What is the difference between Rugby and U.S. Football?
Both sorts of rugger are contact sports with little protection worn, and where the direction and method of play is determined out on the field. American football is played with great layers of padding, and the players move according to patterns determined by someone on the sideline who shouts out numbers. Also, American football seems to stop every other minute for some reason or other, while rugger only stops every five to seven minutes – for a mass melee known as a scrum. American football seemss concerned with territorial advance, rather like WW I where the taking of the next hundred yards was regarded as a victory. Rugger is more wild and less robotic. These are observations from someone who considers both games rather idiotic, and who didn’t even see one bit of the soccer World Cup – and isn’t even sure who won!
