Adhesive wrote:Agreed, I wish rugby would catch on in the states. But the average rugby player is 184cm tall and 95kg heavy. The average NFL'er is 187 and 111kg. They'd probably hurt themselves without all that extra padding. BTW, what is Australian football?
I once saw a Collage US football team try and train with a local rugby team. HUGELY funny just to see the difference in expectations, the grid iron boys turned up in full armor and were gobsmacked to see the local boys in shorts and t shirts practice tackles and scrums then divide up into two teams to play shirts and skins ie. one team played sans shirt. The best bit was when the locals tackled the padded up visitors and ran rings around them! I will admit that when the defence guys got a tackle the guy stayed tackled. At the end of training the Rugby guys were all laughing and joking and the Grid Iron boys were all wide eyed and muttering that the rugby guys were crazy for playing with no padding. Just to stay on topic, both teams demolished a huge amount of pizza after training!