do rugby players earn as much as football players?
925659
NO.\nbut they are gentlemen
429821
Baseball.  Many baseball players got paid more than 20 million a year (A-Rod, Manny...), with long term contracts.  The best paid NBA player is about 18 M.  Best paid football players earn less than 10 M.  \n\nHowever, football players only play 16 regular season games.  It depends on how you calculate it.  Also, baseball players have much longer career, basketball players have more advertise income...
387467
At our country, Argentina, is still amateur, and it is forbiden for the clubs to pay their players, you can get something playing for the national team though. I LIKE IT THAT WAY.
934876
I wouldn't be surprised if there was more than one. Before football became flooded with money and when the North-South economic divide was more pronounced, it was common for lower division players in the North to stay in the North and be transferred between the same half a dozen clubs simply because they wouldn't have been able to afford a similar standard of life down South. As recently as the 80's most football players were on relatively modest wages. In 1984 Mark Hughes was on £250 per week with Man Utd so imagine what a Bury or Crewe player would have been taking home at the same time.
1162949
Yes. Well it wouldn't really be practical. Maybe if the amount of money put into football could go to the NHS and the like, carers, etc. could have a decent wage which reflects their work and other money could be spent on machines and training, etc. I definitely don't see how it can possibly be seen as fair that footballers get paid so much. All they do is play a game. And they only do that half the year for a couple of hours at a time. Nurses, etc. have to work stupid hours all the time for a crappy wage which is hardly livable.\nMr. Evil is a careworker and although his wage is higher than some, he still doesn't get paid enough.
618297
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.
937538
Almost every team in the Conference National is full time professional, so their players will earn decent wages. \n\nBut below that, most teams are semi-professional and their players all have other full time jobs, so they train maybe three nights a week after work. An average wage for most players at Rymans Premier level would be around £140 per week, with additional win bonuses. The richer clubs normally can afford to pay better wages, and former professionals would usually get more as well.\n\nActually, £10 entrance in the Rymans Premier League is excessive. Clubs at this level charge between £9 and £7 to stand.
68776
Rugby rules!\n\nSee and compare these two:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rugby_union\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_football\n\nAnd you can die for your sport (though less frequent these days). From rugby in New Zealand:\n"The finding of ACC in the late 1980's that rugby cost the taxpayer over $20 million dollars per year in new and ongoing entitlement claims. There were, on average, 2 deaths, 1500 hospital admissions, and 20,000 Accident and Emergency consultations per year as a result of rugby."\n\nThis is taken from a page talking about what NZ is doing to work on preventing injuries, see:\nhttp://www.nzrugbynet.co.nz/NZRFU/Resource+Library/RugbySmart.htm\n\nI see NFL as more of a business in the USA than a sport. It's totally ruled by TV schedules and players earn and are therefore worth so much money that they need to wear monumental amounts of protection so that clubs get their return on investment.
345316
The NRL should raise the clubs salary cap so they can pay their players a bit better - that might stop some of the defections
1136995
Of course they get paid, and trust me it is plenty plenty money. They also get bonuses or incentives. For instance I know the saudi arabian team will EACH get 150 000 euros if they qualify to the next round. Most teams get bonuses for scoring goals, not letting in goals, qualifying to further rounds, golden boot winner gets a packet of money. Money rules that tournament!
490875
They are always running yes.\n\nBut its nothing like rugby.  Rugby is more like NFL as basically play from a line, both teams on opposite sides when the play starts.\n\nAussie Rules is not a stop start game, more like soccer in that respect, but where you can use hands, with tackling, hard hits, high flying catches (called marks) and generally high scoring goal kicking.\n\nIt's a great game to watch.\n\nAs far as telling you the rules, have you got 6 months?&#92;\n\nCheck out the AFL website or better yet, watch a game or highlights package.
469891
I think they are. But mainly in the field of baseball. When players go on strike because they are not getting paid what they think they are worth, which in most cases is grossly exaggerated, everybody gets mad. The players because " WE WANT MORE MONEY OR WE DON"T PLAY", the owners because they are losing money, and us fans, because they are getting paid for our entertainment. Every sport should be like football and have a salary cap. Did you know the New York Yankees are worth over 1 billion dollars? Isn't that a bit ridiculous? That's why they are so good. They can buy all their players. But every time they complain they get there way. PRO SPORTS PLAYERS ARE GETTING WAY TOO MUCH MONEY!!!!
289910
no matter what they say, rugby is only similar to american football in the sense that it has rules that no-one can understand and that are very hard to police because of the confusion with interpretation of the rules. Confused? the idea is simple. 15 players on each team and they are trying to get to the try line at the other end of the 100 meter field. 1 problem, 15 other giants with the same thing in mind will do anything to stop u. Easy as. watch an all blacks game from new zealand and you will see what rugby is like in its best form.
1047223
Ive played rugby for my college and now that im no longer in college im having withdrawals!! I love rugby it spans oceans overcomes racisim and bigotry....its not life or death....its more important than that!!
1107239
They do,\n\nNo NFL player gets paid from their contract if they get injured from a risky activity besides football.  All of the contracts have that stipulation in them
1039769
Unfortunately it is all about money. The rugby clubs can make much more money selling these tickets than than they get from the actual fans of the club.
1068464
Depends what position you play, My best mate plays in the scrum and he's 19 stone or 266Ibs. The difference between Rugby players and American football players is Rugby players don't strap on 40Ibs of protective clothing to go and play a practically the same game! They just go out with shirt and shorts.