Author Topic: Rugby is a tough game...WOW (Read 552 times)

RedTop · « **on:** April 17, 2005, 04:24:41 PM »

http://www.big-boys.com/articles/rugbyhits.html

NUKE · « **Reply #1 on:** April 17, 2005, 04:27:43 PM »

Looks like gay soccer with a little contact.

Furball · « **Reply #2 on:** April 17, 2005, 05:01:41 PM »

sport hurts

Skydancer · « **Reply #3 on:** April 17, 2005, 05:22:47 PM »

Nuke like those gay boys that like dressing up in fancy costumes?

Oh no sorry you call them fotball players!

YUCCA · « **Reply #4 on:** April 17, 2005, 05:29:00 PM »

Either way i wouldnt want to be in there.

Vulcan · « **Reply #5 on:** April 17, 2005, 06:35:21 PM »

thats not tuff... this is tuff:

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(CNN) -- In 1986, Wayne "Buck" Shelford raised the notch of All Black sporting endeavors when he finished a test against France in Nantes with a ripped testicle.

This daring -- some would say desperate -- feat came one year before the All Blacks picked up rugby's biggest prize, the first World Cup in 1987, culminating a century of dominating the code.

Or this:

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Associate ACC minister Ruth Dyson sent the lately declining government wowser-o-meter off the scale this week when she issued a press release ticking off Wellington captain Norm Hewitt for playing the last 20 minutes of Saturday's NPC final against Canterbury with a broken arm. When the drive to curb rugby injuries had succeeded so well, she said, Norm was a bad role model for young players.

lasersailor184 · « **Reply #6 on:** April 17, 2005, 09:10:27 PM »

I saw two, maybe three hits that could maybe have been as hard as some of the hits in Football.

I'm not impressed.

Vulcan · « **Reply #7 on:** April 17, 2005, 11:43:02 PM »

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Originally posted by lasersailor184
I saw two, maybe three hits that could maybe have been as hard as some of the hits in Football.

I'm not impressed.

Uh yeah right. Little or no padding. No helmets. Ohhh, and no massive breaks. These guys play two almost non-stop 40 minute halves.

Watch a good rugby game, watch some real atheletes in real sport.

American football, meh, just a bunch of steroid grown pansies who need a break every 30 seconds.

Torque · « **Reply #8 on:** April 17, 2005, 11:51:15 PM »

I doubt lasersailor184 has played either sport in a league.

My dad had the whole Irish team over for a house party during their tour of Canada back in the 70's. He also played for a good twenty years.

Rugby is brutal, played for a few years and decide to keep my good looks and switched to football. Played football for about five years it was a lot less painfull.

These guys are nuts...

Nash · « **Reply #9 on:** April 18, 2005, 12:14:40 AM »

I was one of those kids that had to play every sport. Nothing sucked worse than when rugby season rolled around. shreckin' hated it.

Vulcan · « **Reply #10 on:** April 18, 2005, 04:20:12 AM »

Uh I was a big kid, not atheletic, just big, and enjoyed it... I usually played prop.

lasersailor184 · « **Reply #11 on:** April 18, 2005, 07:37:05 PM »

I've seen more guys get knocked out in Football then I have in Rugby. I watch my school's rugby teams.

Yet, even though the Football players wear pads, more of them get knocked out. What conclusion does that lead you to?

Skydancer · « **Reply #12 on:** April 18, 2005, 07:39:37 PM »

They are big softys

AKS\/\/ulfe · « **Reply #13 on:** April 18, 2005, 08:13:10 PM »

I'd rather play football than Rugby, and I played high school football.

Atleast I had a face mask covering my face, and pads covering my knees and fronts of my thighs.
-SW

RTStuka · « **Reply #14 on:** April 18, 2005, 08:21:10 PM »

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Originally posted by lasersailor184
I saw two, maybe three hits that could maybe have been as hard as some of the hits in Football.

I'm not impressed.

You have gotta be smoking something, those hits were just as hard as football and they didnt have any pads.

Hey question for anyone who knows the sport, I noticed every time a guy tackled the guy with the ball and we was wrestling with him on the ground one of his buddies would come up and slap him on the back a bunch of times, why is that.