They missed out the most important "law" (for Americans read "rule") in Rugby Union - the referee's word or decision is final and cannot be disputed. Only the team captains are permitted to talk to the referee unless the referee asks to talk to one other of the players
Yh its interesting as well that when it comes to close decisions and they use VAR unless there is conclusive evidence either way the refs original decision at the time takes preference.
FYI. There are 110 nations in the Rugby Union world rankings. Currently, 1st. South Africa. 2nd New Zealand. 3rd England. The USA comes in at a very creditable 16th.
@@spitsfreeman and also (if meaning American Football) theres no separate offence and defence (sorry, I cannot spell those words with the S) teams, whatever number you play, you can find yourself out of position and have to bring the goods.
There are a few compilations of Rugby Referees that you could react to, especially Nigel Owen. Have a look at "10 Minutes of Nigel Owens being Nigel Owens | The Referee Grand Master" He's a bit of a Rugby hero.
@@sirderam1Nfl as u call it come from canadian football(1st played in canada, 10 years later a american college adapted the sport and changed some rules to make the first "amercian football" game.
I prefer rugby to football and found rugby (albeit touch rugby which isn't so dangerous) much more fun to play. I think Rugby is most popular in New Zealand, Samoa and Australia, as well as in the countries that take part in the Six Nations (Scotland, Wales, England, Ireland, France and Italy)
The one important rule that is missed here that you really need to have some idea about to understand what is going on is the off-side rule. This is quite complex, but, in essence you cannot take part in play if you are in front of the ball in terms of your side's direction of play. For example, although you can kick the ball forwards, the catcher cannot be in front of the ball when it is kicked, so you cannot simply have a team mate waiting up front for you to kick it to them. Similarly in a ruck or maul you cannot join it from in front of the ball. The rucks and mauls are, ideally, played such that the opposition cannot get to the ball without being offside. You will often see the ball lying on the ground loose at the back of a ruck with a player, usually the scrum half, waiting for his team mates to get into position for the next play . before he picks it up and passes it. The opposition cannot simply come round and pick up the ball because that would put them offside.
I disagree sir. When the boy at rugby college picked up the football, he should have been sent off. End of. Bashing into each other with cauliflower ears is a sport for simple people, watched by simple people.
The main difference between rugby and NFL is that the 80 mins of gameplay is FULL ON and non stop. It is a continuously moving game, very interesting to watch.
Rugby is said to have originated at Rugby School in Warwickshire, England, in 1823 when during a game of football, William Webb Ellis decided to pick up a ball and go with it. Although there is very little evidence to support this theory, the Rugby World Cup Trophy is now named after William Webb Ellis.
Sadly apocryphal; when William Webb attended Rugby there was no formal rules of football to rail against, and the pupils agreed the rules to be played by before matches - It is still possible that William Webb was the first person in that system to suggest a form of rules resembling rugby, of course, and Rugby school is one of the earliest places the game was played.
There never used to be any standardised rules for football. Rugby School wrote a set of rules, as did Eton, Cambridge Uni, and others. When they all finally sat down to create the Laws of the Game (and in doing so creating association football and the Football Association), a group didn't like the rules about handling the ball and the hoo haa about banning kicking shins. Law 6 of an early draft of the Laws of the Game is more rugby than offside: "A player shall be out of play immediately he is in front of the ball, and must return behind the ball as soon as possible. If the ball is kicked past a player by his own side, he shall not touch or kick it or advance until one of the other side has first kicked it or one of his own side on a level with or in front of him has been able to kick it."
its not actually true about picking the ball up. Considering at the time, handling was generally a thing in most forms of football, and the Rugby style of the game actually came first. Rugby was one of the first to publish the rules of their game. The Cambridge rules came later, which were the basis for the rules for Association Football, but even early rules for Association Football including handling and catching the ball
Mrs Innocent American was correct the conversion is pretty much like the extra point in Gridiron. Except you get two for it. The angle for the kick depends where the Try is scored. You will see players trying to place the ball between the posts for a Try then the kick would be head on score in the corner and the conversions is kicked pretty much from the touchline. The clock will generally run continuously though may be stopped if there is an extended break in play . And yes we do have different words for things both sides of the Atlantic but a Wedgie is the same both sides.
FYI: There currently an incredibly exciting and history tour ongoing in South Africa by The British & Irish Lions. The Lions is steeped in honour and history. They only tour once every 4 yrs and rotate the destination between S Africa, Australia and N Zealand. I would suggest that you read up on the background and history of The Lions, so that you get an understanding of the prestige, for both touring Lions and their hosts...once every 4 yrs usually makes it a once in a career chance for all players.
Funny that every 12 years Lions tour south Africa and every 12 years South Africa wins the world cup. So the lions tour the strongest SA teams when they are in their prime.
6:55...Sorry to reign on your parade guys but everything in Rugby is very much of an English origin including the 'Scrum' (which is where your football gets it's 'Line of Scrimmage' from). A lot of the stuff in Rugby is very similar to the stuff in American Football as you've just found out. So just to reiterate: A)- A Try (5pts) is like a Touchdown (6pts). B)- A Conversion (2pts) is like a PAT (1pt). C)- A Drop Goal (3pts) is like a Field Goal (3pts). D)- A Scrum is like the Line of Scrimmage (but not really). E)- The 8 Forwards are like your Linesmen. F)- The 7 Backs are like your back field players. G)- The Front Row/Props & Hookers (nos 1, 2 & 3) are like your Centre and Guards. H)- The Second Row/Locks (nos 4 & 5) are like you Ends. I)- The Flankers/Loose/No8 Forwards (nos 6, 7 & 8) are like your Linebackers. J)- The Halfbacks (nos 9 & 10) are both thematically similar to your Quaterback. K)- The Wing Three-quarters (nos 11 & 14) are like your Wide Receivers. L)- The Centre Three-quarters (nos 12 & 13) are like your Running Backs. Finally... M)- The Fullback (no 15) is like your Fullbacks and Safeties. I hope this is confusing as it certainly confuses a lot of Brits too. Love and Best Wishes from the UK. 🥰🥰🥰
Football (and rugby) was originally like the Atherstone Ball Game from 11th century. This was developed in elite English Public schools from the 16th century Winchester College Football, Eton Wall Game, Harrow Football and Rugby Football which are all still played at the respective schools. The Rugby school version of the game was then popularised and codified in 19th century into Rugby Union and Rugby League. Rugby League being the closest to American Football.
I've been told that American football developed from union, but league, which was much later, developed from American football. No idea whether that's actually true or not.
@@_starfiend Both Rugby League and American Football developed from Rugby Union around the same time but in very different ways. Rugby League was developed in 1895 when Northern clubs broke away and wanted the game to be professional, reducing the number of players and altering the rules to make it easier for spectators to follow. From American Football Hall of Fame 'On November 6, 1869, Rutgers and Princeton played what was billed as the first college soccer football game. During the next seven years, rugby gained favor with the major eastern schools over soccer. However, it wasn't until the 1880s that a great rugby player from Yale, Walter Camp, pioneered rules changes that transformed rugby into the new game of American Football.'
