Minnesota Vikings - Don't yopu think american football is a bit of a sissy sport compared to rugby?

Don't yopu think american football is a bit of a sissy sport compared to rugby?

Correct me if i am wrong but the only differences between rugby and american football is that in rugby anyone can score a point and that rugby players where less protection. Ain't it a bit sisy to have so much protection when in Rugby they only have gum shields, a cup and shin pads?

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yes and your vagina hurts
No No
Yea totally ,rugby is more brutal and they dont wear any pads .
Yes, yes, finally someone shares my forbidden opinion! Rugby is far more brutal and more dependent on strength over speed than American football.
Definately! All american sports are gay! Basketball = Netball for men. Baseball = rounders, which is a girls game full stop.
ya, considering in rugby u cant tackle above the waist, and football is more strategy
sure man sure. NO, its different, the rules are a lot different.
ive never played rugby but if you wanna see some really sissy sports look at golf and baseball
Once again the Americans prove that they would rather rely on technology than developing their own physical ability's. How about a game between a rugby team and an american football team? (with averaged out rules and protection)
u ever played football you stupid brit?!?
Perhaps you can explain why a couple rugby "stars" that tried out for the "sissy" portion of American football (NFL Europe) couldnt make it? I am not going to bash rugby because I understand that it is a tough sport and I respect that these guys take a beating but just because you dont understand (or just arent "tough enough") American football doesnt make it sissy....otherwise rugby players would drop their sport and come in droves to capitalize on the big paychecks American football players earn. Two completely different sports, the rugby guys would crush the American guys in rugby and the American guys would hand the rugby guys an equally brutal beating in American football. I would suggest you try American football sometime....if you are man enough to handle the beating you will get! I have tried rugby (hence the respect but clearly no tougher physically in my mind).
Why all the bashing of American sports? Any time, any place.
Bear in mind you can get serious injuries in both sports so I don't think either sport is 'sissy'
The more protection an athlete wears the more physical the sport is. Is a rugby player more likely to lead with his head than an american football player? Probably not! Go rent any video put out by NFL films and you will hear how rough american football is. European rugby is a violent sport, and you have to be physically tough to play it, but american football is something else. They wear so much protection because it is extremely physical. I've heard this argument for many years. If rugby players used more protective equipment the sport would be much more physical. Why argue about which is tougher? In my opinion, it takes a huge set of marbles to play either one of them! They are BOTH tough!
thats because rugby players don't give a shit if they can walk when they get older. We wear pads so that we can actually last longer and our hits can be more explosive... and rugby is just run the ball down the field get hit and start a scrum... where football is more tactical and you need to actually think about what to do
Actually, I will have to say your wrong. Many of the tackles in American Football are penalties in Rugby. Many Rugby players consider the tackling in American football to be careless and reckless. So regarding protective pads, it is a must considering how it is much more physical than Rugby. I am not saying that Rugby isn't rough, it is just a different physical game. Although American Football did stem from Rugby at some point over a century ago, the two sports are definitely different in the way it is played. There is no reason to even compare the 2. That is like trying to compare Cricket to Baseball. Similar but different. Thumbs up to those who agree.
What American football player wears a cup or shin pads? Wus.
we hit harder than rugby players..and plus we are stronger and faster.. theres a reason why we have pads because we can cause career injurys or maybe even death(try going heads up with Ray Lewis with nothing on..or back then taking a hit from one of the hardest hitting saftey Sean Taylor R.I.Pwouldv knocked alot of rugby players into a coma
It's not so much the 'toughness' or otherwise that concerns me - they are both hard physically, and I don't know enough to comment on the relative degree. What concerns me is entertainment. I simply find American football dull. It seems to be concerned ONLY about winning. Of course winning is important, but I want to leave a game satisfied that a good game was played, the best team won and I was ENTERTAINED. To kick, throw or otherwise move the ball then stop for minutes at a time to discuss what to do next? To have, in effect, two different teams on each side? To tackle anything that moves, even if it doesn't advance the state of play? I want to see skill, fluidity, movement and the ability to think on your feet, not something that that resembles lower league Rugby but with tea-breaks. While wearing a shed. In the end, we like what we like and there's nothing the matter with that, but please don't argue the merits or otherwise based on how much 'brute force and ignorance' is required to play either of them well. To both sides of this particular divide: enjoy what does it for you and respect the what doesn't do it for you - even if the other lot are talking out of their most fundamental orifice.
No I do not. That protection is saving lives and it will probably come to rugby too in the not too distant future. On a more positive note, Rugby is a good game brother. Read the story of Mike Webster in Wikipedia, and you will change your mind about the protection. Just type in "Mike Webster" and read the article.
No. The NFL has to wear that much protection because the players are alot stronger, faster and hit harder than rugby players. I would love to see a rugby player take a hit from Ray Lewis or Demarcus Ware or any NFL player wearing what they wear on their head. They wouldn't last a minute. In the NFL they wear alot of pads and a helmet and they still get hurt sometimes paralyzed, when was the last time someone got hurt that bad in rugby. American football is the toughest team sport on the planet. If anything I would say rugby players are sissy because the don't hit hard enough to have to wear all that protection. Comparing Football to Rugby is like comparing golf to putt-putt or tennis to ping pong or french kissing to hardcore porn.
Maybe we should have a game between and NFL team and a rugby team..... just to see how things go ....
But American football players are stronger and more athletic than rugby players.
Sissy? No, I think it's about being smart, and being complete dumbasses. Rugby players have a much higher change of getting a life-threatining injury. There's nothing sissy about not wanting to die.
First off the Rugby players don't go all out on the hitting cause they would get injured. Football players do. Rugby players are not as big or strong as the NFL players. Can you spell?
Try gettin hit by a big ass linebacker while you are trying to pass a football. If you can get up I will say rugby?
I've played all three at one time, high school, college, or club. All three are fun and no place for sissies which none of you who are tough guy "haters" would know about since none of you tough guy "haters" ever played a sport.
I play for an american football team in england and i think they are both equally rough but for different reasons. Rugby needs a lot more stamina, football needs a lot more technique, they both require about the same amount of strength depending on positions. I have seen the biggest hits of each sport and think that football has the much bigger. In football you can hit nearly anyone off the ball above the waist with no arms, but rugby you cant.
Richie line up against James Harrison or Albert Haynesworth for starters and ask them that question.
Can see how people think that but until you watch a game properly, people dont understand some of the hits they take. It would be too dangerous not to wear pads. After all, the big hits is what people seem to really enjoy!
we play rugby in girls gym at school over here.. sorry.