Originally Posted by
NFCstang
Did you know that football came from rugby because in the late 1890s/early 1900s too many people were dying during rugby games. They built football around it to make it "safer". If you want to see what it's like to play rugby, go to YouTube and search for rugby hits.
As far as the skill positions....the person that plays "quarterback" in rugby, called the flyhalf, has to make the same decisions that a normal quarterback does except he has to do it at speed with no blockers and every other position on the rugby field (15 per side) has to make those same decisons at some point in the game since we all have to handle the ball
I welcome you to come out to a game (there's one on the 22nd;
http://www.bluesrugby.org/ncbrfc/bluschf.html) and check it out.
i'll see if i can make it, seriously.
i'm just saying. for people who play rugby, i always hear 'football is such a pussy sport'... so i always assumed that the main attraction of rugby was that it was far more physical than football. but let's see here... i'm 6' 180, i have more interest in catching the ball and AVOIDING tacklers than actually tackling and being tackled.
besides, honestly... how many people on your roster can crack a sub-4.5 forty yard dash and have more than a 32" vertical leap? i'm sure there might be some... but that's about the absolute minimum requirements to play a skill position (other than quarterback) on a collegiate level. that's where i was going with the 'pure athletes' comment.
(and for the folk like jimmy who will insist on attempting to 'call me out', no i highly doubt i could run those times right now in the current shape i'm in. i'm just simply stating them for reference's sake.)
in hindsight i suppose i should have left your comment alone like everyone else did, but boredom got the best of me.
edit: on topic- can you move the game any closer to virginia beach? there's a great field right off independence blvd by haygood, right next to the jenro's shopping center. i'll definitely show up if some people can agree to play out there.