Both are tough team sports with a funny shaped ball.Both sports are played by blokes that look like brick shithouses.Some are fat others lean and mean.
The hits are harder in American football but they are like robcop’s with all the protective gear on.Its also very stop start with burst of action.
In rugby they are more carfull when they tackle coz if they dont they could break there necks.They have no protective gear apart from gumshealeds and in a few cases scrum caps.
I have played both (if you mean Rugby Union)… poorly
American Football does have bigger single hits, but Rugby is more physically demanding, and takes a lot more out of you. To start of with there is no scrummaging, rucking or mauling in American Football. But I suppose there are less legal cheap shots in Rugby…
I would argue with you but I have no idea what “rucking” is and I don’t know how you mean “mauling”…in football we don’t (usually) bite people like dogs or anything but it does get pretty bad sometimes.
Yes football has the better athletes (barring most linemen but look at yall’s fullbacks, about the same) and the bigger hits and therefore is harder to play because of such things. Rugby is to football what Cricket is to baseball…more boring and less skilled
Sorry mate…Amercian football has the better athletes? You are somking some pretty strong stuff. Rugby is a much more physically demanding game and you have to be much ‘fitter’ to play the game with any level of success.
I would say Rugby players are much more rounded athletes than American football players simply because the game is non stop physical exertion. American football relies on a bunch of fatass blockers (ala ‘the fridge’) and a guy who throws it to the one fit guy in the team (wide reciever) who then scores. Also its very start stop so no real sustained level of physical activity is required before the ref blows his whistle.
Rucking: When a player is tackled, and deemed to be on the floor, he must release the ball. But if he can turn his body to his own side, his team mates can run over him, and ‘clear’ the opposition, and a player can then come and pick the ball up and continue possesion. A player from opposing side must stay on his feet when a ruck is formed, and can only gain the ball himself, if comes from behind the foot of the furtest player directly behind the ball. If he fails to do this he is deemed offside and he is punished with a penalty.
Mauling: Is similar to rucking, but occurs when a player is tackled but stays on his feet. His team mates are entitled to push him forward by ‘binding’ on to him or a team mate, providing they ‘bind on’ by approaching the maul from the furthest player in a direct line with the ball. The opposition in turn is entitled to push the person with the ball, back by the same means.
yeah ive played both as well and would say Rugby is well the harder sport, American Football u don’t have to be that fit and the big hits don’t really hurt that much cause your padded from head to toe. when u get hit with a big tackle in Rugby it’s like taking a huge body shot its not good, both are good to watch though i find American Football a bit to stop/starty
I agree rugby is a more demanding game, but its atheletes aren’t as good… Money draws in the best athletes in the world. In football there are guys who are 230-250 pounds, and running faster than anyone in rugby and most of the soccer players out there. You should have seen Michael Vick’s agility test going into the nfl he has like 4.27 40 yard dash, 450 bench press, 650 squat… He is an amazing athelete. Also they do hit alot harder in football because the pads allow for it, and these guys are bigger, stronger, faster so they hit harder as physics would demand. Anyways people that aren’t linemen work their asses off in the off season, and I bet you Jerry Rice use to train harder than any Rugby player who’s ever played… hell even boxers don’t train anywhere near as hard as Jerry used to. He could run the 100 meter dash 5-6 times in consecutively. As for fatasses… there are some guys out there who are 300 pounds who run incredibly fast, its just they couldn’t play straight at that speed. However there is Jevon Kearse who when he entered the NFL he ran the 40 in 4.35 seconds and he was 6-5, 270. This draft I saw 7 cornerbacks in the top 20 running the 40 in 4.35 or less, and 35+inch veritcal jump… there is no comparison who has the better atheletes because the NFL has basically olympic level athletes, but these are guys who could go into the olympics in 4-5 events… and do well in every event.
You haven’t been hit hard in football… I’ve had days where my sides have been way more bruised than any boxing could ever make me. In college more people die from football than in boxing… granted alot of them are from dehydration, but alot of them are also guys who endure too many body hits because in no other sport do you get as much body punishment as in football(unless your a quaterback or running you usually don’t get any body protection).
they think we’re weird cos we call Petroilum in liquid form ‘Petrol’… they call their liquid fuel ‘gas’… Am I the only one who thinks thats a bit fucked up?
Because originally Football was more like rugby, and you could only kick the ball, and then it progressed into the current sport… The more confounding thing is why do we call soccer, soccer? Maybe football should be called soccer and soccer called football over here.
