[quote]-ironman- wrote:
Eielson wrote:
Rational Gaze wrote:
bconngemini wrote:
I’m fairly sure 90% of NFL players would dominate rugby within 2 weeks of training. Rugby is a smaller version of football, the average rugby player is weak and puny compared to the 300lb monsters we have in the NFL.
Good day, sir.
Don’t get me wrong, I respect rugby players, but is this really your poster boy? That link says he benches 495 pounds, and squats 600. He is a beast, and if that were your average then that is great, but the NFL has plenty of people who can do that.
yes agree. But, from your own personal experience, if you wanted to bulk up massively, you would be doing little to no cardio? correct? rugby players have to do TONNES of cardio to be match fit. So they are never going to be as strong or muscular as nfl players, thats obvious. [/quote]
For emphasis cause people keep on turning my other posts into what they are not.
[quote]bconngemini wrote:
tom63 wrote:
Cockney Blue wrote:
bconngemini wrote:
Billy Whizz wrote:
'Cause Rugby is so fucking badass.
There is a reason America has won every war its been involved in, its because we watch masculine violent collision sports like football, not effeminate tennis and soccer and rugby.
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Uh…someone needs to go back and read a history book or two.
I find it hilarious how the OP says football is non stop excitement…when there’s a 20 second pause for every 5 seconds of play.
To ecoetter: The chinese sprinter comment is a good one, but I feel my comparison is still valid since the average body type in europe and oceania is one well suited to rugby/contact sport in general, whereas the average body type in china is not exactly an ideal “speed physique”.
Though I disagree that a comparison should be made - as aforementioned in my previous posts - but, for the sake of argument, how does your rugby locker room stack up?
-Eric [/quote]
Just for fun, I’ll throw out my highschool rugby team’s locker room for this.
Average height: probably about 5’10’‘- 6’
Avg weight: sub 200, our biggest guy was about 230.
(realize this is Canadian highschool sport, the talent pool isn’t quite what it is in the US)
Now for some other statistics:
Total points for and against for season: 600+ for, 3 against, in a season of about 8 games. I shit you not. I remember 3 separate games that ended 98-0 for us, and were scored on once (a lucky kick) before the provincial final game.
This is just to reinforce that it’s really not possible to make a comparison between the 2 sports, they’re very different. Rugby doesn’t have 300lb monsters because 300lb guys just aren’t all that good at rugby. Plenty of teams in the City had big guys, but they were pretty useless after the first quarter.
[quote]polo77j wrote:
Each time I read this thread I feel like this little kid; Each time I think the onslaught of idiocy from the OP is done, in comes another round…for shame[/quote]
And all the boys in the links can run & tackle all day long… without a break every 10 seconds.
And anyways Rugby League is like 10x harder phyiscally then Rugby Union, although the rah rah boys are bigger, their game is also more tactical and more of a team game, while League is just more physical.
Just ask any of the recent converts, SBW included.
No doubt that NFL players are monsters and its an amazing game. I dunno tho, i’m not in US and it’s still my fav thing in the world to watch, in fact i’ve grown to think every other sport sucks now. Nothing can compete with the action. Why no everyone agrees… i’ve often wondered also.
[quote]tom63 wrote:
Cockney Blue wrote:
bconngemini wrote:
Billy Whizz wrote:
'Cause Rugby is so fucking badass.
I’m fairly sure 90% of NFL players would dominate rugby within 2 weeks of training. Rugby is a smaller version of football, the average rugby player is weak and puny compared to the 300lb monsters we have in the NFL.
Show me an NFL player that can run for 80 minutes with very few breaks, take hits with no pads. Play offense and defence back to back. Run the plays on the fly without a playbook or anyone shouting the plays out and then we can have a conversation about this.
Nothing against NFL by the way, I love watching it. The reason that other countries don’t need US sports is because they already have the sports that US sports were based on. And they are able to play them against pretty much any country in the world.
Different game. I don’t give a crap about rugby. I like my violent collision sports.
The hits are no where near the same in football as rugby. guys don’t hit as hard in rugby. Football has much harder hits, because of the pads. They protect the hitter a lot more than the hittee.[/quote]
You also might want to mention that in football you’ll often have an entire line where the smallest guy is 6 foot 3 285 pounds - they tend to hit hard at that size. No comparrison to the little guys in rugby