no worries bro just being a smartass
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Originally posted by Taluien
American Football is Rugby... for girls. There I said it, couldn't hold it any longer...
American football requires armor so people don't die on the field. That's not girlie.
American Football is Rugby... for girls. There I said it, couldn't hold it any longer...
American football requires armor so people don't die on the field. That's not girlie.
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Originally posted by ricksta1975
Is stopping in at AA4
Hopefully it will be a good ride!
Ugh.... Depends on yer definition of "good."
http://www.geocities.com/rbl100102/smokin_train.jpg
Is stopping in at AA4
Hopefully it will be a good ride!
Ugh.... Depends on yer definition of "good."
http://www.geocities.com/rbl100102/smokin_train.jpg
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Originally posted by magicalmrrich
Oh god, not this debate.
I was a pretty good rugby player if I do say so myself and I'm hoping I'm not done yet as I still want to go back and play...
Now I've never played football, but the games aren't that comparable in my opinion. The types of play, the hits, everything is very different.
Football for me is like a tactical missile war. You've got troops on the ground preparing stuff, then the big strikes come down and people get fucked up in a major way.
Rugby is like World War One, you dig in and fight in the trenches for what seems like an eternity, taking whatever the game gives you and not fucking it up.
There are a few things which are comparable, but on the whole they can't be so stop the pointless debate.
The only thing I wish Football players would do more is learn to properly wrap up tackle, wrapping arms round the legs and sliding down, the amount of missed tackles unnecessarily I see is horrible.
But then again, I've never worn pads and I'm not sure how easy it is to do that in pads.
I played both for many years (as Rich knows, although he did play rugby at a MUCH higher level then I ever did), both are damn tough games and require mainly different skills. As I played rugby first, tackling really isn't that hard in pads, the teams just don't learn how to do it correctly. The Cowboys brought in some England rugby coached one year (2005 I think) to teach them how to tackle properly. Other teams have done the same since.
Oh god, not this debate.
I was a pretty good rugby player if I do say so myself and I'm hoping I'm not done yet as I still want to go back and play...
Now I've never played football, but the games aren't that comparable in my opinion. The types of play, the hits, everything is very different.
Football for me is like a tactical missile war. You've got troops on the ground preparing stuff, then the big strikes come down and people get fucked up in a major way.
Rugby is like World War One, you dig in and fight in the trenches for what seems like an eternity, taking whatever the game gives you and not fucking it up.
There are a few things which are comparable, but on the whole they can't be so stop the pointless debate.
The only thing I wish Football players would do more is learn to properly wrap up tackle, wrapping arms round the legs and sliding down, the amount of missed tackles unnecessarily I see is horrible.
But then again, I've never worn pads and I'm not sure how easy it is to do that in pads.
I played both for many years (as Rich knows, although he did play rugby at a MUCH higher level then I ever did), both are damn tough games and require mainly different skills. As I played rugby first, tackling really isn't that hard in pads, the teams just don't learn how to do it correctly. The Cowboys brought in some England rugby coached one year (2005 I think) to teach them how to tackle properly. Other teams have done the same since.
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Most football players know how to tackle, they just try to get a big hit on the other player or don't want get crushed by a guy who outweighs them by 50 lbs so they chop tackle at the legs but not wrapping up.
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