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
I would say the "athletes" as you call them in American football are very one dimensional and have less skills as they are so specialist.

I cant imagine some of those line of scrimage blokes being much good anywhere eles on the field.In rugby you got to be able to do it all to a certain extent.