facepie wrote:Wolf359 wrote:I don't agree - you have to realise that they are now completely different games - and the tackling in US Football is significantly different, and more vicious.
how is it done differently?
the aim of a tackle is to bring someone down to the ground so... ??
Yes, the aim is the same, but how and when the tackles are conducted are significantly different - as is off the ball tackling. In Rugby you are not allowed to tackle as high as what US footballers are - or with as many parts of your own body. You really need to watch it closely, or to have played both games (which I have - a lot) to understand it, but simply, you are not allowed to tackle in rugby as viciously as you are in US Football - diving into an opponents back head first for example.
There are a lot of good videos on YouTube showing how hard/vicious tackling in US Football can be - this is a good one for starters:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PpXXnpnk-cInterestingly, it shows a few Football (Soccer) 'tackles' (a term I use loosely) at the start as contrast, and while I love Football (Soccer) more than I do US Football, I hate the way that many players in the game try to con the referee and act like a bunch of pansies!
LiQuiD wrote:football is the real one peeps. american football is jus a bunch of dudes, putting on a bunch of armour to play rugby
i think the breaks in american football are made as they are solely for advertising. basing a sport around adverts sucks royally.
we need to see the top nfl team play the top rugby team in both their games. id pay mad cash to see that
Yes, Football (Soccer) is the original - but your first comment does nothing except show your apparent ignorance of the US game - it bears little resemblance to rugby, and hasn't done for 100 hundred years.
You are correct about the breaks though! When the US last held the Football World Cup, we heard all of these horror stories about how they wanted to create more advertising time - and so the US organisers supposedly put forward a suggestion for four 22.5 minute quarters. There was, allegedly, even a suggestion from the US organisers to create scoring zones so that goals would count for different points from different areas of the pitch!