Gridiron/American Football vs Rugby

American "GridIron"

Rugby!!

PA should have their own Rugby team.

PROGMAN wrote: Rugby is a National Sport in Wales, and many others too!!

Edited by Cheesecakemouse - March 06 2007 at 18:07

Rugby much more enjoyable to watch and better rules. Also American football is clearly just a rip off of Rugby, plus they all wear body armour the pansies. Not like Rugby players!

I vote Rugby because its cooler. And pads in American Football aren't "body armor" they are useful to do some of the things like blocking but it hurts when doing that. From personal experience by the way. And when you hit somebody hard they hurt 10 times worse than you do. Pretty painful.

Rugby's a lot cooler in my eyes. English red-headed, hard-assed blokes with few or no  teeth at all left in their mouth, running through muddy wet fields with a look in their eyes as if they'll murder whoever's standing in their way compared to a bunch of fast-running, padded playboys backed up by their 200-kg friends running on some fresh, newly-cut grass with their mothers cheering at them....... We have a clear favorite!

(okay, maybe that was just a smidgeon exaggerated and filled with silly, surreal stereotypes of mine)

I don't think that American Football has really caught on overseas, huge in the USA but thats about it, while Rugby is spreading and has popularity in diverse places, eg Argentina, Romania, Sth Africa.

I'm an American, so football it is.  I don't even know the rules of rugby.

BTW, @ our Aussie members:  is there a difference between rugby and Australian rules football?  if so, what is it?

magnus wrote: Rugby's a lot cooler in my eyes. English red-headed, hard-assed blokes with few or no  teeth at all left in their mouth, running through muddy wet fields with a look in their eyes as if they'll murder whoever's standing in their way compared to a bunch of fast-running, padded playboys backed up by their 200-kg friends running on some fresh, newly-cut grass with their mothers cheering at them....... We have a clear favorite!

According to Wikipedia, there can be as many as 38 players on an AFL team, and:

"The (AFL) salary cap for the majority of clubs in 2006 is $6.47 million (AUD)."

There are individual NFL players making more than that in a year.

So if the Rugby boys are so tough, and football players are such pansies, why don't they try cutting it in American football?

Because, they can't

As for Rugby's popularity worldwide, well, it costs a lot more to field a football team with all the equipment and such, so it's not a fair comparison.

And for the record, I'm not American

moonlapse wrote: magnus wrote: Rugby's a lot cooler in my eyes. English red-headed, hard-assed blokes with few or no  teeth at all left in their mouth, running through muddy wet fields with a look in their eyes as if they'll murder whoever's standing in their way compared to a bunch of fast-running, padded playboys backed up by their 200-kg friends running on some fresh, newly-cut grass with their mothers cheering at them....... We have a clear favorite! According to Wikipedia, there can be as many as 38 players on an AFL team, and: "The (AFL) salary cap for the majority of clubs in 2006 is $6.47 million (AUD)." There are individual NFL players making more than that in a year. So if the Rugby boys are so tough, and football players are such pansies, why don't they try cutting it in American football? Because, they can't

Edited by Cheesecakemouse - March 15 2007 at 20:05