Are there any big differences between rugby and american football besides the use of equipment...

Are there any big differences between rugby and american football besides the use of equipment? Can a rugby player do well in the NFL or vice-versa?

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rugby player would have to learn plays but i'm sure it wouldn't be a terribly difficult transition physically

Football has much better athletes

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rugby players cant even catch a handegg

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I'm not sure if a Gridiron player has ever tried his hand at Rugby, but I remember that Aussie who came to the NFL and embarrassed himself almost immediately and was relegated to reserve squads before ragequtiing out of the sport altogether.

American football players wouldn't be able to play for 80 minutes where the only respite is a minute or two for a reset scrum or a video refereeing decision

Kneelegg players would all gas out and die after five minutes, oxygen would run out, game abandoned.

It would be an easier switch for rugby players physically, as on a base level they're running a constant series of plays but without a break in between or a switch in personnel

He would have been fine if given a chance. Also League isn't a real sport

I actually felt sorry for him, especially since he was a decent rugby player. But his whole NFL attempt was pure cringefuel.

well that's because
>Aussies

handegg players collide more violently and literally go in head first
perhaps a rugby player wouldn't be comfortable with tackling like that

There's a quote from some memegg player who tried it out, something like after ten minutes he'd never been so fucked in his life.

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Jarryd Haynes? Yikes was that an absolute shitshow of a career. Who the fuck memed him into starting an NFL career at fucking 27 years old? Though like both of you, I felt sad for him when i heard that he had been unceremoniously cut by the niners.

tbf, The fact that he was NRL player of the year twice, among other honors, left us all with rather high expectations if him.

>Are there any big differences between rugby and american football besides the use of equipment?
uh, most of the rules of the game/scoring

To actually make an NFL team without playing the sport at a college or even high school level is a good achievement IMO

essentially no crossover

Everything is different.

Few rugby players get to the NFL because it's a tightly controlled, and scripted game.

Just comparing the two sports, rugby is like disorganized bad ass guerilla fighters. Where as American football is like a highly trained and regimented navy seal unit performed with pin point precision.

Football will become more like rugby in the coming years.

Though there is that one Patriots player who also plays on the national Rugby team. That isn't saying much though, since our national rugby team is like 80th in the world

Any nfl running back, Defensive end, or wide receiver would absolutely dominate rugby. All the money is in the NFL hence why the best athletes play it. Its not a knock against rugby. All the rugby players at my college were guys who couldn't hack it on the football team. They are smaller, weaker, and slower.

>since our national rugby team is like 80th in the world

this could easily be overcome in 6 months.

i'm sure your college had a really competitive rugby team that could stack up against pros

I don't understand shit about it but wouldn't it be unwise to judge the level of athletes of rugby based on the rugby athletes of your nation which isn't very known for playing rugby?

Damn, we're shit lmao
30th place

Lel

What europoors don't get is nfl players train to run the 2 minute drill. Sure they sit around most of the game but the conditioning they go thru is for intense none stop action. I know this cause I played all the way thru highschool. Obviously nfl is more training but that even proves my point more. NFL is more a chess match with contact than anything.

>17th place

FUCKING HOW? We don't even play this goddamn sport and we're already in he global top 20? Who in this country actually and unironically plays rugby desu? Or does the rest of the world really give no shits about rugby?

They'd have a chance at being elite if they'd played since they were a kid and learned all the basic skills it requires. It's far from just pick up ball and run and try to tackle man with ball.

No doubt there are plenty of nfl players with the athletic ability required for rugby, but there's more to it than that.

This is about union anyway, rugby league would probably be easier.

Handegg players stop for a rest every ten seconds. They would be too unfit to play rugby.

No cause the best rugby player couldn't hack it in the NFL and a college that produces nfl players at a d1 school would certainly want the rugby players if they were any good. The rugby players all try walking on the football team. None of them can make it cause again they lack most of the physical attributes you need.

6'5 250lbs run a 4.5 40yd

Are you suggesting NFL players wouldn't train for the sport they play?

As with most 2nd tier rugby nations

>Kiwi Expats
>Saffer Expats
>College sprinters who couldn't make it
>More Expats

>6years
There you go

>we have a rugby team

But they run drills and practice everyday between games, you pinhead slope

What merifats don't seem to get is that most of the giants in the nfl would probably have to slim down and lose some of that power to be useful in a rugby game.