Would recommend watching the British and Irish Lions v South Africa , the lions tour every 4 years and they are the best players from England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland so it’s a bit of a special occasion
Was born in Rugby, Warwickshire (midlands). A small(ish) market town pretty much in the center of England, where the game was invented. No doubt there were similar games to it from way back, but it was codified at Rugby School after it's alleged a Rugby School boy named William Webb-Ellis picked up a Football and ran with it. There s a statue of him outside Rugby School and a plaque was erected on one of it's outer walls in 1895 reading - _THIS STONE_ _COMMEMORATES THE EXPLOIT OF_ _WILLIAM WEBB ELLIS_ _WHO WITH A FINE DISREGARD FOR THE RULES OF FOOTBALL_ _AS PLAYED IN HIS TIME_ _FIRST TOOK THE BALL IN HIS ARMS AND RAN WITH IT_ _THUS ORIGINATING THE DISTINCTIVE FEATURE OF_ _THE RUGBY GAME_ _A.D. 1823._ Soon after that Rugby League split from the original Rugby Union.
We've heard of wedgies. It wasn't something boys did to each other when I was at junior school. We got chinese burns and dead legs instead, and birthday bumps, and three punches on the arm for farting. Normal stuff. The playground pre-rugby practise game played by small boys was British Bulldogs, which was trying to run across the playground without being tackled to the ground by all the other boys playing, but with no ball involved. Oh, and if anyone fell over in the hallway or just in the middle of playing some other game (except football - the kicking kind), other boys had the right to jump on top of you while shouting "bundle!"* Which is vaguely rugby related, in a way. *pronounced bundoo, with a silent 'l', at least down in south London.
Most popular in New Zealand - best in the world, second is Wales as it's our national sport - though soccer is well loved too. and we some really good players - but we only have 3.5 million people whereas England has 66m people and more clubs than anyone else in the world. Other significant RU teams are Australia, South Africa, France, Italy, Canada, tonga and south sea islanders etc - though better at rugby sevens. The US Eagles aren't bad and given your population could be the best in the world. A few yanks played form y team 'Cardiff' in Wales and they were great and I think they both settled here.
I seem to remember it was the other way around?? Rugby, played by thugs for gentlemen; football, played by gentlemen for thugs. Definitely agree on the for side, rugby fans are gentlemen (and women), football fans are thugs. Not quite so sure on the players, lol. Some of the rugby players were most definitely gentleman, some of the football players were most definitely lawn fairies. Lol! The local ground where I used to live, hosteb both football and rugby matches. The smallest rugby gate in ten years, was bigger than the biggest football gate. Alcohol was served in the ground during rugby matches, but wasn't served anywhere within a mile during football matches. Football matches always had at least three times as many police, and more first-aiders. (I was a first-aider at both!)
Would love to see you react to a Rugby match Rugby is very popular, it’s just that football is so popular in comparison everywhere it may look unpopular, it was the main sport played at my ‘high school’
Rugby is the biggest threat to NFL in the USA. The biggest followers and converts to Rugby are those from an NFL background, particularly those who recognise that the NFL is overly and disrespectfully commercialized. If Rugby gets real traction in the USA NFL is doomed! Matches to watch are 2019 Six Nations England vs Scotland where England took a huge lead only for Scotland to come back to lead, the game ending in an unlikely and unusual draw; 2021 France vs Scotland where against all odds Scotland beat France in the final minutes to deny France the title and hand the title to Wales; and Japan vs South Africa in the Rugby World Cup 2015 where again against the odds and in a historical upset, Japan beat South Africa. Also you might check out the difference between Rugby League and Rugby Union, Rugby League being the smaller brother but conversely being more like NFL by having a fixed tackle limit before posession changes, a bit like downs in NFL; where Rugby Union has no such limitation.
Rugby is a fast and furious game. The players are ultra fit. Some are huge men depending on the position you play. No padding. Very physical. Great skills. If you like NFL I'm sure you will like rugby.
I was growing up with football, but for around 10 years or so I learned more about Rugby and I really love the game! Unfortunately Rugby isn’t that big here in Germany. But that gives me the freedom to choose any team to cheer for. 😜
If 'in touch' usually the clock will continue but often on the ref's permission, sub's can come on. serious injuries can be treated to. Minor injuries are treated while the game goes on, by physio/medics running on. If head injury is spotted the game is immediately stopped. Occasionally head injuries are not spotted by officials, BUT a neutral doctor will intervene to tell the ref needs a player to go off for HIA (Head Injury Assessment) which i think is either 10/15 mins.
A good introduction to rugby would be the recent Bristol Bears v Quins 19/6/2021 and Exeter Chiefs v Quins 26/6 two of the best games you will ever see. Love your videos!
Season is always on internationals at the moment US just played lol the Irish, reminder it’s played in both northern and Southern Hemisphere winter sport in both
A team can keep the ball the whole game in terms of "Make it take it". If you score, the other team kicks the ball to you. In American football, if you score, you kick to the other team.
GB and Irish Lions are currently touring. Well worth looking out for that. The film Invictus will give you an idea of how important the sport of rugby union is to South Africa, too. Remember to check out rugby league as well. I love both codes of rugby but union usually overshadows league when it comes media attention. Two very independent and very popular sports that share a common history.
Cricket is a British sport only the Netherlands is the only Europen country that play cricket and they’re not full ICC member .I’m English-British NOT Europen.
The reason it is called a try is because originally the only thing it allowed you is a 'TRY' at goal which was the only way to score points. Times have moved on but the name remains...
The domestic season in Europe starts in November. At the moment though the British & Irish Lions (a team made up of players from England, Scotland, Wales & Ireland)are currently touring South Africa and will play 3 test (international) matches there. This is a big deal as the Lions only tour once every 4 years and this alternates between South Africa, NZ and Australia, so each of these countries is only visited once every 12 years
Football came first. Then someone picked up the ball and ran with it and Rugby Football was invented. Americans bastardized rugby and the result was American Football. Same with the Aussies and Aussi Rules football.
The clock keeps running unless the ref calls time off. The ref usually calls time off for severe injury or head knocks, when he needs to talk to the team captains/penalized players, and when fights break out, or he is checking the replay with the Television Match Official (TMO) for a possible call he missed.
Hello Ethan and today's star turn Mrs. American. I commented on the north south divide video about the north of England having given rise to the alternative to this version, namely Rugby League. Rugby League is more popular in Australia though Union is in New Zealand and especially in South Africa too. It is the middle of the Super League season as it switched to summer in UK and as I mentioned in a football comment it is the Challenge Cup Final at Wembley this weekend. "Wife" would love it I am sure (my girlfriend does) and it is not unlike NFL without pads, helmets and forward passes. Another comment mentioned where to look at how the two versions differ. Watching this weekend? Go on. Think of the Mrs.
