Originally posted by phil3000What an embarrassment the blinkered snig gering of some parochial home-based fellow Brits is to those of us who have carved for ourselves a Renaissance Man life out here, autonomous upon the leading edge, looked up to for the irresistible applicability of our Britishness, imitated and analyzed, doted on and quoted on, as we walk the walk in this whopping wide wonderful walk-the-walker's world.
Are you a" stuffy little brit " FMF ? Maybe you are like some people that work in London for a month and come back with a cockney accent !! For your information Rugby is a mans game .
Originally posted by MelanerpesMuch like golf, I can't watch golf on TV
Clearly the sport is extremely popular in America among sports that people choose to play -- and it's one of the staples of fall sports at middle and high schools. Perhaps not as glamorous as that other sport called football, but still extremely popular.
The main issue in the US is that association football is a sport that people find much more fun to ...[text shortened]... ss the World Cup is being played) the sport lags far behind the major sports in the TV ratings.
Originally posted by phil3000Canada comes pretty close to the American game..... The games we play over seas seem to draw big crowds...?
Do you mean the US blows the rest of the world away at American football ?
Apart from the US ,who else plays American Football ? i wouldn't cross the road to watch any American games . American football is like a girls game of rugby !! Tights ,pads and helmets with grids on !! What are your players so scared about ? Basket ball, another girls game . Base ...[text shortened]... ions number one sport . Not even your hollywood can pinch this one and make out it's yours !!!
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Rugby vs. Football (summarized by extraction, see the link for explanations)
http://www.menshealth.co.uk/Fitness-&-muscle/Rugby-Vs-Football/v3
Rugby Vs Football
To keep fit should you play football or rugby? We find out
You want to lose your gut
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Winner: Football
You want to get fit
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Winner: Football
You want to build muscle
...
Winner: Rugby
You want to stay off the stretcher
Football: Injury rate per 1000 hours: 35.3. Your legs cop 77% of injuries, with 21% to the knee and 18% to the ankle. "Changing direction constantly strains your joints and ligaments, but you're far less likely to get injured," says Morgan. Try telling John Terry and Petr Cech.
Rugby: Injury rate per 1000 hours: 69. Officially the world's most dangerous team sport, with an average of 1.4 "serious" injuries per match (a quarter of them being to the head). Those tea-cosy helmets might look ridiculous. But so does sucking your meals through a straw.
Winner: Football
Originally posted by FMFTranslation,,
What an embarrassment the blinkered snig gering of some parochial home-based fellow Brits is to those of us who have carved for ourselves a Renaissance Man life out here, autonomous upon the leading edge, looked up to for the irresistible applicability of our Britishness, imitated and analyzed, doted on and quoted on, as we walk the walk in this whopping wide wonderful walk-the-walker's world.
http://www.training-conditioning.com/2008/07/11/rugby_injury_breakdown/index.php
All of this changed recently with the release of two major studies examining U.S. rugby injuries. So what did these new studies tell us? One of the first questions that comes to mind is just how dangerous is rugby? The good news is that U.S. youth rugby appears to be safer than international youth rugby. U.S. high school rugby injury rates are much lower than rugby injury rates in countries such as New Zealand and the United Kingdom. How do they compare to other U.S. sports? High school rugby injury rates among males are very similar to football injury rates. For girls, rugby injury rates are about twice as high as injury rates seen in soccer.
Originally posted by Hugh GlassThree downs and 15 yards ... so what, they throw it a lot of the time? But how does that work with a narrower pitch? I managed a Canadian pro side for a while but I never fully figured out what to do.
and filled with former US players who didn't make the cut here
Originally posted by zeeblebotTake the pads off football players then compare injuries.
Rugby vs. Football (summarized by extraction, see the link for explanations)
http://www.menshealth.co.uk/Fitness-&-muscle/Rugby-Vs-Football/v3
Rugby Vs Football
To keep fit should you play football or rugby? We find out
You want to lose your gut
...
Winner: Football
You want to get fit
...
Winner: Football
You want to build muscle
.. ...[text shortened]... might look ridiculous. But so does sucking your meals through a straw.
Winner: Football
Rugby players got to be tough to play without pads.
Football players would have to be bats*** insane to play without pads.
Originally posted by zeeblebotI never broke a bone in 19 years of rugby.
One of the first questions that comes to mind is just how dangerous is rugby? The good news is that U.S. youth rugby appears to be safer than international youth rugby. U.S. high school rugby injury rates are much lower than rugby injury rates in countries such as New Zealand and the United Kingdom. How do they compare to other U.S. sports? High school rug ...[text shortened]... ury rates. For girls, rugby injury rates are about twice as high as injury rates seen in soccer.