SUPERBOWL SUNDAY

Is it only on Sky?

It's on BBC

edit, beaten to it above

It's rugby for pussies. The real game is on at 3pm.

Handsome Bob wrote: »

DarkJager wrote: »

It's rugby for pussies.

It is!? Rugby must be the sport for uber pussies so.

Yes it is, just look at the full body armor these guys wear just to play it. There's none of that crap in rugby, just full contact. That's why American football is rugby for pussies.

DarkJager wrote: »

It's rugby for pussies. The real game is on at 3pm.

It's odd, that's exactly how Rugby was explained to me (only in reverse)

'Rugby is like Football, but for pussies'

I'll watch it over the top of me netbook. Wouldn't be a bad sport if they didn't have so many breaks.

I think BBC show it the following night without all the breaks - or at least they did once a couple of years ago.


Rugby is the best team sport in the world by far imo.

DarkJager wrote: »

Yes it is, just look at the full body armor these guys wear just to play it. There's none of that crap in rugby, just full contact. That's why American football is rugby for pussies.

I'm going to try and stop this thread from turning into a American Football verse Rugby debate. Let's all take a breath and think about this reasonably....

Both sports allow the use of padding, but the requirements are different and have impacted the way the sports are played. In the NFL, rather than limit the effectiveness of pads, they'll allowed them to advance and get better. The result is that players can hit each other harder, with less concern for form or safety.

I've played both football and rugby (at very amateur levels, naturally) and I can tell you, neither are for pussies (let's reserve that title for 'soccer' players, shall we?). The style of play is very different. And for each difference you can name, there are people on each side arguing that difference makes their sport better.

In either case, without an understanding of the sport; it's unlikely you'll appreciate it or find it interesting. Nobody ever says, 'I'd never seen Rugby/Football/X before but it was on at the pub and I really thought it was awesome!'

People's first reaction is to associate the new sport with the sport they deem it most familiar to and than assume it's a lessor form. Show an American a rugby match and he says, 'Looks like pussies playing Football'. Show an Irishman American football and he says, 'Looks like pussies playing Rugby'.

That is, until they've watched enough to understand it.

To be perfectly honest, I don't see how you could enjoy one and not the other; if you actually follow them both any sufficiently long length of time.