Football is already the dominant sport!!!!!!!

 

Guess which one I picked?

 

 

The one in which the chaps all wear suits of armour because they're afraid of getting hurt, I'd imagine.

 

 

 

 

 

 

That's so you don't get killed.Ever get hit by a few 250-300lb lineman and linebackers over and over and over again for an hour?

 

I played all the way from pee-wee leagues through high school and had multiple surgeries to repair a torn ACL,MCL and PCL and also had numerous broken fingers,hands,a wrist,an ankle and collarbone,I played through and with all my injuries except for the knee,which prevented me from ever playing again.Just think what it would have been like without padding?

yeah Rugby

 

Rugby is for regular team sports what prog epics are for mainstream rock... It really is much more difficult to get into, and you must need to know the rules wich are pretty complex. Maybe you should try the 7 players rugby, which is much more spectacular than normal rugby.

 

It just always amuses me when people think that just because football players are well protected that it isn't a brutal and painfully violent sport.If you haven't ever played the game don't knock that aspect of it.

 

 

Yep NZ and Sth Africa, and a top sport in Australia, England, France, Scotland, Ireland, Canada and many pacific nations, as well as an emerging sport in Italy. and is quite popular in Argentina.

 

Hey, rugby players are tough guys! Do you remember those guys whose plane crashed in the Andes and they went to the edge to survive? There's a movie about it. They were players from an Uruguayan rugby team.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uruguayan_Air_Force_Flight_571 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uruguayan_Air_Force_Flight_571

http://imdb.com/title/tt0106246/ - http://imdb.com/title/tt0106246/

 

Whatever

Anyway, I don't know how true this is, but someone once told me that roughly a hundred years ago a US rugby team played a NZ rugby team, NZ absolutely nailed them, so in embarrasment the Americans made up their own sport - American Football, so no tiny nation (ie NZ only had around a million people back then) can humiliate a superpower on the sports field. But again I cannot confirm this, but if its true then American Footballers can't cut it on the rugby field

 

 

I don't think they would have the stamina, and also a lot of them would fail drug tests as in the rest of the world, steroids are seen as a serious offence.

 

I always say if you want to know what it is like to to get hit in American FB is to run full speed afor about 15 feet into a wall.  Thats is why they make pads and helmets.  I don't see that speed in physical struggles in Rugby.

 

 

You are right Jim and there is a reason for it.  FB has set plays and you have 25 seconds from the time the play ends to the time the next one is run.  Signals are sent from the sidelines to the Quarterback who then relays the info to the rest of the team on the field.  The defense does likewise usually through the Middle Linebacker. There are set patterns for the team to line up at line of scrimmage (where the last play stopped).  The offense must line up 7 people on the line and 4 people behind it.  The defense can set anywhere they want. on their side of the line.  If the Quarterback sees the defense in a set that he thinks is not right for the play he will audible and change the play on the line before the 25 seconds expire. When the ball is snapped (passed from the Center to the QB)  the play begins.  The play continues until the ball carrier is tackled.  At that point the play stops where the ball is when the player is down and the pattern is repated.  Offense must get 10 yards in 4 plays or they turn the ball over to the other team.  So when you see the offense punt (a form of drop kick) it means they didn't get the 10 yeards and they kick it to establish field postion away from their goal

 

hope that helps.

now, would that be two tries, two penalties and a conversion, or, if Leicester Tigers have anything to do with it, 6 penalties??