what NFL team do you support

[ollielum]

Eagles!!

McNab the best

[massive-swell]

None, its just rugby for padded fairies

[fatboy145]

Big Rams fan since discovering the NFL existed in 1986.

[germ1984]

Giants since I visited NYC bout 3 years ago.

[ollielum]

None, its just rugby for padded fairies

You seriously have no idea about the game then you take on a NFL player i tell you . you would get wasted

[liambonner]

i dont like nfl. so i dont support any team

[Dextermon]

When I watched the last Superbowl which was on I was supporting the New England Patriots so I would have to say I support them.

[ollielum]

NE hate them xD

[Accident1100]

The Indianapolis Colts are the best NFL team

[Storky]

i would have to agree with the rugby and fairies comment to be honest

[Tomza]

i would have to agree with the rugby and fairies comment to be honest

lol same here sry to all NFL fans but its true :D

[Accident1100]

Why are people commenting in this thread if you have no instrest in the topic.

[clifford73]

Big Dolfan since 1984

[Nirvlime]

None, its just rugby for padded fairies

i would have to agree with the rugby and fairies comment to be honest

lol same here sry to all NFL fans but its true :D

If you don't follow the American Football that's fine, but you shouldn't make comments like that because it doesn't really make any sense.

American Football players are in tremendous shape. The only reason they have pads is because without them there'd be serious injury every play (by serious I mean death/paralysis). If you took any NFL team and gave them a little time to learn the rules of rugby they would completely demolish anyone put in front of them. There's such a difference in size - I remember the first time I watched rugby it looked like a bunch of crackheads running around with a ball.

I'm not knockin' on rugby - I'm just saying there's a big difference. A lot of my friends who were too small/weak/slow to play football effectively in college eventually tried out rugby instead.

[Nirvlime]

Oh, and I'm not a big fan of professional sports. but when I pull for a team it's usually the Dallas Cowboys.

[Tomza]

If you took any NFL team and gave them a little time to learn the rules of rugby they would completely demolish anyone put in front of them.

Ok sry but here comes a nice rant lol :D

Rugby is bar the far the more demanding sport and IMO and most of the worlds aswell a better sport overall. Heres why:

1. There are basicly no stoppages in Rugby unless the ball goes out of play, in football the game stops play every bloody minute and there is absolutly no flow to any match.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bL0lPCVR2No It lasted 10 seconds!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwDTIiGSEYs&feature=related Only a 1 second stop then play starts again!

2. Substitutions. In rugby, you are only allowed to sub out and back in ONCE. If you need to go out after that you can't play anymore.

3. Rugby players hit just as hard as NFL players, and don't wear the protection.

4. Rugby players wear metal cleats. I'm not too sure but i'm almost positive football players aren't allowed. Whether its for safety or for the maintenance of the fields. Either way, rugby players get raked where they get stomped in the face, or on the arm.

Rugby is a faster paced game. Period. That makes it more physically demanding, and IMO better. Not always better to watch as they don't have the end zone dances or the theatrics, but skill wise..

Also put the NZ all blacks up against any football team and they'll fun i fear (i'll give you the fact that the footie players are fast)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOWy1vHrpxo&feature=related

[Nirvlime]

Just because it's full contact like the NFL doesn't mean they hit just as hard. There's a big strength difference. Lacrosse is full contact too - and they get some good pops in - but I wouldn't say they hit as hard as athletes do in American Football either. It's just different kind of hits

I admit that it's odd; get as strong and quick as possible to hit someone as hard as you can once and then line up to do it again. But that's just how it is.

Now the linemen - yeah, most of them I doubt wouldn't last in a rugby game. They could squash players in one hit from pure strength but they'd pass out before they could get a good lick. Which is kind of the opposite of how the centres and wings would probably have no problem running around all game but wouldn't be the least bit effective cause of their small size in a football game. Nonetheless, I'm fairly confident the backs would have no problem playing a game of rugby.

You can bicker all you want about football only being played in 10-20 second intervals, but they don't train in 10-20 second intervals. They train with the goal to be the quickest/strongest people on the planet. Otherwise no one would watch.

I'm not saying either are better than the other. I just don't think you should be so disrespectful if someone likes Football. Especially if you don't know much about it. They're different sports man.