Ethan, Thank you for the like and the reply. Here is a copy of a comment to someone in Memphis a bit back in case you find of interest - Regarding concussions please see Google for Rob Burrow, Stephen Darby and Doddie Weir. I used to see Rob each year when I collected for charity. This came out of going to keep an eye on ladies like the ones in your lake district video, who got too old to go themselves. The first time I met him I had put the radio on that morning and up came Eamon Holmes talking to him on the radio, which was strange as I was just thinking I knew a neighbour of his through work, though I lived 20 miles away. I said when I met him that I reckoned his team would be champions as it was so strange how the radio had him on when I started listening. They did win the title. Note I was a fan of their biggest rivals. It is so sad to see pictures of Rob now, but also inspiring how he has dealt with it. Rugby and our football have taken steps to protect players now. 3 weeks ago
I've been to Rugby school where they definitely say they invented the game. First time we played it (aged 13) a schoolmate broke his arm. It's certainly aggressive and dangerous.
American Footbal is based upon Rugby Union rules, stuff like the pads etc got added in the latter part of the 1800s. Next you need to give the rules of Rugby League a viewing, the same channel also does an explanation vid. Lastly, I'm sure you'll get a lot of Rugby Hits Till I Collapse reaction requests, so best to get it out of the way as soon as!
The worlds fastest field sport is the Irish game Hurling. The ball is pronounce Slitter or Shlitter (depending on the accent) th-cam.com/video/biFcgUB98ns/w-d-xo.html
Rugby was invented in England at Rugby school. 1823 Rugby Union is massive in England and the UK. thereafter Rugby League. Invented to allow players the ability to play and get paid 1895.
Rugby league split due to worries about injury in the scum, rucks and mauls, because Rugby Union has always been the domain of the rich southern toffs and the working class northerners could not afford to take the time off work due to injury. Rugby league is closer to grid iron so more Americans seem to prefer it
Most of the world's most played sports on earth were created in the UK. Tennis: France/ England. Created in 1437. Golf: Scotland. Created in 1457. Rugby: England. Created in 1823. Football: England. Created in 1820. Cricket: England. Created in 1597. Snooker: India / England. Created in 1875. Darts: England. Created in 1896. Badminton: India / England Created in 1873. Table Tennis: England Created in 1902. Rounders: England Created in 1744. Created means with its earliest recorded rules created and or known to be played first time with another team or referenced in historical footnotes as a game played. Sports that were taken from England and converted into a US version. Rugby and Football: American Football created in 1869 Cricket and Rounders: Baseball created in 1845 As the British took their games with them to new colonies that means the natives would have been taught the games too. So the British created the games and exported them world wide with colonialism. This is why these sports are MORE popular than US created sports.
Rugby Union is the dominant sport in New Zealand, and Wales - plus the Pacific Island nations. It’s very big in other countries - like South Africa, England and France - but just not as big as football. Given those nations have much larger populations they are able to consistently compete at the highest level. In Australia it’s only popular in certain areas - Rugby League is bigger there generally. Cricket and Aussie Rules are their most important sports. Similarly, in most of Northern England, League is bigger than Union.
Rugby I'd a game for thugs, played by gentlemen. We have Northern hemisphere and southern hemisphere teams. Being in the North, we have the 6 nations tournament every spring, and we currently having a couple of summer matches, albeit with a much reduced number of spectators. Wales🏴 v argentina 🇦🇷 this Saturday
@@midwestamericans3806 ...just Google the HSBC Rugby 7's World Series and check out 2019 before the pandemic , you will be surprised where the US came ...it's mainly an East Coast Sport , like football (soccer) is mainly west and southern , but "yes" it's the fastest growing sport in the US 👍
NFL vs rugby, rugby is harder hitting and way better to watch. Baseball vs cricket, Baseball is some much better. Football (soccer) is real football. As a english person rugby is awesome to watch
The Lions - a touring side of the best English, Welsh, Scots and Irish - are on tour in South Africa right now. The tour is a bit I’ll starred what with COVID, but when the tests - South Africa v. Lions start, they’ll be titanic clashes! Season kicks off, like the NFL, in September but runs through to May/early June. Watch out for the ‘autumn internationals’ (self explanatory) and the ‘Six Nations’ tournament in February/March. They’re the big ones!
I prefer Rugby as Football is boring and too much diving and pretending they were pole-axed. Rugby is a real sport, even womens Rugby is hard played and fun to watch. Best Rugby matches to watch (Union wise) maybe the Six Nations between England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, France and Italy might be a good start. You will have to wait for the new year though for that. Then there's the Rugby Union World Cup 2023, although it is the Rugby League version of the World Cup later this year which England are hosting. It is between the 23rd October-27th November 2021. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Rugby_League_World_Cup As for the best teams, Australia, New Zealand (nicknamed the All Blacks as they wear all black), England and South Africa I would say are always the favourites. Other teams on their day though can give even the best a run for their money. If you want to see who I think is the best player of all time, look at Jonah Lomu. He was a All Black player who died at the age of 40, he was 6ft 5in, 265Ibs and could run 100m in 11.2 seconds. th-cam.com/video/hWHlCDKebMY/w-d-xo.html
2:56 Its nowhere near "opposite". In NFL you are allowed one forward pass, all the rest have to be backwards/lateral just like Rugby 3:46 No, as she said, its an extra points kick. A penalty kick is the equivalent of a field goal. Drop Goals are still legal in NFL too btw, just extremely rare. 5:44 She's right, yet again lol. It passes back and forth just as often in Rugby than in NFL, more so in fact. 6:44 The Scrum, like all the other set pieces of Rugby - Ruck, Maul, Line Out etc - is a form of contested snap, with the line of scrimmage/offside line running through it. Well, a bit behind actually; there are a bunch of rules about where dudes need to be and cannot be for any of these set pieces, just like the snap in NFL. Generally, she gets it: Rugby and NFL are literally the same sport, left to their own for a century or so.
The British Lions are currently touring in South Africa, so might be available for you to view. The British Lions is a team composed of Players from the English, Irish, Scottish and Welsh Teams. New Zealand ( known as the All Blacks because of their playing strip) is probably the team that dominates World Rugby. England played the US on the 4th of July, winning 43 / 29 and they played Canada on the 10th, beating them 70 / 14. The Welsh tend to consider Rugby as their National Game, Rugby and Cricket are the Major International sports of New Zealand, Australia and South Africa, oh and of course they always raise their game when the play England (as do most teams in any sport, as England / Britain, has historically either ruled over them or beaten them in battle). The best International competition the Northern Hemisphere is the 6 Nations, played between England, France, Ireland, Italy, Scotland & Wales. I think the major difference between football and Rugby is that Rugby is about the quality of the game, football is all about the result.
