Rugby is childs play comapred to american football. I wanna see a rugby player get hit by a 260 pound linebacker with no padding. If a rugby player can take a hit like that and not have a few broken ribs then i might consider saying football and rugby are even

Lawrence Dallaglio weighs 242 pounds
Martin Corry weighs 252 pounds
Steve Borthwick weighs 250 pounds
Phil Vickery weighs 260 pounds
I can carry on........
What are you yanks on, do you think the rugby players weigh as much as fairies or something? That is just the England team, the rest of the world might even weigh more, look at Sebastien Chabal, 240 pounds and nicknamed the caveman, hes one hell of a beast!!
rugby players weigh the same if not more, and get hit just as hard, clearly no idea about rugby so dont go making assumptions!!

Alright American Football Vs Rugby is a bit like comparing Apples and Oranges, or better still sprinters to marathon runners.
AF uses an offence and defence setup which is a bit like 2 teams Vs 2 teams. AF has 10 second spurts of high octane / full power play. AF has off the ball contact allowed. AF has very little endurance play. And so on...
Very different to Rugby. The big heavy props in Rugby have to run for 80mins, be offence and defence, stay at high power for the full 80 mins. They must use their variety of men wisely, you wouldn't put a wide reciever up against a line backer because it would burn him out in a minute, so in rugby the mens must plan accordingly too without the opportunity to swap out the entire side.
It might seem a bit tammer to AF because you are not allowed to endanger a man because it is sport after all, so you may not pick a man up and put him head down for example. If you pick him up it's your responsibiliy to put him down safely. That said enough bones still get broken.
http://www.youtube.com/wa tch?v=OsXJyDHFKn0
No comparing at all boys so chill. The Rugby boys are every bit as big as the AF boys, just look at the Auzzies and them savage NZ All Blacks

Thats wasn't SHIT!
Theyre built for this.Not interesting.

decent catch, nothing crazy.

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