Rugby vs. American football

**monaroCountry** · 03-24-2009, 05:26 PM

Originally Posted by Mr. E

I highly doubt that. Have you seen any American football players? I think they'd be just fine.

I have to agree with wolf. At the lower end of the hardcore scale, weak and tiny rugby players are more hardcore than weak and tiny NFL players, but the NFL monsters could hang with the rugby monsters just fine.

We are not comparing soccer to football here but the more brutal game of rugby (league and union) to the game of football. Your big monsters wouldnt last more than 5 minutes in a rugby game. The amount of tackling and hit ups in rugby is far more than football, the amount of yards run and ball in play is many many many times more than American Football. I can tell you now, you wouldnt even bother looking at retaining any linesman in a game of rugby.

http://blog.wired.com/geekdad/2008/1...ch-action.html

* The first quarter, at the conclusion of the first fifteen minutes of the match, the ball had been in play for a total of three minutes and 10 seconds.
* The second quarter contained two minutes, 58 seconds when the ball was in play
* The third quarter was the most scintillating with three minutes, 25 seconds of action
* The fourth quarter, which included a lot of kneeling to run out the time in the final two minutes, had showcased two minutes and 35 seconds of play

So, during the two hours and 56 minutes the game took to complete, throughout the 60 minutes of regulation time, the ball was in only in play for 12 minutes and 8 seconds.The rest of the time, players were standing around, plays were being reviewed and I was being bombarded by a multitude of beer commercials and truck advertisements.

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**djwolford** · 03-24-2009, 05:39 PM

Originally Posted by monaroCountry

Strong first post, but a fail. You realize that the fridge would kill a rugby player the first time he made contact right? Not hurt, kill.

What you're failing to realize is just how athletic some of those "fat" guys are. For a lot of the people who do run a lot, their average practice is very endurance oriented. I doubt that many of them would have troubles playing a full game of rugby.