The referee only stops the clock if a player is injured and needs medical care or something like that. And the match ends when the clock marks 80:00 and the game stops, BUT it can't be for a foul. It could be a knock on, out of bounds or a team scores. If it doesn't happen, the game continues. A match between France and Ireland had 20 minutes of "extra time" until France scored a try. And it's very curious that americans don't know the story of football. Rugby Football (that's its real name) came to the USA about 1850. East coast colleges began to use the Rugby rules to play their football matches (Harvard wanted to use the Cambridge rules, the ancient soccer, what they were the only ones). At that moment football and rugby were exactly de same. In 1870 Walter Camp began to "invent" football: only 11 players, no scrums, no lineouts, no rucks... only scrimmages and downs. And no, forward pass wasn't allowed. It came in the XXth century.
Probably the biggest difference between Rugby and NFL is that, in Rugby, you are only allowed to tackle the player with the ball. The concept of "blockers" doesn't exist.
I'm sorry, but American Football is far less popular than Rugby, which is played across the globe. Don't jupm to conclusions, Sir, something you do quite a lot. Nobody is interested much in AF outside of the USA. AF keeps on stopping especially for adverts. Pitiful. Also, the forward pass is allowed to break a deadlock which is an inescapable characteristic of the game. When you have to measure achievement in terms of 'yardage' run, you know it's a game more suited to statisticians than men.
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Interesting fact, Rugby was invented in the northern hemisphere but the only team to win a world cup in the northern hemisphere is England. The southern hemisphere have dominated the world cups, New Zealand holding 3, South Africa holding 3 and Australia holding 2.
You do realise that American football was made using Rugby League rules ie. Same points, same basic play etc. English football came first it is an ancient (centuries old) game, apparent during a football game in the university of Rugby Town (up North ) in the middle of the 1800 when supposedly a student called Webb Ellis (he’s got a statue and everything) got fed up with kicking the ball and picked up the ball and ran with it to the goal post, thus the game of Rugby Union was invented. The rules were made slowly over the years. It has always been a gentlemanly sport ever since, everyone (both teams) gets fed and drunk together after the match. That is the forerunner to the games Rugby League and American Football (I supposed to that English football is why the American who chopped up Rugby League to make your football called it football and the rules were twisted slightly to make it a hell of a lot more lucrative and not just a good game. That’s why it’s not just a tiring game of two forty minute halves. In the Uk and everywhere else in the world children start to play rugby at about 6 or 7 with ribbons loosely tied to there belts behind to simulate the tackle. And then they can start playing tackling rugby when they move on to secondary school. If they like it they can join a village Rugby club which is also a social club too with bars and dancing. The skills are passed on in this way through the amateur game right up the local county league ladders to the professional team game schools all the big teams have. This is now inclusive of boys and girls rugby. Hope you learned a bit about Rugby Union and not Rugby League they are both similar but not the same game. Cheers both.
Rugby is a massive international sport. No disrespect but the NFL although awesome is a novelty to us apart from being complicated-to me anyway lol- International rugby games are wonderful experiences, and patriotic-but not to the point of arrogance-. However there are some very excellent young American players in the MLR comp. The U.S Eagles are gaining great respect.
Rugby is big in the UK, but not as big as football, Rugby League is bigger than Rugby Union in Australia (probably the only country where this is so) Rugby in South Africa is a complicated thing - it gets political. I would say the place where it is biggest is probably New Zealand, where it is pretty much the religion.
Rugby is increasing in popularity and quality in North America. USA and Canada have decent (and improving) national sides, especially in sevens (a shorter game with 7 players instead of 15). The MLR has also been gaining more and more attention, so you will be able to find a more local league or team to follow too.
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They missed out the most important "law" (for Americans read "rule") in Rugby Union - the referee's word or decision is final and cannot be disputed. Only the team captains are permitted to talk to the referee unless the referee asks to talk to one other of the players
yeah ive played matches where someone mouthed of to the ref and got sent off for not being the captain
They should watch the 10 minutes of Nigel Owens being Nigel Owens video
@@mwwoggy I agree, but to get the most out of it you have to know about Nigel Owens as a person.
Unless your name is Dan Biggar, I guess...
Yh its interesting as well that when it comes to close decisions and they use VAR unless there is conclusive evidence either way the refs original decision at the time takes preference.
Wales do play it too ;) - And definitely Rugby over Football
"It's only a broken neck. Walk it off!"
FYI. There are 110 nations in the Rugby Union world rankings. Currently, 1st. South Africa. 2nd New Zealand. 3rd England. The USA comes in at a very creditable 16th.
Lol Tonga 🇹🇴 is rated above USA and they got Beaten by NZ 102 to nil
@@paulgdunsford7469 It wasn’t the real Tonga team, it was limited to NZ-based players, who were mostly kids.
@@paulgdunsford7469 They'd still great the US though!!!
@@mattpotter8725 if you say so 71 10
@@paulgdunsford7469 what about the England USA match on the 4th July? 43-29 to England and they fielded 12 first timers
It may only be 80 minutes, but stats have shown that we run approximately 6-8 miles in that time.
That is a lot! Right up there with football.
@@midwestamericans3806 True, but with football (if you mean soccer) you don't have 15 people trying to batter you! :)
(And if you meant american football then rugby players get next to no rest in comparison)
@@spitsfreeman tell me about it, my personal best, back in my younger egg chasing days was 3 games back to back. That would kill me now.
@@spitsfreeman and also (if meaning American Football) theres no separate offence and defence (sorry, I cannot spell those words with the S) teams, whatever number you play, you can find yourself out of position and have to bring the goods.
Yes, we know what a wedgie is.
Sorry about that.
@@paulmidsussex3409 , Nothing to apologise for.
There are a few compilations of Rugby Referees that you could react to, especially Nigel Owen. Have a look at "10 Minutes of Nigel Owens being Nigel Owens | The Referee Grand Master" He's a bit of a Rugby hero.
Definitely agree! Nigel is a legend. 👍
Agreed. He always used to let the game flow, unlike the French referees who like to over-manage the matches.
Every one new to watching Rugby needs to watch Nigel!
rugby is A LOT older than the NFL, We have pubs older than the country of america LOL. all of these sports have existed for MANY years
NFL is a daughter sport of rugby. NFL was developed from rugby.
NFL is basically just a watered down version of rugby
@@sirderam1Nfl as u call it come from canadian football(1st played in canada, 10 years later a american college adapted the sport and changed some rules to make the first "amercian football" game.
@@JoaoPedroTiago yes and the Canadian came from ??? England
I prefer rugby to football and found rugby (albeit touch rugby which isn't so dangerous) much more fun to play. I think Rugby is most popular in New Zealand, Samoa and Australia, as well as in the countries that take part in the Six Nations (Scotland, Wales, England, Ireland, France and Italy)
You forgot rugby mad South Africa and the pumas (Argentina) from your list. Namibia, Zimbabwe, Japan, Romania, Fiji and Tonga also deserve a mention.