[Richie]

A lot of my friends who were too small/weak/slow to play football effectively in college eventually tried out rugby instead.

They can't have been good at rugby then. It should have been the ones who fail at rugby try out football. If you're small, weak or slow, rugby is definately not for you :D

[Nirvlime]

No no, I don't think you understand. They were too weak, small, and slow for College Football. Like one of my friends for example...He was a little over 6foot and about 230-250 - I'm not sure of his exact size. But if I had to guess realistically I'd say about that. But I do remember him benching 345ish and squatting 540. I think his 40 was about 4.7s. Those are great numbers for an end in high school. He played varsity 3 straight years and was a pretty damn good player. At a 5A school in Texas that's saying something. But division 1 college football is a different story. He was too weak, small, and slow - big schools weren't even really interested. He played college ball for a little bit at a small school but now he plays rugby. He enjoys it. As he should, cause it looks pretty fun.

I'm not trying to say rugby is a cop-out sport. From the looks of it - it's very demanding and you must be in great condition to play it seriously. But to say Football players are 'faeries' and wouldn't be able to handle rugby is just wrong.

They're different sports. Football is set up play by play. It's set up for the excite of 'what will happen next?'. each player has a specific job to do each play and if they execute it correctly big plays happen. But that rarely happens because there's 11 other players on the other side trying to counter that. They don't run around aimlessly. The pauses in between plays make it so each play the players can hit as hard as humanely possible. so every single muscle is working at 110% percent. I mean, despite all the pads and safety conditions athletes still die and become paralyzed. Without the pads there'd be much MUCH more. It's a different sport than rugby. You can't compare them.

[germ1984]

Being a big sport nut, I watch quite a bit of both. They are completely different games. The only similarity is the shape of the ball and where you have to get it to. To compare them is completely pointless.

I enjoy watching NFL for the big hits, athleticism of the players (particularly the running backs/recievers) and the tactics. I enjoy watching rugby for the flow of the game and the pure grit and ball handling skills shown by the players. Respect each game for its individual merits.

And NFL players are certainly NOT fairies.

[Lee]

Chicago Bears as I have lived there for 2 months of my life and 1 month in Munster, Indiana.

But thats just cos of locality.

baseball is a much better sport IMO White Sox are the team as I lived southside!

None however compare to the great game of real football! SAFC woot lol :devilish:

[Nirvlime]

Being a big sport nut, I watch quite a bit of both. They are completely different games. The only similarity is the shape of the ball and where you have to get it to. To compare them is completely pointless.

I enjoy watching NFL for the big hits, athleticism of the players (particularly the running backs/recievers) and the tactics. I enjoy watching rugby for the flow of the game and the pure grit and ball handling skills shown by the players. Respect each game for its individual merits.

And NFL players are certainly NOT fairies.

Thank you.

[slatey92]

the New York jets.

played with them on nfl game so hence forth

[ZeGerman]

Im a Bengals fan (yeah i know they suck but i love 'em). And to those of you posting on the Rugby vs. Football topic, I dont think you can relate the two, as they are completely different sports. In football pads are necessary because they do hit harder, and im not saying that because of strength or anything, but because there are different circumstances that come into play. In rugby you dont have a wide reciever running a slant route across the middle at full speed, and a 250 Lb. linebacker running the opposite direction hitting him head on with the reciever not even ever knowing hes there. Or if a ball is up in the air a reciever will go up and leave his entire body at risk of getting hit and spun so he lands on his neck, with without pads, could break his neck and kill him (could still happen, even with pads). Now livivng in America, I dont get to see a lot of rugby but I do know the rules and have seen the game played on a few occasions, but I would have to say, if you took some of the big hitters in the NFL (i.e. Brian Urlacher, Ray Lewis, etc.) and put them in a rugby game, you would see heads roll, I can promise you that

[Nagisa24]

its all about the chargers

[ROKOLA1]

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[blake_]

none

KEEP NFL OUT OF ENGLAND

[judder01]

Erm.. vikings or new york giants. Only because i used to play as them on NFL. TBH i never even watch it lol. For all i know they could all be dead :(

[IanM81]

Tennessee Titans, and i have followed them for 4 years now so its nice to see them doing eell for a change.

[shimbop9]

New England Patriots since Super Bowl XXXI.