Rugby On Nbc
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Rugby? The sport American football evolved from.
Soccer, Futball, Fusball, Futsal, Foosball, Europe ... Mods are all gay. -
Rugby 7's is the equivalent to Arena Football for American Football, nobody really cares about it apart from maybe a day out when there is nothing else to do, or your town/city doesnt have any other sports teams to watch. Proper 15-a-side Rugby is a very competitive and aggressive sport which can be a very exciting game to watch win plenty of big hits and fast runners. But I will agree with you on what you have had to put up with watching on tv 2day, that is not a very good advert for the full Rugby game at all.
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I'm jonesin' hard for some football. Counting on the Daytona 500, 2/28, to help with the withdrawl.
My son is on me to jump feet first into NASCAR Sprint Cup and get behind his favorite driver, Kyle Busch.
Ole girl Danica is lookin' sexy as hell.
I'd just as sooon watch a banana turn brown than tune into rugby.
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Played 4 years of rugby at John Carroll. Without a doubt the greatest sport in the world.
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A douce bag? Is that two douche bags?
A douce bag? Is that two douche bags?
Now that's funny
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Like I stated in another thread that I started: "A helpful Tip"- If you have an Xbox 360 you can download the FREE ESPN APP and watch college games from last season. It's a good way to get your football fix and to scout up the potential player that will be available in the Draft come April. I don't watch college during the season so this is perfect for me. If you've watched a bunch of college this last year there are probably still some games you haven't seen on there to enjoy... sure beats rugby...
I just started watching the Stanford games(there are about 7 of them) and when I'm done with those I'm moving on to get a better look at Vontaze Burfict with the Arizona Sun Devils. The when those are done I'm gonna get a closer look at Chase Minnifield.
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Rugby? The sport American football evolved from.
Rugby? The sport American football evolved from.
"Really, monkeys are dumb and throw poop? The animal humans evolved from"
Early man walked away as modern man took control. Their minds weren't all the same and to conquer was their goal. So He built his great empires and he slaughtered his own kind, and he died a confused man and killed himself in his own mind... -
@the-cysko-kid said:
I'm gonna play skyrim. When I'm bored with that maybe ill look into ESPN. Cool find.
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before you actually dog rugby, I suggest you play it and actually see much of a violent, vicious game it is. I've played rugby on and off, and the best way I can describe it is playing backyard tackle football with your friends only with more rules. I've played football and rugby for quite a while and without a doubt rugby is the more aggressive, tough nose sport. The hits are the exact same except no one is wearing pads. It's not even close, I respect rugby player toughness a hell of a lot more than football players.
I'm sure you'd call the sport gay to their faces right? Lol, I would pay to see that.
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They hug each other around the waist and have a gay six man waist holding wrestle off for the ball.
Early man walked away as modern man took control. Their minds weren't all the same and to conquer was their goal. So He built his great empires and he slaughtered his own kind, and he died a confused man and killed himself in his own mind... -
Rugby? The sport American football evolved from.
"Really, monkeys are dumb and throw poop? The animal humans evolved from"
"Really, monkeys are dumb and throw poop? The animal humans evolved from"
Obviously, Some of us are more evolved than others
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They hug each other around the waist and have a gay six man waist holding wrestle off for the ball.
They hug each other around the waist and have a gay six man waist holding wrestle off for the ball.
and offensive linemen often hold hands for blocks, butt slapping is common and fumbles entail loads of sweaty man jumping on top of each other scrounging for balls. Ignorance is bliss for you though my friend, it must suck living in a such a narrow minded world
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They hug each other around the waist and have a gay six man waist holding wrestle off for the ball.
They hug each other around the waist and have a gay six man waist holding wrestle off for the ball.
And....Because it's a sport not predominantly an American sport, you are a wrestling fan, got it.
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You guys crack me up.
Do any of you sports hounds know who is the defending Olympic rugby champion?
The United States.
No pads, no blocking and no time outs except for injury. 45 minute halves. Say hello to pain boys and girls.
I'd like to see a couple of you long-winded asses get out on the rugby field. That'd be hilarious. The funniest part is that you would LOVE the game.
It is like "smear the queer" or "fumble annie" with a couple of rules thrown in. Everyone can run the ball and everyone can tackle.
I played fly half and full back. No, I am not FB size for football, the fullback in rugby plays deep like free safety, has serious wheels, and also functions kinda like a punter when needed (although anyone can kick the ball in the air or on the ground at any time).
Ever have a runner come at you, pop kick it over your head or around you, and then fly by you to catch it or pick it up again and take off?
Rugby keeps you on your toes, plays can last for minutes. Football is a serious of small sprints. Rugby is an endurance contest.
Did I see a John Carrol post? We played you guys tough at Hiram in the 80s: Sevens in the Snow baby, you gotta love the cuts from the ice.
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You guys crack me up.
Do any of you sports hounds know who is the defending Olympic rugby champion?
The United States.
No pads, no blocking and no time outs except for injury. 45 minute halves. Say hello to pain boys and girls.
