Im a football fan and i wanna ask other football fans why they think football is better than rugby.I give them respect because they have no protection and their game never stops .....its like soccer.Now i play both but prefer football.I want some reasons why you think american football is better than rugby and why.we gotta stop them from dissing us.
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Easy to understand?  Both Rugby and Football are difficult for someone you has never seen the game to follow.  They need to be sitting with someone who has really played the game to get a good explaination. Rugby is a bit easier because the action follows the ball and the ball is easier to see, however football on tv is well explained with glowing yellow lines and announcers. Tie\n\nToughness- I'd love to watch an 80 minute rugby game in slow motion because man, these boys are bad!  They give out some brusing hits and then just get up and do it again.  The contact however is not head on like in US football. Rugby- it's better than watching a toughman contest\n\nSounds - BLUE 38, BLUE 38, football is a great game for the sounds, the crunch of the O line and D line colliding, the pop of a good hit, the linebackers and Qb giving audibles. Also include the music and cheerleaders.\n\nStrategy and depth of the game- rugby- like soccer- has little strategy compared to football.  Football is mind over matter, the smartest, most together teams win, not the ones with the most talent.- Football\n\nRouting for the team- RUGBY -  When you have an entire country behind you, that is something else. I love the 6 nations and rugby world cup for this.  It is more exciting to watch New Zealand play Austrilia, US play Japan or even Fiji vs Tonga than Cleveland vs Tennesse.\n\n\nScore is tied 2 vs 2\n\nTie breaker - The SHOW!  Watching (or playing) Football is filled with brilliant moments, the brusing sack, the interceptions, one handed catchs, pancake blocks, juke left juke right stiff arm then run for a 80 touchdown, leaping TD catchs, Punt + kickoff returns, and the Hail Mary Pass to win it.  Sure it is a game that stops and starts more, but if you know what to look for, the wait is worth it.\n\nand the winner is: Football
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I played soccer from about age 6 to age 12 then switched to American football until 18.  I started playing rugby at age 14 and played through college until an elbow injury caused me to quit.  I would say soccer is the easiest game to learn, followed by rugby, then American football.  In terms of how hard each is to play, soccer is the easiest followed by American football and then rugby.  American football is the hardest to learn because there are so many plays you have to learn and you have to be able to read what the other team is going to do, then put it all together.  It is a little easier to play than rugby because you have specialized positions and only have to do what your position asks you to do.  In rugby there isn't much to learn and there aren't that many plays.  You use more of your instincts than intelligence.  And it doesn't matter what position you play.  Once you are past the scrums and line-outs everyone on the team has the same responsibilities.  You'll see the big forwards in the back line, smaller backs in the rucks, everyone tackling and everyone scoring.  Plus rugby has by far the most fit atheletes in the world.  Its like an 80 minute sprint while running into a brick wall over and over again.  When I was in high school my American football season (including summer practices) was from June until November and rugby went from December to May (including winter practices).  I was at my fittest at the end of the rugby season and most out of shape at the end of the football season.
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first, for all the idiots who think "soccer" is solely American perhaps i should point out that Canada and Australia also use "soccer" rather than football. so before you go accusing Americans of being narrow-minded look in the mirror. football was the common term in America at the inception of our federation but due to the popularity of American football it was deemed wise to use an alternative term and because it makes absolutely no sense to have 2 "footballs" competing with one another (same goes for Canada and Australia).
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What is football to me... it changed my life, i played it when i was young kid for about 2 years in a team, then i left it then started at 15, been playing it ever since.. i am currently 19 playing in state league in Sydney, Australia... it changed me physically, mentally, socially. It made me realise that it changed the life of many children in disadvantaged communities all over the world, away from drugs and fighting. It is great for World Peace... Maybe not for England VS Argentina.. but it is still good. :D
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NFL - the champion is determined on the field, not thanks to a bunch of voters. The level of the game is higher, talent is better. You do not get to beat up on some small school that has no chance against you. Anyone can beat anyone in the NFL in one game.
524502
Well American football wears pads and rugby they only wear helmets. They both have footballs also called (Pig skins). But rugby kicks the ball and throw it to there players to score but Americans Throw it too there players until they can score
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To defend the Americans (for once) I have been a fan of American Football for some years and it is a specifically (and continuously) impact sport where the padding is absolutely necessary.  Even with it there are still significant injuries.\n\nRugby is absolutely a rough sport but if they hit like the American footballers do we would need 50 a side to be able to finish the game.\n\nOverall enjoy the sport you love, don't try to big it up by slagging off other sports\n\nPeace Out.
