Thread: Why our football is better than their football
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Old 07-13-2006, 01:12 PM   #31 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Tom Dogg
Most of the big hits that you see in a football game would be illegal in rugby. The contact in rugby hurts (a lot), but the contact in football is more "jarring'.
Yeah, I can see why that would be. In Rugby, you actually have to bring the player to the ground, but you can just run into your opposition at the equivalent speed of a freight train to tackle in football.

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