June 16, 200718 yr Hey exactscience, you call american football girly, but I have actually heard that there are many more injuries in american football than in Rugby. I guess this is due to the fact that in Rugby there is no blocking and there are more tackling rules. I disagree that american football is "girly." Sure, there are pads. But then that just increases the amount of force people will put behind a tackle. In Rugby most of the tackles are more about technique and you can't tackle above the shoulders. In american football there is, of course, tackle technique, but brute force is very effective as well. So I disagree with it being, in any way, "girly." And Klink, if you are doing your job well on the play as a reciever then you WILL get the ball thrown to you, and if you are up in the air trying to catch it while a defender hits you with his whole force then you won't feel good anymore. and once again Ripper the reason that those hits look so bad its that they are on skates on ice. Not wearing cleats on turf.
June 16, 200718 yr Nascar.... TFD lol I don't get the point of Nascar. Curling's more exciting than Nascar And I wasn't suggesting Hockey is a good sport just because it's tough, it's because people were saying it wasn't very tough. Do football/baseball referees allow players to fight (until one falls ofcourse ) Yead I didn't think so
June 16, 200718 yr Hey exactscience, you call american football girly, but I have actually heard that there are many more injuries in american football than in Rugby. I guess this is due to the fact that in Rugby there is no blocking and there are more tackling rules. I disagree that american football is "girly." Sure, there are pads. But then that just increases the amount of force people will put behind a tackle. In Rugby most of the tackles are more about technique and you can't tackle above the shoulders. In american football there is, of course, tackle technique, but brute force is very effective as well. So I disagree with it being, in any way, "girly." And Klink, if you are doing your job well on the play as a reciever then you WILL get the ball thrown to you, and if you are up in the air trying to catch it while a defender hits you with his whole force then you won't feel good anymore. and once again Ripper the reason that those hits look so bad its that they are on skates on ice. Not wearing cleats on turf. id say both sports have their hits but rugby NO HELMETS the hits are different but they have nothing covering their head or face anyone that can take those hits with nothing on and come back for more is much tougher in my book and again why is best team sport to watch == toughest it seems like you guys would think that a team of 2v2 battle to the death would be the best to watch than
June 16, 200718 yr Im not saying that it is the best because it is the toughest, I was just comparing the toughnesses. Yeah in rugby they don't have helmets (some do, actually) but it is also illegal to tackle their head... I see your point, but once again the tackling is just different.
June 16, 200718 yr American football and rugby are equally tough? No one is going to win this argument... lol
June 16, 200718 yr Oh woops I'm not trying to prove that one is tougher than the other, I am just saying that American Football is NOT girly
June 16, 200718 yr illegal and what happens is totally different they arnt supose to hold in football either that doesnt mean it doesnt happen EVERY play http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tc0Ut5y-GRc id rather not get drilled into the ground on my head by some 250lb guy
June 17, 200718 yr KFA Allow to retort: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2W8qvH-LMg Used that one because it had the same song as yours I was trying to find this one hit that I saw this year. This guy was returning a punt and one of the guys pursuing him gets blindsided and just totally destroyed. It was the hardest hit that I have ever seen. The guy flew probably about 5 yards backwards in the air. A coach showed it to me at school and I don't know where he got it from. He had it on a cd. Basically just different tackling. I noticed that most of the hits in rugby are much better form tackles than in NFL. I guess that is because you have to pin in rugby but in football you just gotta knock em down.
June 17, 200718 yr i think my respect comes from the no pads if they had shoulder pads and helmets i would say they are equally tough but just different forms but in rugby theres tons of guys bleeding all over and they keep going didnt see any blood in your video theres the same hits of two people going oppisite directions at full tilt (probably the worst possible hit) would you rather do that with leg pads should pads and a helmet or none? there both tough guys but thats a whole nother thing to do that with nothing on
June 17, 200718 yr Blood you say? Dick Butkus once bit a guy's finger off during a game. I dont think there is a video of that though And Lawrence Taylor more or less destroyed people. This is nasty. The quarterback's name is Joe Theisman. This injury ended his career. If this doesn't make your leg hurt, then you have no empathy. http://youtube.com/watch?v=1i_bJv_0z-k
June 17, 200718 yr And Lawrence Taylor more or less destroyed people. This is nasty. The quarterback's name is Joe Theisman. This injury ended his career. If this doesn't make your leg hurt, then you have no empathy. i have an autographed Lawrence Taylor helmet in my room
June 17, 200718 yr ... Thats not cool... But I think I have you beat. Bill Belichick is a personal friend of mine I call him Uncle Bill.
June 17, 200718 yr ... Thats not cool... But I think I have you beat. Bill Belichick is a personal friend of mine I call him Uncle Bill. i know, i've heard the story at least 4 times
June 17, 200718 yr ahhaha... Yeah I am pretty proud of that What did you expect, for me to NOT say anything?
June 17, 200718 yr Author lol, this went from "which is your favorite" to "which is more tough"...Still can't believe the lack of interest in hockey.
June 17, 200718 yr lol, this went from "which is your favorite" to "which is more tough"...Still can't believe the lack of interest in hockey. generally its pretty boring its harder to watch because the puck is small and goes fast while there are certianly good games im not a fan of the sports that its easy to get in a scoring position (ie basketball, hockey ect) and with hockey its worse because its hard to score so theres no build up of action or anticipation of a score its just someone screwed up and they scored yay id rather watch a team go 100 yards you can see how they are doing on each play instead of one play determining a whole game
June 17, 200718 yr Author generally its pretty boring its harder to watch because the puck is small and goes fast while there are certianly good games im not a fan of the sports that its easy to get in a scoring position (ie basketball, hockey ect) and with hockey its worse because its hard to score so theres no build up of action or anticipation of a score its just someone screwed up and they scored yay id rather watch a team go 100 yards you can see how they are doing on each play instead of one play determining a whole game And similarly I can't stand watching sports where referee's have total control. Where one bad call can determine the game.
June 17, 200718 yr Yeah but that rarely happens now in football because there is replay reviews of plays now. Really the only thing they can do extremely wrong is make a bad penalty call, but that can actually happen not only in football but also in soccer and hockey as well. And basketball.
June 17, 200718 yr Author Yeah but that rarely happens now in football because there is replay reviews of plays now. Really the only thing they can do extremely wrong is make a bad penalty call, but that can actually happen not only in football but also in soccer and hockey as well. And basketball. But not everything is reviewable, not to mention that reviews slow down an already slow game(could you imagine baseball with replays? talk about boring). I also must saw that before anyone calls a sport boring they must go see it in person, ahhh Hockey in all its glory.
June 17, 200718 yr seen hockey in person as well as racing football baseball soccer basketball pretty much any pro sport is fun to go and watch (hockey included) except baseball god that is a boring sport you can watch the entire game cut down on sports center in 2mins and i know a no hitter is good but why would you want to watch that omg he didnt hit the ball again this is exciting? but ya hockey is just too much of nothing happening, going back and forth than 1 shot the game is over
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