@@grapeman63 and don't forget Georgia(the country not the state for our American friends)
@@chunkydembry5477 Yeah, I know. I also forgot Canada 🇨🇦.
@@grapeman63 I'm not an avid fan but I can't believe I forgot South Africa in particular!
Rugby is huge in England, it's just dwarfed and overshadowed by football.
I’m a Leeds Rhinos fan all the way, they’re in the Rugby League Super League!
@@antonthompson7838 No one cares about rugby league
Sad cus rugby is more fun to watch and play
The one important rule that is missed here that you really need to have some idea about to understand what is going on is the off-side rule. This is quite complex, but, in essence you cannot take part in play if you are in front of the ball in terms of your side's direction of play. For example, although you can kick the ball forwards, the catcher cannot be in front of the ball when it is kicked, so you cannot simply have a team mate waiting up front for you to kick it to them. Similarly in a ruck or maul you cannot join it from in front of the ball. The rucks and mauls are, ideally, played such that the opposition cannot get to the ball without being offside. You will often see the ball lying on the ground loose at the back of a ruck with a player, usually the scrum half, waiting for his team mates to get into position for the next play . before he picks it up and passes it. The opposition cannot simply come round and pick up the ball because that would put them offside.
Thanks for sharing!
Half Incorrect on the conversion part, it can be from any distance of the kickers choice but it has to be in line from where the try was scored.
I suppose it was just a poor choice of words: it's any distance above 20 m, you can put the ball for the kick inside the 20 m line.
Rugby is the best and most respectful sport on the planet
I disagree sir.
When the boy at rugby college picked up the football, he should have been sent off. End of.
Bashing into each other with cauliflower ears is a sport for simple people, watched by simple people.
@@svenred6eard757 After watching the Euro 2020 final I'll stick to my simple sport, ta 🤣
The main difference between rugby and NFL is that the 80 mins of gameplay is FULL ON and non stop. It is a continuously moving game, very interesting to watch.
Rugby is said to have originated at Rugby School in Warwickshire, England, in 1823 when during a game of football, William Webb Ellis decided to pick up a ball and go with it. Although there is very little evidence to support this theory, the Rugby World Cup Trophy is now named after William Webb Ellis.
It likely evolved from village football where there was lots of contact
Sadly apocryphal; when William Webb attended Rugby there was no formal rules of football to rail against, and the pupils agreed the rules to be played by before matches - It is still possible that William Webb was the first person in that system to suggest a form of rules resembling rugby, of course, and Rugby school is one of the earliest places the game was played.
There never used to be any standardised rules for football. Rugby School wrote a set of rules, as did Eton, Cambridge Uni, and others. When they all finally sat down to create the Laws of the Game (and in doing so creating association football and the Football Association), a group didn't like the rules about handling the ball and the hoo haa about banning kicking shins.
Law 6 of an early draft of the Laws of the Game is more rugby than offside: "A player shall be out of play immediately he is in front of the ball, and must return behind the ball as soon as possible. If the ball is kicked past a player by his own side, he shall not touch or kick it or advance until one of the other side has first kicked it or one of his own side on a level with or in front of him has been able to kick it."
Association football is said to have originated at Eton School at the same time.
its not actually true about picking the ball up. Considering at the time, handling was generally a thing in most forms of football, and the Rugby style of the game actually came first. Rugby was one of the first to publish the rules of their game. The Cambridge rules came later, which were the basis for the rules for Association Football, but even early rules for Association Football including handling and catching the ball
The clock can be stopped by the ref but is usually only done so for serious injuries or reviewing a score or potential red card
a Try is worth 5 points and he stated that right away after explaining what a Try was, you guys missed it when you were talking.
Yea should've backed the video up.
Mrs Innocent American was correct the conversion is pretty much like the extra point in Gridiron. Except you get two for it. The angle for the kick depends where the Try is scored. You will see players trying to place the ball between the posts for a Try then the kick would be head on score in the corner and the conversions is kicked pretty much from the touchline. The clock will generally run continuously though may be stopped if there is an extended break in play . And yes we do have different words for things both sides of the Atlantic but a Wedgie is the same both sides.
Haven't the U.S. got a national rugby team?
Yes they have, they played against England and Ireland in the last 2 weeks (losing both).
Wife, you definitely would love Rugby. Btw a try is worth 5 points, and yes we understand wedgie here in the UK.
You should check out Rugby 6 Nations
Rule number 1.No cry babies allowed in this game. 👍🏻
Clock keeps going it only stops for injury 😬
FYI: There currently an incredibly exciting and history tour ongoing in South Africa by The British & Irish Lions.
The Lions is steeped in honour and history. They only tour once every 4 yrs and rotate the destination between S Africa, Australia and N Zealand.
I would suggest that you read up on the background and history of The Lions, so that you get an understanding of the prestige, for both touring Lions and their hosts...once every 4 yrs usually makes it a once in a career chance for all players.
Funny that every 12 years Lions tour south Africa and every 12 years South Africa wins the world cup. So the lions tour the strongest SA teams when they are in their prime.
@@Just_JasonZA We should always hope to play the best....and Australia 😉
@@joncarter9041 funniest thing I've ever heard lols
6:55...Sorry to reign on your parade guys but everything in Rugby is very much of an English origin including the 'Scrum' (which is where your football gets it's 'Line of Scrimmage' from). A lot of the stuff in Rugby is very similar to the stuff in American Football as you've just found out. So just to reiterate:
A)- A Try (5pts) is like a Touchdown (6pts).
B)- A Conversion (2pts) is like a PAT (1pt).
C)- A Drop Goal (3pts) is like a Field Goal (3pts).
D)- A Scrum is like the Line of Scrimmage (but not really).
E)- The 8 Forwards are like your Linesmen.
F)- The 7 Backs are like your back field players.
G)- The Front Row/Props & Hookers (nos 1, 2 & 3) are like your Centre and Guards.
H)- The Second Row/Locks (nos 4 & 5) are like you Ends.
I)- The Flankers/Loose/No8 Forwards (nos 6, 7 & 8) are like your Linebackers.
J)- The Halfbacks (nos 9 & 10) are both thematically similar to your Quaterback.
K)- The Wing Three-quarters (nos 11 & 14) are like your Wide Receivers.
L)- The Centre Three-quarters (nos 12 & 13) are like your Running Backs.
Finally...
M)- The Fullback (no 15) is like your Fullbacks and Safeties.
I hope this is confusing as it certainly confuses a lot of Brits too.
Love and Best Wishes from the UK.
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Football (and rugby) was originally like the Atherstone Ball Game from 11th century. This was developed in elite English Public schools from the 16th century Winchester College Football, Eton Wall Game, Harrow Football and Rugby Football which are all still played at the respective schools. The Rugby school version of the game was then popularised and codified in 19th century into Rugby Union and Rugby League. Rugby League being the closest to American Football.
I've been told that American football developed from union, but league, which was much later, developed from American football. No idea whether that's actually true or not.