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CRICKET IS OLD AND FAT PEOPLE'S GAME,BUT I LOVE IT BCOZ IT AIS A BRAINY GAME ......NUTTIES LIKE U DONT UNDERSTAND....FOOTBALL IS A REAL GUY'S GAME....IT NEEDS LOTS OF STAMINA AND GUTS....U WEAK DUDH PAV INDIANS KEEP OFF.....FOOTBALL IS LINKED TO A HELLA ADRENALINE PUMPING...FOR PLYERS PLUS FANS
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I can't speak to the comparison between the two because I have no idea what rugby is like.  Essentially...  The team with the ball has four chances (called "downs") to advance the ball ten yards.  If successful, they get four new downs to advance the ball another ten yards, and they try to keep going, ten yards at a time, until they reach the end zone (this is a "touchdown," which is worth six points plus a chance for one more if they kick a short field goal).  Probably 95-99 times out of 100 if the team hasn't advanced the ball ten yards after third down, they'll use fourth down to either punt it to the other team or attempt to kick a field goal (for three points).  Football is far too complex to fully explain here (check that wikipedia link that the other person left), but those are the most basic of the basics for the new football-watcher.
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Those of you who think football is better need to pull your heads out of your butts.  Baseball has been here since 1847 and major league play started in 1871.  You think football is better because the season is shorter and is much easier to follow.  Don't get me wrong, I love football.  It's just that baseball has left its mark on our country.  Look at what our country's been through since that faithful May 4, 1871 when the Fort Wayne Kekiongas defeated the Cleveland Forest City 2-0.  We have been through war 5 different times, had 17 different presidents, went through a depression, and discovered 2 new planets.  The only thing that has been constant and kept all of us together was that great game we call baseball.  We dropped atomic bombs on 2 Japanese cities and baseball held us together.  The game has given America its real freedom.  You don't have to like it, you only have to respect it and imagine what America would be without it today.
608198
American football is a series of wildly high-speed collisions. I've played rugby as well but I also played high school football - which is a very big deal here in America. I was sidelined for one year by tearing two major knee ligaments and I also suffered two severe concussions. American football is a painful, difficult sport. Rugby is also both of these things, but in rugby there are fewer impact collisions and it is more of a tussling sport.\n\nBoth sports should be played with a great deal of protection. Rugby will not last without pads forever.
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Rugby, American football is for girls: all that padding and stuff! ;-)\n\nReal men play Rugby
602761
i like playing soccer is a challenge i personally find it harder to play than soccer than football you have to have so many different skills in soccer. in football you only have on job one objective either run pass catch or tackle i like both but i like playing soccer better
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It is also the most popular sport in the world and it truly envolves the entire world (give or take a small handful of countries that do not participate)\n\nIt makes me laugh when I read the posts saying soccer players are pansies. They obviously have no clue. This game envolves atheletics and skills of the highest level. \n\nBy comparison, American Football players play a one hour game stretched over three or more hours and then only play half the game as there are two teams, one for offense and one for defense. And there are only 3 situations where the ball is put in play by ones foot; kick-off, a punt and a field goal attempt. (and anyone who says American Football players are tough because of the hits envolved, watch a rugby match...those guys don't wear pads and the game is MUCH more brutal than football)\n\nSoccer is a game played for an hour and half and it takes an hour and forty five minutes (give or take a few minutes for stoppage time). During this time all players (with the exception of the Keeper) are running the length of the pitch practically non-stop. Add to this the skill envolved in dribbling, passing and scoring while using anything but your hands and I'd think most would agree that this is an amazing game.\n\nI think the game is quite impressive and every four years this culminates in one of the greatest sporting tournaments ever, The World Cup.
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It is what you are used to. There are Americans who find rugby boring. However, in response to the gentleman above, rugby can organise a legitimate World Cup whereas American football isn't played at a high level outside the US and Canada (given that Canadian football is a variation.\n\nThey wear the padding and helmets as protection. However, that allows them to make harder hits. There are legitimate injury concerns as 25 people died playing gridiron between 2000-2004.
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Hello, i'm david i used to live in europe for 15 years, i lived in the usa for 4 years now. I am a huge sport fan, when i was in europe i followed soccer and basketball. In europe american football is not popular at all, nba is making its case right now, but not the nfl. I think the only people who care about American football are American, but don't get me wrong i am a Chicago bears fan since i moved too america. The top two reasons i believe is that football is slow paced and there is two many commercial and it is called football
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I think it all depends on who you are and  where you live. \n\nFor say, if you a middle aged American man, you might say American football. \n\nOr if you are, I don't want to offend anyone, a younger English person, football might be better for you. \n\nI think it really all depends. Personally, I like non-American football!SOCCER!\n\n:)