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Ya-ta Boy · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994

What is this crap of foreigners going on and on about us changing our sports?

I can't help but think it's an inferiority complex.

4 months left · Joined: 07 Feb 2003

flotsam · Joined: 28 Mar 2006

I obviously didn't read all the normal Otis crap, but I do agree with what 120 days, more or less--probably more, left said about the forward pass. That is the reason why when kids in America play football in the lot next door there are no running backs and no linesmen--everybody wants to be a receiver, or at least a wingback(check your playbooks boys).

At the same time, I am going to encourage my kids to play soccer because it will give them the kind of fitness that I think is best for a normal human being(I would like to avoid the possibility of having a 12 year old, 100kg son who begs me to buy more eggs and protein shake powder because coach says he might make second string line if he just bulks up a little more...), but if I happen to have the misfortune of raising an animal who wants to gouge and tear, I will suggest rugby. More action, more flow, more grit and no pads.

It's just a better game. And it's for men, not monsters.

jurassic5 · Joined: 02 Apr 2003 Location: PA

Satori · Joined: 09 Dec 2005 Location: Above it all

otis · Joined: 02 Jun 2006

This is what football taught me:

It taught me that I no longer wanted to play football.

But in my senior year, John Ehret won the state championship. We were ranked in the top ten by Sports Illustrated. The top ten in the nation.

Our quarterback wasn't Kordell Stewart. He played the year after that. It was a dude named Leonard Moon who played in Canada, but later blew his knee out. He came back to Louisiana and opened a deli.

Our coach went on to play a few years for the Saints as a starting quarterback during the NFL strike. After the strike, he was second string to Bobby Hebert. He went on to open a Hooters. He lost it eventually. He had a gambling problem, and when the casinos opened, he'd be at Bally's playing 500 bucks a roll at craps.

Our team was made up of nothing but blacks and white oil-field trash. We had a couple of Vietnamese who rode the bench. And racism was still alive back then. We used to beat the crap out of each other. Blacks and white-trash never back down from each other. Neither group wants to end up on the bottom end of the ladder. So we used to fight tooth and nail.

But we came together as team. It was almost like a movie. Nobody made it big. But we were one of the top ten teams in the nation with a gambling coach who liked to get laid--a lot.

Was there anything special about these days? Not a thing. Like I said, I learned I didn't want to play football. And I learned I wanted to get far away from John Ehret.

Sometimes I still visit the friends. We're all just blue-collar trash. But we've mellowed. We have kids. We're pushing forty.

But I certainly don't miss those days.

Football taught me absolutely nothing--except stupidity and false bravado. But sometimes stupidity and false bravado can carry you in life.

It certainly beats being a liberal vegan.

Satori · Joined: 09 Dec 2005 Location: Above it all

SPINOZA · Joined: 10 Jun 2005 Location: $eoul

flotsam · Joined: 28 Mar 2006

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Dan The Chainsawman · Joined: 05 May 2005

For those of us on the know about the development of rugby in America I can say that it has swelled in popularity over the last 10 to 15 years. Being a 4 and a half year veteran of my University Club team I had the delight to play colleges that were easily 3 to 4 times the size of my own.

For instance: we regularly played University of Washington, Washington State University, and Oregon State University.

In America we ruggers play in our league according to skill, not the size of your school. This allowed us to play well out of our traditional league, whilst out football team ran about their field like a bunch of whiny pansies playing schools we used to laugh at over on our pitch.

Rugby has been growing in popularity, and given 10 more years it will have its own solid niche in the American sports market. God forbiding another WW2, which is where the bulk of the American Rugby talent was slaughtered 50 plus years ago, I suspect it might be another 20 to 30 years before we see the USA as a prime contender for the WC.

sojukettle · Joined: 23 Aug 2005 Location: Not there, HERE!

Recent news on rugby involving America......

Only in America could a business tycoon who specialises in buying sporting franchises propose a 'modified' sevens tournament and turn it into a reality TV show set amid a "high roller" Las Vegas environment.

The tournament will be staged in the Orleans Arena, a 9,500 seat indoor stadium in Nevada, Las Vegas, home to the Las Vegas Wranglers Ice hockey team. And of course the stadium is located in the Orleans Hotel/Casino. The playing field will be reduced to 60 (54.864 metres) yards long by 40 (36.576 metres) yards wide and has been described as being "Race Track Rugby, the ideal format for Sportsbook and paramutual wagering."

The reality TV aspect of the event will be packaged into episode format and is intended to: "take viewers behind the scenes with players so they can witness the real-life dramas that unfold in the glitzy 'high roller' atmosphere of Las Vegas."

Entrepreneur Bill Tatham of Fresno, California, whose family has owned franchises in the NBA, USFL, and WFL, is head of the American Rugby Football League and owner of the rights to all professionalised American sevens events.

Canada will take confidence from the naming of its strongest international test XV in recent years as the 28 man squad prepares for the crucial final World Cup qualifying match against their American archrivals.

The Canadian selectors have been able to call upon 13 overseas-based professional players including new faces to Canada's 2006 campaign, lock Mike James, flanker Jamie Cudmore and prop Kevin Tkachuk who played for the Barbarians last month. Adding an extra edge to the old North American rugby rivalry is the recent Canadian win over the Eagles at the Churchill Cup in June. Canada bucked a trend in recent years of extremely tight scorelines by winning their last showdown 33-18.

Nonetheless the Eagles will be encouraged by the recent return of record point scorer, pivot Mike Hercus who featured strongly in the American's record 91-0 defeat of Barbados earlier this month.

The neighbouring nations played their first of 41 tests to date in 1977; Canada holds the ascendancy boasting a 28 win, 12 loss, 1 draw record