Is American football even a real game?
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dbentley666 — 4 years ago(June 06, 2021 08:53 PM)
I don't know a damn thing about rugby except that it's good to watch and the men are clearly hard as nails. American football looks like a computer game where all the players are either Stallone or Jim Brown. I myself box, and that's the toughest sport ever. I rest my case.
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MONGY — 4 years ago(June 06, 2021 08:03 PM)
did american footie come before rugby? maybe rugby appropriated parts of football. and then rugby has almost no following here other than at prep schools and few universitys.
weird that almost no other country has any type of american style football.
in my opinion, rugby is much more demanding than football: little or no protective gear so the body's getting pummeled naturally. -
dbentley666 — 4 years ago(June 06, 2021 08:06 PM)
Exactly! Rugby is a genuinely high-risk game. Rugby-players laugh at American body-armour and shoulder pads. Almost the last person you want to get into a bar fight with is a rugby player. If he's SAS and plays rugby you should meekly let him insult your mother and buy him another round.
American football is said to have developed from rugby. British colonists from Canada are said to have brought rugby to the Americans. At that time the two were not as differentiated as now.
The origin of rugby in England goes back long into the 19th century and even earlier. In 1800's formalities were introduced to football rules in the seven major public schools of England.Handling the ball was permitted in football in the early 1800's when players were allowed to take a mark and then a free kick. The Rugby Football Union had been formed in 1871 by representatives of 21 clubs - all of which were located in southern England and most were within London. By the early 1890's rugby was widespread and well over half the RFU's clubs were in northern England. The working classes of the north of England and South Wales were particularly taken with rugby over football (soccer).