rugby or american football
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Hard to compare the two, but I chose rugby. Mostly because I like the rawness of it.
American football players wear a lot of padding and I prefer sports where there isn't as much padding (or none at all). Aussie rules football is another sport I really enjoy watching.
American football players wear a lot of padding and I prefer sports where there isn't as much padding (or none at all). Aussie rules football is another sport I really enjoy watching.
Oh crap. I let the mods have too much power for my title 
We might as well leave it until I can come up with something brilliant ... which in my case, could take years
We might as well leave it until I can come up with something brilliant ... which in my case, could take years
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Let me guess, all the Americans will say football, non-Americans, especially Europeans will say rugby.
Who cares? I like football because that's what I grew up with.
It's kind of like you said Blindside, American football players wear pads because on every play they directly collide with incredible force. Back in the old days people died from not having appropriate equipment. Nowadays someone still gets injured pretty much every game and several get seriously injured every year WITH pads
Concussions, broken bones, torn cartilage etc are commonplace.
I'm sure Rugby is tough too, but I have little knowledge of it
Who cares? I like football because that's what I grew up with.
It's kind of like you said Blindside, American football players wear pads because on every play they directly collide with incredible force. Back in the old days people died from not having appropriate equipment. Nowadays someone still gets injured pretty much every game and several get seriously injured every year WITH pads
Concussions, broken bones, torn cartilage etc are commonplace.
I'm sure Rugby is tough too, but I have little knowledge of it
Just imagine a red solid leather ball flying at your head at 90miles an hour.
Gets my vote everytime
But the game is goofy
Probably. I don't know anybody that even knows the rules to cricket. Pakis and East Indians play it a lot here in the summer.
If there is going to be a ball coming at me that fast, I'd choose lacrosse
If there is going to be a ball coming at me that fast, I'd choose lacrosse
Probably. I don't know anybody that even knows the rules to cricket. Pakis and East Indians play it a lot here in the summer.
If there is going to be a ball coming at me that fast, I'd choose lacrosse
I do so you know me
But most Pakistani's I know would find being called a Paki pretty offensive as it's used as an insult over here, a little like calling a black guy a n***er. I imagine it must be different in Canada
This is rugby
I don't really have much time for it really, it's just an excuse for posh guys to get rough with each other and shower together
Maybe it's different up north, down here state schools don't play rugby, it's only private schools. Plus, if you look at the England team, they're traditionally made up of Cambridge and Oxford graduates who don't even need to work
Just look at the notible alumni from Johnny Wilkinsons school
Lord Wandsworth College - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
And this place too
Barnard Castle School - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
You could make a decent international squad from those 2 schools alone, you don't get that with state schools
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Nope its a racist term here too.