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American Football Is A More Aggressive And Rough Sport Than Rugby
If you look at reviews on the internet about what's the harder sport American Football or Rugby, it usually turns in anger uprising within the players of each sport. Considering when the two sports played each other at American Football they beat the Rugby team by a relatively high score, but the rugby players put up a battle. But at rugby the rugby team thrashed them at rugby and American football players didn't stand a chance. So which sport is more rough and aggressive?
 Keeno  16 Apr 2008 13:26
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They’re both @#^$%@^running around in little matching outfits wrestling about on the field. Boxing is the only real sport all the rest are just dress up parties.
 
 finsch  22 Jul 2008 16:04
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I played rugby and my boys both play football.

I saw one of my rugby teammates get his braces knocked out the bottom of his jaw. And that's the only serious injury I saw in 3 years.

My oldest boy played 2 years of football and I saw a paralysis, a ruptured lung, a bleeding kidney, and a cracked skull... All on different players, of course.

Rugby is more chaotic and player-driven, like basketball. The collisions tend to be collisions, rather than the launching of targeted missiles, which is more what football is like.

I guarantee you that if Jon Lynch put his best hit on Stirling Mortlock, Mortlock would forever respect football players.
 
 OzzieMan  02 Jun 2008 03:24
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 But surely that's only on personal experience? The athletes involved are roughly the same level of fitness, and granted the American footballers run faster on occaision but they generally weigh less.
by  Snipex
 22 Jul 2008 15:45
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American football because the need the padding, if it didn't have it then it probably officially would e=be more aggressive
 
 kitten  31 May 2008 15:44
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American football.
You actually need pads for heaven's sake.
 
 im_trumpet  16 Apr 2008 13:28
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 Well I play Rugby and I have read that an American Football player played for a low division rugby team admits it's more aggressive than American Football.
by  Keeno
 16 Apr 2008 13:32
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How is it legal to break their fingers? Viking435?
 
 dr-gubbey  15 May 2008 09:52
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Oh Dear its the American girlies trying to state their "sport" is tough American Football is about as dangerous as a pillow fight with a four year old girl who doesnt like hitting people!!

I played rugby, without the entire contents of a matress store strapped to every part of my anatomy, I got a few injuries (broken noses were almost a weekly event) but loved every second of it, part of a sport is the fact that you test yourself against other people, not test how good your padding is (its almost like a computer game.....see which technology is best??)
 
 robbie7127  06 May 2008 09:27
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Rugby, they are insane! Also, what is with Americans wearing armour to play football?
Aussie Rules is just as violent as Gridiron and we don't wear anything but our guernsey, shorts and hearts on our sleeves.
 
 nickwhan  03 May 2008 13:46
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No it is not you can only tackle people in rugby you can break peoples fingers and its legal
 
 viking435  16 Apr 2008 18:04
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I'd say Rugby. They wear very little in the way of protection. Admittedly I've seen players in American Football get hurt, but in Rugby it's FAR more common, and the injuries seem to usually be more serious.
 
 Snipex  16 Apr 2008 15:20
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Rugby. They don't play the game wearing a suit of armour.
 
 StBalders  16 Apr 2008 14:17
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