am new to this website. I say hello and greetings to all.This particular subject will be about the sport of football.Whatever it is you want to say about football please say it here. As you might know my favorite team is the New England Patriots
I never knew why they called it American Football when there is hardly any contact with the foot in the sport. When "True" football, what the Americans call Soccer, deserves that name everywhere. I think they should have called it American Rugby instead of football, since the English invented Football, it should stay football everywhere... but to be honest I'm don't really care.
Okay that's my rant about American Football. Carry on.
Okay that's my rant about American Football. Carry on.
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Damn straight. It'd be a much better game if they didn't wear all that padding.Ghost_Rider wrote:That's right, Rugby is a warrior's sport. North American football is a wannabe-warrior's sport. Want to be tough, but a little bit scared, so have to put on tons of padding so they don't get a little bruised here and there.Klytos wrote:American Football, it's just Rugby with padding. The sissy's.
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As one who has played both rugby (college intramural team) and American football (high school), I can say that the padding is definitely necessary for American football. The nature of the hitting in the two sports is not the same at all. Not once while playing rugby was I ever hit by a 250 lb. linebacker (who was all muscle) running at full speed (113 kg guy for all you metric users). The hitting in rugby is from a much closer distance, with much less momentum behind the players when they're doing the hitting. And not once while playing rugby was I running across the middle and jumping in the air to catch a pass and then getting hit by a 225 lb. (102 kg) safety at an even faster speed and the first thing to hit the ground was the back of my head.
I'm not putting rugby down... it's a really tough sport, and takes a tough person to play. But to call American football players sissies because they wear pads is showing a real lack of understanding of the nature of the game.
I'm not putting rugby down... it's a really tough sport, and takes a tough person to play. But to call American football players sissies because they wear pads is showing a real lack of understanding of the nature of the game.
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I am sure in top level rugby the hits are as big as AF although maybe not as many per game. It depends where you played your rugby in America most of the really talented sports people are far more likely to play AF then rugby so of course the tackles are bigger in AF as it has the better players. Also in general the standard of US rugby is very poor compared to the major Rugby nations. Just like the standard of AF in New Zealand is very poor compared to America, if you were to play both AF and Rugby over here you would get the complete opposite reaction and say that Rugby has much bigger hits, which doesn't actually mean it does it just mean the standard of AF here is poor so cannot be compared. [/quote]As one who has played both rugby (college intramural team) and American football (high school), I can say that the padding is definitely necessary for American football. The nature of the hitting in the two sports is not the same at all
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I have a very good knowledge of your American Football, I watch it all the time on cable television over here. I just honestly don't see that much difference in the hits on each other except that gridiron sissy's wear padding. And let's not forget that there's pretty much two teams playing half the time (offense and defense) compared with League / Rugby where the players are on the field for most of the match.Not once while playing rugby was I ever hit by a 250 lb. linebacker (who was all muscle) running at full speed (113 kg guy for all you metric users). The hitting in rugby is from a much closer distance, with much less momentum behind the players when they're doing the hitting. And not once while playing rugby was I running across the middle and jumping in the air to catch a pass and then getting hit by a 225 lb. (102 kg) safety at an even faster speed and the first thing to hit the ground was the back of my head.
And the Rugby player is not always hitting from a much closer distance. As the rules of the game make passing the ball backwards mandatory, as you know, there's usually good distance between the players before the tackle.
As for being tackled in the air, thats just bloody stupid.
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Haha... agreed. But, it is a part of the game, perfectly legal as long as the receiver has already touched the ball, and happens all the time. Quite painful, especially when the ground you're hitting is frozen. Been there, done that.Klytos wrote:As for being tackled in the air, thats just bloody stupid.
And Rugged has a decent point that around here, the more talented athletes are playing football or basketball or something, rather than rugby, so the quality of the rugby games I've played is probably quite diminished.
We could argue all day about which is better and which is tougher and never get anywhere, because none of us will ever change his or her mind. I think the you hit it though, when you mentioned the number of hits per game. I took a few rough hits every now and then playing rugby, but playing football, for most of the players, it's every play of every game, you're getting hit.
Quarterbacks and wide receivers and cornerbacks are some of the exceptions, but all of the linemen, all of the linebackers and all of the runningbacks and the tight ends get hit every down, which is usually over 100 times per game, depending on the pace. Without the padding, those guys would never survive the pounding they have to take.
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Hey!
Yeah, yeah football! It's nice but hey! Giovanni! Nice to see my best friend has come to talk here! I think you all rememer Giovanni?
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