I'd like to see a couple of you long-winded asses get out on the rugby field. That'd be hilarious. The funniest part is that you would LOVE the game.
It is like "smear the queer" or "fumble annie" with a couple of rules thrown in. Everyone can run the ball and everyone can tackle.
I played fly half and full back. No, I am not FB size for football, the fullback in rugby plays deep like free safety, has serious wheels, and also functions kinda like a punter when needed (although anyone can kick the ball in the air or on the ground at any time).
Ever have a runner come at you, pop kick it over your head or around you, and then fly by you to catch it or pick it up again and take off?
Rugby keeps you on your toes, plays can last for minutes. Football is a serious of small sprints. Rugby is an endurance contest.
Did I see a John Carrol post? We played you guys tough at Hiram in the 80s: Sevens in the Snow baby, you gotta love the cuts from the ice.
c-dawg said:
You guys crack me up.
Do any of you sports hounds know who is the defending Olympic rugby champion?
The United States.
No pads, no blocking and no time outs except for injury. 45 minute halves. Say hello to pain boys and girls.
I'd like to see a couple of you long-winded asses get out on the rugby field. That'd be hilarious. The funniest part is that you would LOVE the game.
It is like "smear the queer" or "fumble annie" with a couple of rules thrown in. Everyone can run the ball and everyone can tackle.
I played fly half and full back. No, I am not FB size for football, the fullback in rugby plays deep like free safety, has serious wheels, and also functions kinda like a punter when needed (although anyone can kick the ball in the air or on the ground at any time).
Ever have a runner come at you, pop kick it over your head or around you, and then fly by you to catch it or pick it up again and take off?
Rugby keeps you on your toes, plays can last for minutes. Football is a serious of small sprints. Rugby is an endurance contest.
Did I see a John Carrol post? We played you guys tough at Hiram in the 80s: Sevens in the Snow baby, you gotta love the cuts from the ice.
The highlighted words are the key here from my view. If there is no blocking there is little if any contact except when making the actual tackle....which, correct me if I am wrong, is usually accomplished by grabbing the waist. I doubt that you see many Jack Tatum style tackles in Rugby.
Also, correct me if I am wrong, but there are no forward passes in rugby, are there? Only laterals? Thus, there is less open field tackling.
Yes, football evolved from Rugby, but with no blocking and no passing, it is obviously a different game. Yes, still, it is too rough for me to play. I only want to play contact sports between the sheets.
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Just a few examples of hits from Rugby, its a good game to watch, but just like Football it has its crap boring games to. And being from Scotland we have been as shit as the Browns for the last god knows how many years so nothing new there with my Sport team supporting
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Really, some of you really do show off your classless asses by being so freakin' Retarded with your baseless platitudes. I watched the Rugby this weekend that was on NBC and it was a great sport to watch. My guess is that some of you didn't "get it" meaning, you didn't take a few minutes to learn the rules, so you gave up on it, than immediately went on to here like some high schooler trying to build an army for your ineffectual argument and gang up on something you completely have no reason to make fun of because it's different and you don't know anything about it.
If you watched, you saw some great hits, some great stiff arms, and some great strategies in running the ball up field with weaves and overlaps. We say a kick off or a punt return is an exciting play in the NFL, well, guess what, that is basically what Rugby is. And there is blocking in the game. However it is a little different. Runners try and use their team mates as picks while they do block creating space and running lanes. It's not blocking in the NFL where you have 300 lbs men stand up and play sumo for a few seconds and then suck wind.
Rugby, Soccer, NFL Football, are all great sports. To bad not everyone has a great mind to understand everything and appreciate it.
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c-dawg said:
You guys crack me up.
Do any of you sports hounds know who is the defending Olympic rugby champion?
The United States.
No pads, no blocking and no time outs except for injury. 45 minute halves. Say hello to pain boys and girls.
I'd like to see a couple of you long-winded asses get out on the rugby field. That'd be hilarious. The funniest part is that you would LOVE the game.
It is like "smear the queer" or "fumble annie" with a couple of rules thrown in. Everyone can run the ball and everyone can tackle.
I played fly half and full back. No, I am not FB size for football, the fullback in rugby plays deep like free safety, has serious wheels, and also functions kinda like a punter when needed (although anyone can kick the ball in the air or on the ground at any time).
Ever have a runner come at you, pop kick it over your head or around you, and then fly by you to catch it or pick it up again and take off?
Rugby keeps you on your toes, plays can last for minutes. Football is a serious of small sprints. Rugby is an endurance contest.
Did I see a John Carrol post? We played you guys tough at Hiram in the 80s: Sevens in the Snow baby, you gotta love the cuts from the ice.
The highlighted words are the key here from my view. If there is no blocking there is little if any contact except when making the actual tackle....which, correct me if I am wrong, is usually accomplished by grabbing the waist. I doubt that you see many Jack Tatum style tackles in Rugby.
Also, correct me if I am wrong, but there are no forward passes in rugby, are there? Only laterals? Thus, there is less open field tackling.
