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American Football V Rugby

Zjuggernaut

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American Football V Rugby

I'm English, so as you can guess.. It's obvious what I think is better. That's right! American Football! Didn't see that coming did you?

Yeah, anyway.

A lot of Die Hard Rugby fans say that American Football is for weaklings who have to wear pads. Not true.

A Rugby player tackles at around 1596 Lbs of force.
An American Footballer tackles at around 4807 Lbs of force.

So, do they wear pads because of the tackling or do they tackle because of the pads? What you must remember as well is that in Rugby you can't high tackle. As in American Football you can.

I would play American Football, but I wont watch it. It's boring. (We don't wear pads. It's for fun. I'm hard. GRRRRRR!!! :lol:)
I would watch Rugby, but I wouldn't play it. The rules confuse me.

What do you prefer?

Source:
Sports Science - American Football V Rugby
 
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american football. i don't like that you can't pass forward in rugby among other things... and i think that rugby should use pads because a common injury is losing an ear...i mean come on! helmets wouldn't hurt!! >.<
 
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^ Lol. Yeah, We have to do Rugby in P.E in school. It hurts. Since i'm tall-ish, people seem to avoid me in the game though ^_^.
 
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well, I honestly dont care for either, but I do agree that watching it on tv is painfully boring. but I would say that if I had to play one it would be american football. although my scranny size makes me a tackle target. why is it so funny to pick on the little guy?
 
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Zjuggernaut;287134 said:
I'm English, so as you can guess.. It's obvious what I think is better. That's right! American Football! Didn't see that coming did you?

Yeah, anyway.

A lot of Die Hard Rugby fans say that American Football is for weaklings who have to wear pads. Not true.

A Rugby player tackles at around 1596 Lbs of force.
An American Footballer tackles at around 4807 Lbs of force.

So, do they wear pads because of the tackling or do they tackle because of the pads? What you must remember as well is that in Rugby you can't high tackle. As in American Football you can.

I would play American Football, but I wont watch it. It's boring. (We don't wear pads. It's for fun. I'm hard. GRRRRRR!!! :lol:)
I would watch Rugby, but I wouldn't play it. The rules confuse me.

What do you prefer?

Source:
Sports Science - American Football V Rugby
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Rugby rules are easy. No forward passing, get the ball behind the goal posts and put it down.

Led;287136 said:
american football. i don't like that you can't pass forward in rugby among other things... and i think that rugby should use pads because a common injury is losing an ear...i mean come on! helmets wouldn't hurt!! >.<
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Ohh poor baby afraid of losing an ear? Real men don't even have ears! :devil:

Most of them tape their ears down anyway. And being able to forward pass in Gridiron is like cheating.
 
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A Rugby player tackles at around 1596 Lbs of force.
An American Footballer tackles at around 4807 Lbs of force.
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That was a seriously flawed test.

The players they used was basically a professional (football) vs amateur (rugby), the measuring device was different, the football player tackled a crash test dummy while the rugby player tackled each other, and as they say rugby tackles are more concentrated on a specific area and can more easily break bones.

Have a look at hard, full force tackles with plenty of shoulder charge without padding's and helmets in rugby league State of Origin, this match would make football players squeal with pain, fat football lineman would dies of a heart attack just by watching the fast paced game.
So, do they wear pads because of the tackling or do they tackle because of the pads? What you must remember as well is that in Rugby you can't high tackle. As in American Football you can.
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You also cant high tackle in football or grab the collar of grab the helmet down, football has allot more limitations with regards to tackles than rugby league. In American Football there is also allot more limitations on who you tackle i.e. when you can legally tackle the passer and the kicker.


Two dangerous areas that American football banned or discouraged because of injuries caused were infact rugby related, these were getting rid of the scrum and replacing it with the line of scrimmage and advocating the forward passing over backward passing.
 
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Neither could compete in the other's league. There are exceptions to this I'm sure but if you switched any player over to the other side they would be seriously hurting.
 
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Albion Knight;287220 said:
Neither could compete in the other's league. There are exceptions to this I'm sure but if you switched any player over to the other side they would be seriously hurting.
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Hey, it works with AFL though. We've sent a few AFL players over to the NFL. One even played in the Superbowl.
 
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I'd say Rugby personnally, i was kinda raised on it. I still don't quite understand American football yet!
Led;287136 said:
american football. i don't like that you can't pass forward in rugby among other things... and i think that rugby should use pads because a common injury is losing an ear...i mean come on! helmets wouldn't hurt!! >.<
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I'm not too keen of the fact that you can't use hands in soccer either, but hey, what ever. in actual fact, they don often lose ears, they more or less get what is called cauliflowers ears, where they cop so many hits they start to look like cauliflower from tissue damage.
Albion Knight;287220 said:
Neither could compete in the other's league. There are exceptions to this I'm sure but if you switched any player over to the other side they would be seriously hurting.
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As Arseface just mentioned, alot of NFL punters have originally come from Australia after retiring from the AFL to finish off their sporting careers. Maybe they'll introduce wheelchairs to the NFL next!!!:P

We've also had Rugby players move to Boxing
 
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I frankly don't care about this subject. i'm in france an don't undestand a bit about it. And i don't understand why people watch sports why sit around and get fatter instead of playing yourself?
 
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Archon'sRage;287550 said:
I frankly don't care about this subject. i'm in france an don't undestand a bit about it. And i don't understand why people watch sports why sit around and get fatter instead of playing yourself?
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because we're lazy and we want to pretend we're athletic for caring.
also, it's hard to get drunk while your playing any sport other than ones like golf and croquet. O.o
 
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