Apart from anything, it turns the hundreds of players in every team into faceless zombies. I believe the original distortion of the rules of rugby in the United States was largely due to some guy called Walter Camp who presumably was a lot more macho than his name.
Maybe even in the same class as the mighty New Zealand All Blacks, the most successful international team of all-time. You talk about your quarterbacks. Well, we have guys called outside-halves, who are the ultimate playmakers and in Dan Carter the Kiwis have as brilliant a player as the world has ever seen. He also kicks goals from degree angles, rather more subtle than your field-goal experts who merely have to boot them over from in front of the posts.
Anyway, you chose to create your own version of the game. How ridiculous can you get? OK, we did make a bit of a mess of things over here early last century when the political shambles over professionalism saw the game of rugby split into two codes. Interestingly enough, American football-dominated Texas is the third-largest rugby-playing area in the USA, after the north-east and California.
The UK is saturated with touch rugby classes for children as young as two-years-old. Who knows, maybe my sisters in America will enrol their children in touch rugby after reading this. Will Americans become full-fledged rugby devotees? Who knows. We tend to gravitate towards our own national sports instead of fully embracing non-American sports like cricket, football soccer , or rugby.
They only care about themselves. While I respect their opinions, I think it has more to do with those money-hungry corporations who control the media.
Not a lot of revenue can be made in a short rugby match compared with a three hour NFL game. Remember TV commercials bring in lots of dough for marketing. More Skilled — American football players only have one job to do on the field — except of course for the quarterback. Unlike football, the game of rugby has international appeal. Teams of different countries consider it a great honor to win international competitions like the World Cup and bring to their home.
Even within the United States, the rugby appeal is increasing day by day. On the other hand, the popularity of American football has remained confined to the United States only. A thing that is very unique to rugby is that they have a professional w omen's football league very similar to the men's league. Now, there are rugby leagues for women at all levels with even college rugby teams.
This trend of women's rugby is very much on the rise. There are even women's national teams in rugby. While the Am erican football is mostly viewed as a man's sport, and therefore there are very fewer opportunities for women in this sports. It was very good news for rugby fans around the world. When players take part in rugby matches, they lack any kind of hard protective equipment like padding and helmets.
This is the reason why rugby players learn how to tackle bearing their own safety in mind. In American football, players are allowed hard tackles. For this reason, they wear protective gear like padding and helmets. When compared with professional American football, rugby offers lower costs and a more flexible schedule. Another major difference between the two games is the way in which scoring works.
In rugby league games, a try is the word given to scoring. In American football, the equivalent is known as a touchdown. Interestingly, a try involves touching the ball down onto the ground, however a touchdown does not require this to happen. Rugby league, however, requires the ball to be pressed onto the ground within the goal area.
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