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<blockquote data-quote="Gay-Guy" data-source="post: 78491"><p>Hahaha...great link that!</p><p></p><p>Always good to hear Americans lauding our sport! Especially saying that "American football players would be winded, bleeding and crying by the end of a normal match. Basketball players would be broken in half. Baseball players would swallow their chew." lol!</p><p></p><p>Lets be fair though. The States have fantastic talent in the Gridiron ranks......it is not totally their fault if their game has evolved with more armour protection....or is it?</p><p></p><p>Some guy on that article said that rugby is played by fat men wallowing in the mud......I think that guy probably wore more Gridiron armour than anyone else when he played....if he played! :lol: When there is no stoppage after 10 seconds an elite Gridiron player would probably start to feel like a fat man wallowing in the mud if he had to run up and down the field tackling everyone he could get his hands on.....</p><p></p><p>They did experiements to ascertain exactly WHY rugby players needed more time to "recover" from a game than perhaps baseball/basketball/gridiron and even SOCCER! In the end they calculated that the cumulated "stress" load a top level rugby player endured during one game was equivalent to the stres load of running a marathon! Even us who have played at a social level would have to agree that a normal game of rugby has you feeling out of action for the next 2 days. The combined effects of weight load stress/explosive reflex/ and constant motion on muscles that happened in a rugby game was found to be very damaging to the body structure and needed at least 3 days to recover somewhat to a state that was at least ready to train again.</p><p></p><p>If North America never grows with rugby....it is THEIR loss. The rest of the world will grow, as rugby slowly yet surely increases in many parts of the world. Eventually rugby will be big enough that the States will have to acknowledge that it is a major sport worldwide and worthy of ESPN. However by that time they will be too far behind and will just watch each World Cup in awe knowing that their equivalent (gridiron) is not as hardcore.....therefore being unable to claim they have the most hardcore team playing the most hardcore team game in the world!.....and that is a mighty kick in the pants to the American male eagle....oh....I mean ego. :cheers:</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Gay-Guy, post: 78491"] Hahaha...great link that! Always good to hear Americans lauding our sport! Especially saying that "American football players would be winded, bleeding and crying by the end of a normal match. Basketball players would be broken in half. Baseball players would swallow their chew." lol! Lets be fair though. The States have fantastic talent in the Gridiron ranks......it is not totally their fault if their game has evolved with more armour protection....or is it? Some guy on that article said that rugby is played by fat men wallowing in the mud......I think that guy probably wore more Gridiron armour than anyone else when he played....if he played! :lol: When there is no stoppage after 10 seconds an elite Gridiron player would probably start to feel like a fat man wallowing in the mud if he had to run up and down the field tackling everyone he could get his hands on..... They did experiements to ascertain exactly WHY rugby players needed more time to "recover" from a game than perhaps baseball/basketball/gridiron and even SOCCER! In the end they calculated that the cumulated "stress" load a top level rugby player endured during one game was equivalent to the stres load of running a marathon! Even us who have played at a social level would have to agree that a normal game of rugby has you feeling out of action for the next 2 days. The combined effects of weight load stress/explosive reflex/ and constant motion on muscles that happened in a rugby game was found to be very damaging to the body structure and needed at least 3 days to recover somewhat to a state that was at least ready to train again. If North America never grows with rugby....it is THEIR loss. The rest of the world will grow, as rugby slowly yet surely increases in many parts of the world. Eventually rugby will be big enough that the States will have to acknowledge that it is a major sport worldwide and worthy of ESPN. However by that time they will be too far behind and will just watch each World Cup in awe knowing that their equivalent (gridiron) is not as hardcore.....therefore being unable to claim they have the most hardcore team playing the most hardcore team game in the world!.....and that is a mighty kick in the pants to the American male eagle....oh....I mean ego. :cheers: [/QUOTE]
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