tackle football saturday (sept.1) newport news
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did you ever notice that there are no pure athletes that play rugby?
in fact, i'd venture to say most people who play rugby this side of the atlantic are not athletic at all, just big, slow meatheads with little to no hand-eye coordination who couldn't make the football team in high school.
and another question, take away the pads, and what makes rugby any more 'manly' than football?
as for playing saturday, idk. i've tried to get bastards from this board to play for years, now i think i'm too old/intelligent to risk any injuries.
besides, college football starts this saturday.
maybe.
in fact, i'd venture to say most people who play rugby this side of the atlantic are not athletic at all, just big, slow meatheads with little to no hand-eye coordination who couldn't make the football team in high school.
and another question, take away the pads, and what makes rugby any more 'manly' than football?
as for playing saturday, idk. i've tried to get bastards from this board to play for years, now i think i'm too old/intelligent to risk any injuries.
besides, college football starts this saturday.
maybe.
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did you ever notice that there are no pure athletes that play rugby?
in fact, i'd venture to say most people who play rugby this side of the atlantic are not athletic at all, just big, slow meatheads with little to no hand-eye coordination who couldn't make the football team in high school.
in fact, i'd venture to say most people who play rugby this side of the atlantic are not athletic at all, just big, slow meatheads with little to no hand-eye coordination who couldn't make the football team in high school.
And yes, he was on the football team in high school.
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did you ever notice that there are no pure athletes that play rugby?
in fact, i'd venture to say most people who play rugby this side of the atlantic are not athletic at all, just big, slow meatheads with little to no hand-eye coordination who couldn't make the football team in high school.
and another question, take away the pads, and what makes rugby any more 'manly' than football?
as for playing saturday, idk. i've tried to get bastards from this board to play for years, now i think i'm too old/intelligent to risk any injuries.
besides, college football starts this saturday.
maybe.
in fact, i'd venture to say most people who play rugby this side of the atlantic are not athletic at all, just big, slow meatheads with little to no hand-eye coordination who couldn't make the football team in high school.
and another question, take away the pads, and what makes rugby any more 'manly' than football?
as for playing saturday, idk. i've tried to get bastards from this board to play for years, now i think i'm too old/intelligent to risk any injuries.
besides, college football starts this saturday.
maybe.
Really? Then I'll ask you to come out to practice and see how many "big, slow meatheads with little to no hand-eye coordination who couldn't make the football team in high school" there are out there. Most of the guys I play with are in the 5'10-6'2 range and somewhere between 180-220. There are a lot of pure athletes that play rugby....it's just we don't get the recognition and rugby is just starting to make inroads in high school. As a matter of fact Haloti Ngata, one of the Ravens linemen played rugby in HS.
I daresay it takes a lot more coordination and athletic ability to play rugby then it ever will to play football. Game is 80 minutes long. Average length of time that I will spend per play (between whistle stoppages) is around 1 min 30 seconds. How long does the avg. football play last? 15 seconds on the long side? During that 90 seconds I might have to sprint upwards of 100+ meters up and down the field and about the same laterally while making 2 or 3 tackles (without pads) while pushing as much if not more then a offensive lineman. I might also have to run with the ball as well, lift someone 12 feet in the air and take about 3000lbs of pressure on my back in a scrum.
I'm 6'3 and about 285 and I can run most football players into the ground
Here's a prime example of the uncoordination of rugby players....ever see a fumble in a football game and one of the linemen jumps on it? How many times have you see that ball squirt out again and again.
Most rugby players can pick that ball off the ground at a dead run without missing a step.
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PS - We had 4 football players come out to our first practice.
3 of them were puking 30 minutes in. 1 actually made it through the first practice and we didn't even do any hitting
3 of them were puking 30 minutes in. 1 actually made it through the first practice and we didn't even do any hitting
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