@@_starfiend Both Rugby League and American Football developed from Rugby Union around the same time but in very different ways.
Rugby League was developed in 1895 when Northern clubs broke away and wanted the game to be professional, reducing the number of players and altering the rules to make it easier for spectators to follow.
From American Football Hall of Fame 'On November 6, 1869, Rutgers and Princeton played what was billed as the first college soccer football game. During the next seven years, rugby gained favor with the major eastern schools over soccer. However, it wasn't until the 1880s that a great rugby player from Yale, Walter Camp, pioneered rules changes that transformed rugby into the new game of American Football.'
I love rugby and it is popular in England we have a good team that actually win things sometimes unlike unlike the ENGLAND football team
The Rugby season in England starts in September.
Rugby season in Aust New Zealand starts in February
@@paulgdunsford7469 That's your autumn isn't it. Just asking.
@@cuthbert246 yes autumn Southern Hemisphere
@@paulgdunsford7469 Thank you. All the best.
Would recommend watching the British and Irish Lions v South Africa , the lions tour every 4 years and they are the best players from England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland so it’s a bit of a special occasion
Invictus with matt damon and Morgan freeman is a good rugby movie to watch.
So is Up 'n Under. Its about a pub rugby team in Yorkshire.
Was born in Rugby, Warwickshire (midlands). A small(ish) market town pretty much in the center of England, where the game was invented.
No doubt there were similar games to it from way back, but it was codified at Rugby School after it's alleged a Rugby School boy named William Webb-Ellis picked up a Football and ran with it. There s a statue of him outside Rugby School and a plaque was erected on one of it's outer walls in 1895 reading -
_THIS STONE_
_COMMEMORATES THE EXPLOIT OF_
_WILLIAM WEBB ELLIS_
_WHO WITH A FINE DISREGARD FOR THE RULES OF FOOTBALL_
_AS PLAYED IN HIS TIME_
_FIRST TOOK THE BALL IN HIS ARMS AND RAN WITH IT_
_THUS ORIGINATING THE DISTINCTIVE FEATURE OF_
_THE RUGBY GAME_
_A.D. 1823._
Soon after that Rugby League split from the original Rugby Union.
"Rugby is a game for thugs played by gentlemen, and football (soccer) is a game for gentlemen played by thugs".
Discuss.
We've heard of wedgies. It wasn't something boys did to each other when I was at junior school. We got chinese burns and dead legs instead, and birthday bumps, and three punches on the arm for farting. Normal stuff. The playground pre-rugby practise game played by small boys was British Bulldogs, which was trying to run across the playground without being tackled to the ground by all the other boys playing, but with no ball involved. Oh, and if anyone fell over in the hallway or just in the middle of playing some other game (except football - the kicking kind), other boys had the right to jump on top of you while shouting "bundle!"* Which is vaguely rugby related, in a way.
*pronounced bundoo, with a silent 'l', at least down in south London.
Most popular in New Zealand - best in the world, second is Wales as it's our national sport - though soccer is well loved too. and we some really good players - but we only have 3.5 million people whereas England has 66m people and more clubs than anyone else in the world. Other significant RU teams are Australia, South Africa, France, Italy, Canada, tonga and south sea islanders etc - though better at rugby sevens.
The US Eagles aren't bad and given your population could be the best in the world.
A few yanks played form y team 'Cardiff' in Wales and they were great and I think they both settled here.
Women also play rugby. There is also rugby league Which is played in the north. It a British game. We have two rugby teams in Hull.
The saying in the UK is that football is a a gentleman's game played by thugs and rugby is a thugs game played by gentlemen .
I seem to remember it was the other way around??
Rugby, played by thugs for gentlemen; football, played by gentlemen for thugs.
Definitely agree on the for side, rugby fans are gentlemen (and women), football fans are thugs. Not quite so sure on the players, lol. Some of the rugby players were most definitely gentleman, some of the football players were most definitely lawn fairies. Lol!
The local ground where I used to live, hosteb both football and rugby matches. The smallest rugby gate in ten years, was bigger than the biggest football gate. Alcohol was served in the ground during rugby matches, but wasn't served anywhere within a mile during football matches. Football matches always had at least three times as many police, and more first-aiders. (I was a first-aider at both!)
Would love to see you react to a Rugby match
Rugby is very popular, it’s just that football is so popular in comparison everywhere it may look unpopular, it was the main sport played at my ‘high school’
Keep your wife in the videos.
Rugby is the biggest threat to NFL in the USA. The biggest followers and converts to Rugby are those from an NFL background, particularly those who recognise that the NFL is overly and disrespectfully commercialized. If Rugby gets real traction in the USA NFL is doomed!
Matches to watch are 2019 Six Nations England vs Scotland where England took a huge lead only for Scotland to come back to lead, the game ending in an unlikely and unusual draw; 2021 France vs Scotland where against all odds Scotland beat France in the final minutes to deny France the title and hand the title to Wales; and Japan vs South Africa in the Rugby World Cup 2015 where again against the odds and in a historical upset, Japan beat South Africa.
Also you might check out the difference between Rugby League and Rugby Union, Rugby League being the smaller brother but conversely being more like NFL by having a fixed tackle limit before posession changes, a bit like downs in NFL; where Rugby Union has no such limitation.
Er…. One small issue with that video. Rules? Rugby doesn’t have rules it has laws
Rugby is a fast and furious game. The players are ultra fit. Some are huge men depending on the position you play. No padding. Very physical. Great skills. If you like NFL I'm sure you will like rugby.
I was growing up with football, but for around 10 years or so I learned more about Rugby and I really love the game!
Unfortunately Rugby isn’t that big here in Germany. But that gives me the freedom to choose any team to cheer for. 😜
If 'in touch' usually the clock will continue but often on the ref's permission, sub's can come on. serious injuries can be treated to. Minor injuries are treated while the game goes on, by physio/medics running on. If head injury is spotted the game is immediately stopped. Occasionally head injuries are not spotted by officials, BUT a neutral doctor will intervene to tell the ref needs a player to go off for HIA (Head Injury Assessment) which i think is either 10/15 mins.
A good introduction to rugby would be the recent Bristol Bears v Quins 19/6/2021 and Exeter Chiefs v Quins 26/6 two of the best games you will ever see. Love your videos!
Season is always on internationals at the moment US just played lol the Irish, reminder it’s played in both northern and Southern Hemisphere winter sport in both
Scrum is in fact short for scrumage with is very close to scrimage and most come from the same source.
A team can keep the ball the whole game in terms of "Make it take it". If you score, the other team kicks the ball to you. In American football, if you score, you kick to the other team.
Rugby league is terrible, rugby union is amazing
Watch the Nigel Owen compilation, he was a great referee
GB and Irish Lions are currently touring. Well worth looking out for that. The film Invictus will give you an idea of how important the sport of rugby union is to South Africa, too.
Remember to check out rugby league as well. I love both codes of rugby but union usually overshadows league when it comes media attention. Two very independent and very popular sports that share a common history.