Yes, football evolved from Rugby, but with no blocking and no passing, it is obviously a different game. Yes, still, it is too rough for me to play. I only want to play contact sports between the sheets.
The highlighted words are the key here from my view. If there is no blocking there is little if any contact except when making the actual tackle....which, correct me if I am wrong, is usually accomplished by grabbing the waist. I doubt that you see many Jack Tatum style tackles in Rugby.
Also, correct me if I am wrong, but there are no forward passes in rugby, are there? Only laterals? Thus, there is less open field tackling.
Yes, football evolved from Rugby, but with no blocking and no passing, it is obviously a different game. Yes, still, it is too rough for me to play. I only want to play contact sports between the sheets.
Thoughtful response Gips.
I will correct you as you request. With no blocking, more tacklers get access to hit you. Usually you line up across from someone and you either hit them or they hit you every set play (penalties, etc). What happens is that you lateral it right before you get hit, but you still get hit to try to take you out of rest of the play.
Waist tackling is common, sure, but devastating shoulder hits are also common. Keep in mind that it is more free-form and fluid than football with far less set offenses and defenses, so being in position to make that Tatum-like shoulder hit is less common. You rarely hit someone in the back, etc., you are face to face for most of it and folks are rarely defenseless.
Imagine this, you get tackled, and when you go down you MUST release the ball immediately (fumble) by rule. Another one of your guys picks it up, gets knocked down, releases it, now let's say the opposing team then grabs it, picks it up, you knock them down, then they release it, etc.
As the rest of the 30 players on the field join in you can have more devastating hits in a few seconds in rugby than in football and you just leave the devastated people ON THE FIELD until they either get up or a ref calls an injury time out. How about that? If you knock enough guys down hard and fast enough you can actually have a temporary advantage in numbers. Good reason to bring the lumber.
For the second item, more passes than laterals. I don't agree about less open field tackling. First off, a forward pass is a penalty, so none of those. Also, since there is no blocking, the field is always open. All passes are laterals but you can kick forward in the air or on the ground. The reason there isn't less open field tackling is the constant play with few stoppages, and the fact that everybody on the team is a potential running back and tackler. That is all there is Gips, tacklers and runners and a huge open field (with occasional strategic kicks)! There are so many more runs and tackles in a 90-minute rugby game than a football game that there is no comparison.
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Really, some of you really do show off your classless asses by being so freakin' Retarded with your baseless platitudes. I watched the Rugby this weekend that was on NBC and it was a great sport to watch. My guess is that some of you didn't "get it" meaning, you didn't take a few minutes to learn the rules, so you gave up on it, than immediately went on to here like some high schooler trying to build an army for your ineffectual argument and gang up on something you completely have no reason to make fun of because it's different and you don't know anything about it.
If you watched, you saw some great hits, some great stiff arms, and some great strategies in running the ball up field with weaves and overlaps. We say a kick off or a punt return is an exciting play in the NFL, well, guess what, that is basically what Rugby is. And there is blocking in the game. However it is a little different. Runners try and use their team mates as picks while they do block creating space and running lanes. It's not blocking in the NFL where you have 300 lbs men stand up and play sumo for a few seconds and then suck wind.
Rugby, Soccer, NFL Football, are all great sports. To bad not everyone has a great mind to understand everything and appreciate it.
And there is blocking in the game. However it is a little different. Runners try and use their team mates as picks while they do block creating space and running lanes. It's not blocking in the NFL where you have 300 lbs men stand up and play sumo for a few seconds and then suck wind.
Not exactly Kidd.
Blocking as we understand it in football is a penalty in rugby. That is, blocking by force.
Blocking by deception, passing (lateraling) the ball and misdirection, are what it is all about.
So, runners do use picks as you say, yet their fellow players are not blocking by force for them.
Everyone on offense is a potential running back; they keep their eyes on receiving a lateral, not on taking out an opposing player. Rugby is about possession; you can't hit anyone who does not have the ball.
Small, but important distinction. And I love your spirit!
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For the interested:
POSSESSION
Rugby is a game of possession, not yardage. Therefore coaching emphasizes passing the ball before being tackled as well as other skills aimed at keeping the ball in your teams possession, and not struggling ahead trying to gain a few more yards while the opponents entire team tries to drag you down.
NO BLOCKING
Most think a lack of blocking makes the game more dangerous, but the fact is it makes rugby safer because defenders are not being blind sided by some sprinting lineman hoping to open a hole in the defense (and in the defender!). In football space is created for a runner by brute force (blocking). In rugby space is created by guile and cunning (passing the ball and using misdirection). In Rugby, nearly all collisions between players is anticipated by both, and therefore better prepared for.
TACKLING
Tacklers must wrap their arms when tackling. No ‘rolling body block' type tackles aimed at an opponent's knees are allowed. Also, NO tackling is allowed above the shoulders. Also known as ‘high tackling', it is strictly forbidden and quickly penalized if it occurs. This not only makes for safer play but for surer tackling. Coaches teach not only how to tackle but how to be tackled (i.e. how to fall so that your team keeps possession of the ball).
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