Nobody below the us on that table cares about rugby in a meaningful way. Quite a few above the us also don't really care.

>No cause the best rugby player couldn't hack it in the NFL

lmao

amfootball players are much more specialized, and they are much more focused on strenght, speed and explosiveness, while rugby players also need a good dose of endurance.

Most rugby players in America play football too. I was one. We play nfl in summer and fall and rugby in spring. Trust me the rugby players can't hack it. NFL recruits college basketball players to play. It's not a matter of time spent learning the game. Rugby players just aren't built like nfl players. Rugby is still fun. If rugby had more money involved then all the NFL players would play it. It's literally a money thing

Gridiron players can’t tackle properly and would be a liability if they played rugby at a high level

Wrong nfl players who are much bigger and faster already wouldnt have an issue out running a rugby field retard. Please show me some rugby players who are catching Julio Jones, Antonio brown, jj watt, cam Newton. You cant

To be fair there's a pretty big disparity between the top 8 (and sometimes Argentina) and the rest. You may be ranked 17th but you'd lose 99 times out of 100 against anyone in the top 8

Texas, i'm am just as shocked as you here about the existence of our respective rugby teams. I can safely bet that 99.99% of the people in this country have never played, watched, or even seen a rugby ball IRL yet somehow we are in the top 100, (let alone top 20)

what the actual fuck? Soccer is a sport we don't care about, Rugby is a sport we don't even know exists yet there are countries in this world that are worse than us at it? Literally who in the US plays rugby at any serious level?

The problem with this is that the rugby players in the us are a terrible standard. Yeah the d, e and below people who can't hack it at sports that are competitive in the states aren't amazing athletes big shocker.

lmao confirmed for not understanding what's required in rugby then

jj watt's no use if he doesn't understand how to ruck properly

Rupeni Caucaunibuca
Rieko Ioane
Bryan Habana
Anthony Watson

off the top of my head

They wouldn't need to catch someone who couldn't get past to begin with

Ameridonalds are fat and slow. Deal with it

and so do 100 and 200 m sprinters. They still would be shit at 800 or 5000 meters races.
A few handegg players could hack it in rugby, but that's just a statistical thing, and they would not necessarily have been good handegg players

as said, probably expats

but there are 15 nations tops that actually care about rugby, and that includes nations of about 50 people like fiji and tonga

Don't waste your time, you won't be able to explain, they live in a continent sized bubble.

I think it isn't that surprising because the US is the super power of the world. I imagine like if I invent a sport right now, you country will automatically have players out of thin air.

Probably couldn't see the ball out of his silly little poofta helmet.

because in the US pepole want to play handegg, and they'll fall back on rugby if they aren't good enough at their first choice.
In other nations rugby is the first choice. Except in nations where football(soccer) is the first choice.

Wow it's so hard to wrap someone up on a wrestling style tackle. You severely lack understanding of what world class athletes are. I played rugby and football. You act like it takes a genius to figure out how to tackle. I can do it, so can they. I'm also 5'7 185lbs. Please stop over glorifying your sport. Your best athletes don't match up even close to an nfl wide receiver. They would completely fuck up any rugby player

like 90% of international wingers in the last decade tbqh

maybe not in just a straight sprint, but certainly in pretty much every situation they'll be put in during a rugby match

whatever happened to Hayne anyway? all I remember is that the MUH RUGBY TRANSPLANT novelty wore off quickly here in the Bay Area and fans started getting mad everytime he played.

only the top 10 nations actually care about rugby. The rest are shit.

>I played X sport

Yank classic right here

i didn't mention anything about tackling m8

Hayne isn't a Rugby player. He plays the CFL equivalent of rugby.

kek

Yanks would at least be decent in the scrum

>Crouch
>Pause

Your niggers would forget what to do if they didn't have the coach explain it all to them, point for point, before every play.

Well considering we have a diverse spectrum of sports here id say we have a decent opinion over you buck toothed fucks who play 3 sports and cry cause American doesn't care about fag kick.

>Boreball
>Apehoop
>Handegg
>???

I'm laughing at you thinking playing a sport poorly with your fat pals lends any credence to your argument

I wonder why we don't play rugby more. From what I understood, it's continuous like football and you also don't need the expensive equipment.

