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Quote Originally Posted by Lyle
I would argue with you but I have no idea what "rucking" is and I don't know how you mean "mauling"....in football we don't (usually) bite people like dogs or anything but it does get pretty bad sometimes.

Yes football has the better athletes (barring most linemen but look at yall's fullbacks, about the same) and the bigger hits and therefore is harder to play because of such things. Rugby is to football what Cricket is to baseball...more boring and less skilled
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Sorry mate...Amercian football has the better athletes? You are somking some pretty strong stuff. Rugby is a much more physically demanding game and you have to be much 'fitter' to play the game with any level of success.

I would say Rugby players are much more rounded athletes than American football players simply because the game is non stop physical exertion. American football relies on a bunch of fatass blockers (ala 'the fridge') and a guy who throws it to the one fit guy in the team (wide reciever) who then scores. Also its very start stop so no real sustained level of physical activity is required before the ref blows his whistle.
I agree rugby is a more demanding game, but its atheletes aren't as good... Money draws in the best athletes in the world. In football there are guys who are 230-250 pounds, and running faster than anyone in rugby and most of the soccer players out there. You should have seen Michael Vick's agility test going into the nfl he has like 4.27 40 yard dash, 450 bench press, 650 squat... He is an amazing athelete. Also they do hit alot harder in football because the pads allow for it, and these guys are bigger, stronger, faster so they hit harder as physics would demand. Anyways people that aren't linemen work their asses off in the off season, and I bet you Jerry Rice use to train harder than any Rugby player who's ever played... hell even boxers don't train anywhere near as hard as Jerry used to. He could run the 100 meter dash 5-6 times in consecutively. As for fatasses... there are some guys out there who are 300 pounds who run incredibly fast, its just they couldn't play straight at that speed. However there is Jevon Kearse who when he entered the NFL he ran the 40 in 4.35 seconds and he was 6-5, 270. This draft I saw 7 cornerbacks in the top 20 running the 40 in 4.35 or less, and 35+inch veritcal jump... there is no comparison who has the better atheletes because the NFL has basically olympic level athletes, but these are guys who could go into the olympics in 4-5 events... and do well in every event.