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Utah to get pro Rugby team

Marty McFly

Marty McFly

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Does anyone care? I may go catch a few games. Although the U has a good rugby program and I've never once gone, so who knows.
 
I'd be interested in going to watch a Rugby game. Could be fun. If it's the right price.
 
Rugby is what football should be. No hiding behind sissy pads and helmets. Just get in there get dirty and bloody and play the damn game. Once you go to a few games and learn the ins and outs of the game it is a blast and kind of addicting. Some of the hits those guys take are incredible and all without pads. Boom chaka-laka.

(I just always wanted to add "boom chaka-laka" to a post, it really has nothing to do with rugby =)
 
LogGrad98 said:
Rugby is what football should be. No hiding behind sissy pads and helmets. Just get in there get dirty and bloody and play the damn game. Once you go to a few games and learn the ins and outs of the game it is a blast and kind of addicting. Some of the hits those guys take are incredible and all without pads. Boom chaka-laka.

(I just always wanted to add "boom chaka-laka" to a post, it really has nothing to do with rugby =)
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In all the rugby I've ever seen, I've never seen a guy running 15 MPH in open field and throw 250 pounds into an unaware player's head. Football is just a different game. Rugby is about as violent as a competitive game of amateur tackle football in the mud. The logistics of the game don't make it as violent as Football.

And it's not about being a sissy, either. If you took a hit like they do in football without pads people would be constantly paralyzed and/or dead. But yeah, death and paralysis are for manly men. Lumberjacks holla back.
 
LogGrad98 said:
Kind of a fun read.

https://matadornetwork.com/sports/american-football-vs-rugby-which-is-tougher
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Indeed.

And I'm not saying that American Football is really better, they are just violent in different ways. You'll never see somebody totally unload on an unpadded man the way we see safeties and DBs totally unload on an unaware receiver or the way a blocker on a punt returner will blindside a coverage man. And yeah, I know there are still big hits in rugby, but they are still pretty damn different due to size and speed of the players, along with logistics of the game.

American Football is built for big hits, lots of open-field speed and a decent mixture of scrums and brute force with the finesse part of the game. Rugby is a lot more digging it out, scrumming and close-quarters battling than American Football. One game's rules call for pads to prevent major injuries and/or death while still suiting the speed and athleticism it promotes, and the other doesn't, necessarily.
 
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