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chicoazul said:
Tougher and better. All day.
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I agree, but don't discount rugby players wholesale. These guys look tough.

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chicoazul said:
Again I have to point it out to Americans, bigger, faster and stronger does not mean tougher. The bells are wearing padding and helmets, they would scream like little girls in the opening ten minutes of rugby guaranteed.

It also highlights why the best NFL players could not beat an average Rugby League team. You breed them as big and fast and strong for a game which is glorified British Bulldog without any skill.

Rugby Union requires not only fitness and toughness and speed, but also intelligence in the game. And endurance to wrap it all up.

It's twice the game played by guys who have to be three times as tough.

No backchat.
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Union is ok but inferior to league, for a hand based game to be decided by who's got he best kicker so many times kind of undermines it as a serious spectacle.

League is always decided by who scored the most tries. It's the fundamental difference which makes League the better sport.
 
RaleighBlue said:
Fixed, I'm assuming.

Studies have shown however, that when people believe they are protected then they are more likely to act dangerously. For example, pedestrian deaths rose after airbags became common, because drivers were more likely to drive recklessly. Combined with the fact that helmets and pads do not protect against a number of terrible injuries, this leads to really bad stuff.

On top of that, the complete lack of endurance (or need for it) contributes to the dangers of American football. These people do everything at top speed, because they don't have to keep running - they get lots of breathers.

Not saying they are tougher, I don't think they are, but it's deffo more dangerous.
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It's a struggle to see that as anything other than coincidence.
 

Steve0 said:
Union is ok but inferior to league, for a hand based game to be decided by who's got he best kicker so many times kind of undermines it as a serious spectacle.

League is always decided by who scored the most tries. It's the fundamental difference which makes League the better sport.
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Hahaha no way lid, that's exactly why League is worse than Union. It's like half way between a proper sport (Rugby Union) and a quasi jarg American sport (Rugby League). There's no real skill in it, just a load of lads on steroids running dead fast into each other. League even has all that cringeworthy cheerleaders and MONSTER TRUCKS and names like SEAHAWKS after their name, the bad bells.

In Union there's different ways of winning the game so it makes it harder. You got to negate the threat of negative sides who play percentage rugby like the recent England team and then next game you could face a game who's fluid with the ball in their hands like France or Wales.

Throw in the rucks continual ball movement and you have a much superior game to League. As recognised by the world which prefers Union to League or the distant American Football.

Rugby Union.
 
Steve0 said:
It's a struggle to see that as anything other than coincidence.
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Example for seatbelts - as seatbelt legislation was introduced, seatbelt wearers began to drive faster:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8198694?dopt=Abstract


Obviously, in many situations the increased safety is greater than the increased risk behavior, but it can cause more 'catastrophic' accidents while reducing more minor accidents.
 


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