The clock only stops for an injury and mostly, only if the injured player is in the way of play and/or if the ref needs to talk to players/player
Cricket is a British sport only the Netherlands is the only Europen country that play cricket and they’re not full ICC member .I’m English-British NOT Europen.
You got that wrong...what about Ireland, they have a damn good cricket team and you are European, just a bit nationalistic than factual
The reason it is called a try is because originally the only thing it allowed you is a 'TRY' at goal which was the only way to score points. Times have moved on but the name remains...
React to the rules of hurling or gaelic
Just a technicality , there are actually no rules in rugby union. There are however Laws, b/c the game is taken that seriously 😉
The domestic season in Europe starts in November.
At the moment though the British & Irish Lions (a team made up of players from England, Scotland, Wales & Ireland)are currently touring South Africa and will play 3 test (international) matches there. This is a big deal as the Lions only tour once every 4 years and this alternates between South Africa, NZ and Australia, so each of these countries is only visited once every 12 years
Correction - The European competition is November, domestic leagues start in September
Football came first. Then someone picked up the ball and ran with it and Rugby Football was invented. Americans bastardized rugby and the result was American Football. Same with the Aussies and Aussi Rules football.
Your national team, The Eagles are not shabby at all. America started playing Rugby in 1872
Make sure you watch the Sevens rugby at the olympics. The US is a medal favorite.
Wife really needs to watch some games you might like to watch America in the world cup they are really getting better.
The clock keeps running unless the ref calls time off. The ref usually calls time off for severe injury or head knocks, when he needs to talk to the team captains/penalized players, and when fights break out, or he is checking the replay with the Television Match Official (TMO) for a possible call he missed.
Hello Ethan and today's star turn Mrs. American. I commented on the north south divide video about the north of England having given rise to the alternative to this version, namely Rugby League. Rugby League is more popular in Australia though Union is in New Zealand and especially in South Africa too. It is the middle of the Super League season as it switched to summer in UK and as I mentioned in a football comment it is the Challenge Cup Final at Wembley this weekend. "Wife" would love it I am sure (my girlfriend does) and it is not unlike NFL without pads, helmets and forward passes. Another comment mentioned where to look at how the two versions differ. Watching this weekend? Go on. Think of the Mrs.
Thanks for sharing, Idk if will get to see the game this weekend I might do a highlight?
Ethan,
Thank you for the like and the reply.
Here is a copy of a comment to someone in Memphis a bit back in case you find of interest -
Regarding concussions please see Google for Rob Burrow, Stephen Darby and Doddie Weir.
I used to see Rob each year when I collected for charity. This came out of going to keep an eye on ladies like the ones in your lake district video, who got too old to go themselves.
The first time I met him I had put the radio on that morning and up came Eamon Holmes talking to him on the radio, which was strange as I was just thinking I knew a neighbour of his through work, though I lived 20 miles away. I said when I met him that I reckoned his team would be champions as it was so strange how the radio had him on when I started listening. They did win the title. Note I was a fan of their biggest rivals.
It is so sad to see pictures of Rob now, but also inspiring how he has dealt with it.
Rugby and our football have taken steps to protect players now.
3 weeks ago
yeh wedgy means the same
we know many US terms and slang, we have sh*t loads of US TV in the UK so you can assume we understand 99.99% of the terms that are specific to the US
8:10 The average gameplay time of American Football is 13 minutes. Football is a 90min game with an average of 70mins gameplay
Rugby is more popular inWales than soccer, soccer is more popular than Rugby in England
I've been to Rugby school where they definitely say they invented the game. First time we played it (aged 13) a schoolmate broke his arm. It's certainly aggressive and dangerous.
NFL it certainly isn't......and if you think this is hard.....Aussie rules football.
American Footbal is based upon Rugby Union rules, stuff like the pads etc got added in the latter part of the 1800s.
Next you need to give the rules of Rugby League a viewing, the same channel also does an explanation vid.
Lastly, I'm sure you'll get a lot of Rugby Hits Till I Collapse reaction requests, so best to get it out of the way as soon as!
The worlds fastest field sport is the Irish game Hurling. The ball is pronounce Slitter or Shlitter (depending on the accent)
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Rugby was invented in England at Rugby school. 1823 Rugby Union is massive in England and the UK. thereafter Rugby League. Invented to allow players the ability to play and get paid 1895.
AF came from Rugby. It was created in 1863 in Rugby, England.
Not all games are won by having the most points... Golf, for instance, requires you to have the lowest score to win...
Try watching AFL (Australia football league). Try watching What is AFL! It’s been around since 1820’s
They are the Laws of Rugby Union. The LAWS. Rules are for board games and computer games.
Rugby league split due to worries about injury in the scum, rucks and mauls, because Rugby Union has always been the domain of the rich southern toffs and the working class northerners could not afford to take the time off work due to injury. Rugby league is closer to grid iron so more Americans seem to prefer it
Rugby union was seen more as an amateur middle class sport to which there was no payment, whilst the working class split from Union to be paid
@@glastonbury4304 yes because the clubs could afford to pay what was called Broken time payments for days absent from work
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Most of the world's most played sports on earth were created in the UK.
Tennis: France/ England. Created in 1437.
Golf: Scotland. Created in 1457.
Rugby: England. Created in 1823.
Football: England. Created in 1820.
Cricket: England. Created in 1597.
Snooker: India / England. Created in 1875.
Darts: England. Created in 1896.
Badminton: India / England Created in 1873.
Table Tennis: England Created in 1902.
Rounders: England Created in 1744.
Created means with its earliest recorded rules created and or known to be played first time with another team or referenced in historical footnotes as a game played.
Sports that were taken from England and converted into a US version.
Rugby and Football: American Football created in 1869
Cricket and Rounders: Baseball created in 1845
As the British took their games with them to new colonies that means the natives would have been taught the games too. So the British created the games and exported them world wide with colonialism. This is why these sports are MORE popular than US created sports.
Rugby Union is the dominant sport in New Zealand, and Wales - plus the Pacific Island nations. It’s very big in other countries - like South Africa, England and France - but just not as big as football. Given those nations have much larger populations they are able to consistently compete at the highest level.
In Australia it’s only popular in certain areas - Rugby League is bigger there generally. Cricket and Aussie Rules are their most important sports. Similarly, in most of Northern England, League is bigger than Union.
Rugby was invented in my town (of Rugby), at the school I went to :)
You must be the only person actually from Rugby who’s gone to Rugby! I’m guessing this is a leg pull? 😂
@@ffotograffydd Nah its true aha
Rugby I'd a game for thugs, played by gentlemen.
We have Northern hemisphere and southern hemisphere teams.
Being in the North, we have the 6 nations tournament every spring, and we currently having a couple of summer matches, albeit with a much reduced number of spectators. Wales🏴 v argentina 🇦🇷 this Saturday
It's the fastest growing sport in America and the US 7's team is one of the best in the world ...who knew 🤷
I had no idea, I haven't been hearing anything about it in day to day conversations.
