Are American sport a bit too camp for the rest of the world?
Ok, see heres the thing. Rugby and football are very very different. You can say what you want about rugby being a mans version of football, but it isn’t. In rugby, you do not have 250+ pound men running at each other full speed, and the proof is in the injuries. Football players in America are winding up with severe brain trauma when they get older due to the hard nature of the sport. Football injury rate is much much higher then that of rugby even with all the pads. For you to say that rugby is tougher then football is a joke. Football is a sport you will never understand because you feel you must be better then Americans. The breaks in football are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of intelligence. Football is about cracking the other team, not about running at them full speed for 60 minutes straight – but I guess as a “hardcore” rugby player you must not know what planning out your next move is like, because god forbid you stop for a minute and act like pansies by thinking out you
American football is a series of set moves & counter moves. Rugby is a spontaneous free flowing game dominated by ball possession. Both games are very tough, but I think if you need pads, you shouldn’t be playing… The rest of the world doesn’t play any USA games. Hockey is played in Scandinavian countries total population around 20 million people. Baseball is played in some Asian and Caribbean countries at a higher level than the USA http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Baseb… Basket ball otherwise known as netball is generally played by girls outside of the USA. NASCAR is not watched or liked by any other nationalities, whereas F1 is multinational and enjoys the largest viewers of any sport on an annual basis. Food eating competitions are not really sports, more like a joke for obese people to feel better.