> playing no sports with your fat pals gives you a better argument
Nice non logic Nigel

Too weak and ugly

Now imagine how hard I keked when I saw that FIFA world ranking list some user posted that put us in 27th place. divegrass is a sport that literally every third world shithole on the planet plays yet somehow, some fucking way the lackluster and reject filled US national team found it's way into the top 30. Considering that soccer is sport #5 here, how are we not in 190th - 200th place on that fucking list? We are literally far ahead of countries for whom it's their sole sport

Lol he unironically believes his own drivel.
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It's too hot north of porto alegre

You just won your first match on Euro soil, things are looking up, please just make sure everyone learns how to offload like an islander

B-b-but we have top MMA fighters.

You should just watch England - new Zealand video and reconsider. They are all roided honed monsters who have done this their whole lives. There are no fitter big men in the world. I don't even like the fucking game, but they really deserve respect, it's a war of attrition that will literally kill if not prepared for over many years.

You fund it the most out of any country in the world.

No hue wants to get btfo by ARG

>We are literally far ahead of countries for whom it's their sole sport
Can't even beat toblerone and tobasco

You spend billions of dollars in soccer.

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Start watching it and start posting in /rug/, we have a thriving Brazilian community

We must be getting btfo by them a lot because we are 30th in the world ranking lmao worse than namibia and kenya

>Can't even beat toblerone and tobasco

That's exactly my point. We shouldn't be able to beat goddamn Papua New Guinea and Tuvalu seeing how little cultural investment there is in soccer, yet whatever algorithm FIFA uses has us in 27th place.

FIFA rankings are a standing joke

Anecdotally speaking here. In my first year of uni I knew this guy, 6"3 big black guy Mikey. He was really fit and really ripped, like could run half marathons for fun. Anyway he was sound as fuck, he played for our OTC rugby team and the uni team. He also played for the American football team. He absolutely crushed everything in handegg. He was barely better than average in the Rugby teams.

You have a professional league, 330 million people and invest some of the highest amounts of money into it. You should be better than the 5th best team in your region.

I don't think you understand what's happening here.

Hint: foreigners are infinitely more concerned about how the USMNT performs that Americans are.

i'm gonna guess the standard for handegg in britain is much lower than in the us

As a point of reference these are the FIFA Rankings for Football. They are a joke.

>Are there any big differences between rugby and american football besides the use of equipment?
Yes. There are a lot of significant differences between the two sports. The rules are very different and this has a considerable impact on the rhythm of the game. Rugby has continuous action whereas American football is stop-start (9 minutes of action over 3 hours). American football is a far more explosive game whereas rugby is more reliant on stamina.

I'm sure certain NFL running backs and wide receivers would do brilliantly at rugby with some retraining. Your average NFL offensive/defensive lineman probably wouldn't do so well.

>You have a professional league
M - L - fucking - S
>330 million people
none of whom have any deep cultural attachment to soccer
>invest some of the highest amounts of money into it.
Not sure if you understand enough about sport finances to relativize this amount w.r.t. the American economy.

>You should be better than the 5th best team in your region.
who exactly should? A team of half-interested mediocre players or a generally soccer-agnostic public?

france should be #1

There's like 3 countries that care about rugby

Precisely, I imagine the inverse is true in the states.

Also handegg appears to be a highly specialised sport where the athletes are of a very high quality, but have a very narrow application. Whereas Rugby players appear to be more versatile (yet are obviously specialised due to position but to a lesser degree).

If you pitted rugby players against handegg players in a number of tests. The handeggers would probably win on things like bench and sprints but in a completely random game, say tennis or a team v team scenario such as football I'd back the rugby lads.

>makes another thread about how they should host a tourney for non wc teams
youtube.com/watch?v=2uEpcfonkt4
>marching the street chanting for your team
>full stadiums
>full bars for any wc match
>w-we d-dont CARE AT ALL!!!!!

You found a few different ways to say 'we dun care' in this post, well done. But the fact is your population and money is enough to get you to about 50th, which is your realistic ranking in association football right now.

I believe that you guys don't care that much about football but it seems to me that you guys exaggerate too much about how much you don't care. I keep seeing American flags in football threads. Discussing players and there were a lot of articles and videos of your media hyping Pulisic.
Also... who is watching MLS? It can't be Europeans or South Americans, that's for sure.