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| Quote: Wheres My Shirt ""Is it a cross of [American] football and soccer?"
Yes, that's [iexactly[/i what it is. ![]()
It`s much more accurate to say that rugby league, rugby Union, American football and soccer are ALL variants of `football` which was played in the 19th century under a variety of rules which varied from area to area.
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Well they seem to like it, now hopefully they all go out and play it.
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I like the NFL but they wear too much padding.
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| Quote: Bulliac "It`s much more accurate to say that rugby league, rugby Union, American football and soccer are ALL variants of `football` which was played in the 19th century under a variety of rules which varied from area to area.'"
Indeed, and American Football was the first professionally organised football code. |
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| Quote: The Angry Bohemian "I like the NFL but they wear too much padding.'"
Quote: The Angry Bohemian " They need the padding though if you see some of the tackles that happen even with all the padding a lot of serious injuries occur, the majority of them are leg injuries (where they dont have so much padding) which suggests that the padding is working and shows why it is needed in the first place '"
Try and play it and you will soon realise that you dont have enough padding on  |
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Americans are far too stupid and distasteful for it to ever take off over there. Once the opening fireworks finished theyd making a swift exit via the burger van.
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| Quote: LFCRhino "Try and play it and you will soon realise that you dont have enough padding on ![]()
Indeed
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The play of American Football is dictated by the padding itself though.
The way they tackle and the way they throw their bodies into a tackle is able to happen BECAUSE of the padding.
Take the padding away and they would have to change how they tackle.
Similarly, put a Rugby League team in all that gear and Rugby League would change. The way players run, the way they tackle....it would be dictated by all that gear they were carrying.
I think some people think the NFL is a competition played by super humans, but its not. They are specialized to a sport, they still hurt, they still bleed.
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Twice this month I've agreed with him ... I need a beer!
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im sure if the coverage is extended to the future the NRL can build a small dedicated fanbase. remember RL is alien to most americans so as they continue watching they will catch on to its name an rules, and hey what is the internet for? if they can find their way to twitter (whatever it is) then they can find their way to wikipedia or nrl.com or rfl.co.uk!
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| Quote: Wes Hooligan "Things like this make me wonder whether we should have considered changing the code's name in the past. Only a few of those Americans seem to acknowledge that it's RL being played, and I'm worried that they may confuse it with Union or even 'Australian Rules' as one person said. Obviously it's never going to happen, I just wish we had a more easily distinguishable and marketable name so it is clearer that RL is a sport in its own right rather than a 'variant on traditional Rugby'.'" the aussie rules comment was from an ex aussie expat liveing in america . cant u read  the nrl should allow usa tv access to all nrl games from this year and into the future  |
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| Quote: stew88_RL "if they can find their way to twitter (whatever it is) then they can find their way to wikipedia or nrl.com or rfl.co.uk!'"
Indeed. Personally I'm not sure if they need "business-ready IT solutions" but it must be worth a look anyway. |
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| The freak is bang on with this.
I have had this discussion at work with many yanks, the tackling technique in NFL simply doesn't exist and that's why there are so many injuries.
Jumping in head first in to tackles is a sure fire way of smashing up your body!!!
But it is great to see Spike show NRL, great news!
Quote: The Glorious League Freak "The play of American Football is dictated by the padding itself though.
The way they tackle and the way they throw their bodies into a tackle is able to happen BECAUSE of the padding.
Take the padding away and they would have to change how they tackle.
Similarly, put a Rugby League team in all that gear and Rugby League would change. The way players run, the way they tackle....it would be dictated by all that gear they were carrying.
I think some people think the NFL is a competition played by super humans, but its not. They are specialized to a sport, they still hurt, they still bleed.'" |
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