PROOF: Football Harder Than Rugby

[Jodell88]

Why you posting about soccer though? Everyone knows that sucks.

Because they think football is the only sport countries outside the US play.

Meanwhile, basketball is their version of football with all the flopping around.

 

[Dirigible]

Why you posting about soccer though? Everyone knows that sucks.

Soccer... rugby... It's hard to tell the loser sports apart. Just like I don't know the difference between kale and chard, I just know that my steak is superior.

 

[Dirigible]

Because they think football is the only sport countries outside the US play.

Meanwhile, basketball is their version of football with all the flopping around.

Pipe down and post more in the babe thread.

 

[AMDZen]

Why you posting about soccer though? Everyone knows that sucks.

Because you're in the UK, its obviously your favorite sport

 

[WelshBloke]

Soccer... rugby... It's hard to tell the loser sports apart. Just like I don't know the difference between kale and chard, I just know that my steak is superior.

Ahh, thats why you prefer american football. You're blind and brain damaged from all the grain alcohol and its a nice day out and a picnic for you. Fair enough. :whiste:

 

[WelshBloke]

Because you're in the UK, its obviously your favorite sport

Because Wales are famously good at football? What?

 

[Jodell88]

Because Wales are famously good at football? What?

Shhhhhh don't say anything.

 

[Dirigible]

Ahh, thats why you prefer american football. You're blind and brain damaged from all the grain alcohol and its a nice day out and a picnic for you. Fair enough. :whiste:

Finally we have reached agreement.






Wait... HEY!!!!!

 

[OILFIELDTRASH]

Cause we all know playing either pro football or rugby is easy.

 

[WelshBloke]

Finally we have reached agreement.






Wait... HEY!!!!!

Well everyone likes a picnic and too much grain alcohol. :thumbsup:

We'll worry about the brain damage when we run out of booze and worry about the blindness when we can't find the bottle. :biggrin:

 

[WelshBloke]

Cause we all know playing either pro football or rugby is easy.

Thats not the point of this thread. :twisted:

You're supposed to be randomly insulting people who like different things to you dammit.

 

[nephilim2k]

As a man who has played American Football as an Outside Linebacker (left side), and a man who has played Rugby a tighthead prop, I can assure you, Rugby is harder.

I have broken ribs, ruptured both kidneys (hence needing a transplant), bruised my liver, and fractured my collarbone in Rugby. After a good game, I would ache for a few days.

After a game of American Football, I could walk without pain, was barely winded, and hardly scratched.

And really? Do you see honestly see any NFL player having the slightest chance of going for the full eighty minutes? Without a breather after every tackle and without endless substitutions? These guys have spent a lifetime training for a sport played in 5 second bursts, and they are great for those five seconds. But cardio is not exactly high on their training priorities list.

And do you really see any NFL runner coping with an offense where there is no blocking and offloading during the tackle is utterly critical to run a successful offense. Bo Jackson might be great -- until he went down. Then it would be a turnover every time as he would have absolutely no offloading skills.

The fact of the matter is that both sports are so completely different -- and take a lifetime of training to compete at an elite level -- that each team would be utterly hopeless at the other sport. Forget the All-Blacks. Any fourth-level English semi-pro club would crush the Packers in a rugby match. As would any Division III NCAA college team crush the All-Blacks at American football should they find themselves on a gridiron pitch.

So my question is why compare rugby and gridiron? You might as well choose basketball and ice hockey. It makes as much sense.

If you were to have an intermediate sport, Australian rules Football is probably the best way to go, half rules of Rugby, half rules of NFL, the brutality of both sets of tackling.

 

[WelshBloke]

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The fact of the matter is that both sports are so completely different -- and take a lifetime of training to compete at an elite level -- that each team would be utterly hopeless at the other sport. Forget the All-Blacks. Any fourth-level English semi-pro club would crush the Packers in a rugby match. As would any Division III NCAA college team crush the All-Blacks at American football should they find themselves on a gridiron pitch.
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This is true. In the 70s or 80s (i forget when) a Welsh team did a swap with an American football team.

They both played each other at both sports. You can imagine the results, they both sucked at the others sports.

Although I think some of the rugby guys got offers as kickers in the American teams.

 

[BudAshes]

To be fair rugby players don't get paid millions so their incentive and competition isn't the same. If their were as many incentives to be great at rugby I'm sure the training would be just as difficult.

 

[WelshBloke]

To be fair rugby players don't get paid millions so their incentive and competition isn't the same. If their were as many incentives to be great at rugby I'm sure the training would be just as difficult.

I'm not sure thats a good argument. Soccer players probably get paid more than both but they suck.

 

[OILFIELDTRASH]

American football players might be the best athletes in the whole world. Id put them right up there with the best Olympic athletes. Can't say the same about rugby.

 

[WelshBloke]

American football players might be the best athletes in the whole world. Id put them right up there with the best Olympic athletes. Can't say the same about rugby.

Are we defining athletic as standing around slapping each other on the arse and watching the cheerleaders now?

 

[nephilim2k]

Lets put your average NFL player (or even your best) against Mo Farrah...3 mile run...who would win? Argument is invalid!

 

[OILFIELDTRASH]

After a game of American Football, I could walk without pain, was barely winded, and hardly scratched.

Calling absolute bs on this. Watch some video of some retired players that walk like 60 year old men in there forties. Hell after a hard basketball game I have trouble walking.

 

[Cerpin Taxt]

I think we can all at least agree that soccer is for girly boys.

 

[WelshBloke]

I think we can all at least agree that soccer is for girly boys.

I was hoping someone would chip in to support soccer.

 

[OILFIELDTRASH]

Lets put your average NFL player (or even your best) against Mo Farrah...3 mile run...who would win? Argument is invalid!

Just because they dont play non stop doesn't mean they dont have cardio. If you've actually ever done anything physical (doubtful considering what you've said so far) you should know an extreme weightlifting session with short breaks can be just as intense cardio wise as running miles at time.

 

[WelshBloke]

Just because they dont play non stop doesn't mean they dont have cardio. If you've actually ever done anything physical (doubtful considering what you've said so far) you should know an extreme weightlifting session with short breaks can be just as intense cardio wise as running miles at time.

Is that why they need a little rest after pushing each other round every 5 minutes?

 

[z1ggy]

Has any body here actually commented on the fact that if they have played both? Unless you have personal experience, you're just a sideline jockey.

Besides, the OP says HARDER, not "which athlete is tougher". Rugby is a more physically demanding sport, period.

 

[WelshBloke]

Has any body here actually commented on the fact that if they have played both? Unless you have personal experience, you're just a sideline jockey.

Besides, the OP says HARDER, not "which athlete is tougher". Rugby is a more physically demanding sport, period.

Yeah Nephilim2k did up there somewhere (*points up the page*).

I think the guy in the OP was more talking about learning the skills of a new, competitive professional sport that he hadn't played before rather than the physical side of it as I don't think he has played any games yet.