Rugby League or Rugby Union?
925941
Union.  League is for Northern Monkeys.
1151862
i love rugby. i grew up next to a rugby park, i never miss a game.
32226
canada at least, they got their own league, the CFL, here, in europe, we have a pro league too called the NFLE (E for Europe), teams are mostly based in germany, otherwise, each european country has its own non-pro league\nTo answer your second question, no, (US) football and rugby are to different sports; they have some things in common, like, for instance, the shape of the ball (although the pigskin is a bit smaller than the rugby ball) and the way to score points (entering the endzone with the ball) although in tugby, the ball MUST touch the ground in order to score the 5 or 6 pts...
296028
Rugby, American football is for girls: all that padding and stuff! ;-)\n\nReal men play Rugby
340731
In rugby union it was England, in rubgy League it was Australia.
302584
Rugby is more dinamic, mainly because you can not block someone without the ball, and yards are harder to get passing the ball backwards forces you to run more, and it does not have time out every  few seconds...
428435
OK - I don't claim to be an expert, but here is my version of what makes them different in terms of rules.\n\nLeague does not allow the ref to "play the advantage" as much. This means if someone does something wrong (such as a forward pass) the ref has to stop and penalise in league. Not so in union. The ref may let it continue on to see if the other team ends up in a better advantage than the other.\n\nRuck and Mauls - OK I don't get this with union. Something about depending on whether the guy with the ball gets rolled over or something, he has to release the ball whilst he is being tackled.\n\nScrums - actually still a point to this in union. In league a scrum very rarely results in a turnover in possession because the rules basically state that players aren't allowed to push in the scrum. In union they can.\n\nUnion has lineouts. Once again - I don't really understand union so I don't know why they do this. but basically each team lines up and one guy throws the ball and both teams throw one of their guys in the air anf try to catch it.
896019
State of Origin - Rugby League
1015468
No. Anyone who says so hasn't played both. I played rugby through college and after, and there's a camraderie and spirit present in rugby that is absent in all big-time sports, football included. But, in terms of toughness, they're equal. Rugby players don't experience the high impact collisions football players do, and football players don't play without pads for 45 minute halves. \n\nRegarding some of the other postings:\n- Australia, NZ (except the mountains where they don't play rugby), and Fiji don't have freezing climates.\n- Getting your balls grabbed doesn't make you tougher. I do believe I would have quit rugby if I had my balls fondled. But hey, if that's your reason for playing, more power to you.\n- Anyone who tore their ACL, in football or rugby, would be carted off on a stretcher. Your ACL keeps your leg from bending double. That's important, whether you're playing football or not.\n- Football players play hurt just like rugby players. \n- Anyone commenting on how hard they hit in rugby has never played the game. The goal in rugby is to put your man down, not to hit him as hard as you can. It's illegal to hit without wrapping, or to leave your feet, and yardage is meaningless.\n\nI've played with guys from South Africa and Australia who said American football was crazy and that they'd never play it. The sports are different. I chose to play rugby, but I don't need to try to take something away from football players to make me feel better.
393793
It won't we have football instead which is more widely played and is similar to rugby.
286167
Union came first as an amuture game.It was first played in the English midlands at a Rugby school in 1823 ( the legend is that it was William Webb Ellis who invented the game, but that has been proven as a hoax) In the late 19th century there were players and officials who became disillusioned with the attitue of rugby union and developed a break away code called Rugby League which has always been a professional paid sport.Union officals always wanted to keep Union a gentleman's sport and amature. and it was up until the mid 1990's when attitues changed and players were paid thus now being  a professional sport. ( a well paid one too).
784481
Look at the pros and cons of doing either one and choose which one you'd be happier doing.\n\nI say Volleyball.
753023
Ha! Not much chance of that mate. I'm sure people play it here, but you'll have to get your gear ordered in from overseas. And finding a team will be really difficult. Try rugby. Or League. Heaps of people play it, and it's easy to find a team and gear.
667481
There are two different types of rugby, try these two sites.\nLeague:-http://news.bbc.co.uk/sportacademy/hi/sa/rugby_league/rules/default.stm\nUnion:-\nhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/sportacademy/hi/sa/rugby_union/rules/default.stm
1098668
Australian rugby league is the best, soccer is ok.
405333
i would say soccer also because it is widely spread over the globe. I dunno know if you've ever seen all of the riots over soccer games, but it gets pretty bad.there was once a civil war started over a soccer game!
1074005
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.