@@midwestamericans3806 ...just Google the HSBC Rugby 7's World Series and check out 2019 before the pandemic , you will be surprised where the US came ...it's mainly an East Coast Sport , like football (soccer) is mainly west and southern , but "yes" it's the fastest growing sport in the US 👍
@@midwestamericans3806 ..also take into account there are over 2,600 Rugby Union Clubs in the US
NFL vs rugby, rugby is harder hitting and way better to watch.
Baseball vs cricket, Baseball is some much better.
Football (soccer) is real football.
As a english person rugby is awesome to watch
The Lions - a touring side of the best English, Welsh, Scots and Irish - are on tour in South Africa right now. The tour is a bit I’ll starred what with COVID, but when the tests - South Africa v. Lions start, they’ll be titanic clashes! Season kicks off, like the NFL, in September but runs through to May/early June. Watch out for the ‘autumn internationals’ (self explanatory) and the ‘Six Nations’ tournament in February/March. They’re the big ones!
I prefer Rugby as Football is boring and too much diving and pretending they were pole-axed. Rugby is a real sport, even womens Rugby is hard played and fun to watch. Best Rugby matches to watch (Union wise) maybe the Six Nations between England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, France and Italy might be a good start. You will have to wait for the new year though for that. Then there's the Rugby Union World Cup 2023, although it is the Rugby League version of the World Cup later this year which England are hosting. It is between the 23rd October-27th November 2021.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Rugby_League_World_Cup
As for the best teams, Australia, New Zealand (nicknamed the All Blacks as they wear all black), England and South Africa I would say are always the favourites. Other teams on their day though can give even the best a run for their money. If you want to see who I think is the best player of all time, look at Jonah Lomu. He was a All Black player who died at the age of 40, he was 6ft 5in, 265Ibs and could run 100m in 11.2 seconds.
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2:56 Its nowhere near "opposite". In NFL you are allowed one forward pass, all the rest have to be backwards/lateral just like Rugby
3:46 No, as she said, its an extra points kick. A penalty kick is the equivalent of a field goal. Drop Goals are still legal in NFL too btw, just extremely rare.
5:44 She's right, yet again lol. It passes back and forth just as often in Rugby than in NFL, more so in fact.
6:44 The Scrum, like all the other set pieces of Rugby - Ruck, Maul, Line Out etc - is a form of contested snap, with the line of scrimmage/offside line running through it. Well, a bit behind actually; there are a bunch of rules about where dudes need to be and cannot be for any of these set pieces, just like the snap in NFL.
Generally, she gets it: Rugby and NFL are literally the same sport, left to their own for a century or so.
The British Lions are currently touring in South Africa, so might be available for you to view. The British Lions is a team composed of Players from the English, Irish, Scottish and Welsh Teams.
New Zealand ( known as the All Blacks because of their playing strip) is probably the team that dominates World Rugby.
England played the US on the 4th of July, winning 43 / 29 and they played Canada on the 10th, beating them 70 / 14.
The Welsh tend to consider Rugby as their National Game, Rugby and Cricket are the Major International sports of New Zealand, Australia and South Africa, oh and of course they always raise their game when the play England (as do most teams in any sport, as England / Britain, has historically either ruled over them or beaten them in battle).
The best International competition the Northern Hemisphere is the 6 Nations, played between England, France, Ireland, Italy, Scotland & Wales.
I think the major difference between football and Rugby is that Rugby is about the quality of the game, football is all about the result.
No, rugby is very popular in England, obviously nowhere near as much as football, but still very popular.
If you're into NFL you should watch some Rugby League, it's more similar to American Football.
The referee only stops the clock if a player is injured and needs medical care or something like that. And the match ends when the clock marks 80:00 and the game stops, BUT it can't be for a foul. It could be a knock on, out of bounds or a team scores. If it doesn't happen, the game continues. A match between France and Ireland had 20 minutes of "extra time" until France scored a try. And it's very curious that americans don't know the story of football. Rugby Football (that's its real name) came to the USA about 1850. East coast colleges began to use the Rugby rules to play their football matches (Harvard wanted to use the Cambridge rules, the ancient soccer, what they were the only ones). At that moment football and rugby were exactly de same. In 1870 Walter Camp began to "invent" football: only 11 players, no scrums, no lineouts, no rucks... only scrimmages and downs. And no, forward pass wasn't allowed. It came in the XXth century.
Please, stop trying to compare American football with rugby.The lady is right it's played by men.
Probably the biggest difference between Rugby and NFL is that, in Rugby, you are only allowed to tackle the player with the ball. The concept of "blockers" doesn't exist.
Rugby match is like 80 minutes 1st half = 40 minutes 2nd half = 40 minutes and there is only a half time break which is 10 minutes
I'm sorry, but American Football is far less popular than Rugby, which is played across the globe. Don't jupm to conclusions, Sir, something you do quite a lot. Nobody is interested much in AF outside of the USA. AF keeps on stopping especially for adverts. Pitiful. Also, the forward pass is allowed to break a
deadlock which is an inescapable characteristic of the game. When you have to measure achievement in terms of 'yardage' run, you know it's a game more suited to statisticians than men.
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Interesting fact, Rugby was invented in the northern hemisphere but the only team to win a world cup in the northern hemisphere is England. The southern hemisphere have dominated the world cups, New Zealand holding 3, South Africa holding 3 and Australia holding 2.
You do realise that American football was made using Rugby League rules ie. Same points, same basic play etc.
English football came first it is an ancient (centuries old) game, apparent during a football game in the university of Rugby Town (up North ) in the middle of the 1800 when supposedly a student called Webb Ellis (he’s got a statue and everything) got fed up with kicking the ball and picked up the ball and ran with it to the goal post, thus the game of Rugby Union was invented. The rules were made slowly over the years. It has always been a gentlemanly sport ever since, everyone (both teams) gets fed and drunk together after the match. That is the forerunner to the games Rugby League and American Football (I supposed to that English football is why the American who chopped up Rugby League to make your football called it football and the rules were twisted slightly to make it a hell of a lot more lucrative and not just a good game. That’s why it’s not just a tiring game of two forty minute halves.
In the Uk and everywhere else in the world children start to play rugby at about 6 or 7 with ribbons loosely tied to there belts behind to simulate the tackle. And then they can start playing tackling rugby when they move on to secondary school. If they like it they can join a village Rugby club which is also a social club too with bars and dancing. The skills are passed on in this way through the amateur game right up the local county league ladders to the professional team game schools all the big teams have. This is now inclusive of boys and girls rugby.
Hope you learned a bit about Rugby Union and not Rugby League they are both similar but not the same game.
Cheers both.
Rugby is a massive international sport. No disrespect but the NFL although awesome is a novelty to us apart from being complicated-to me anyway lol- International rugby games are wonderful experiences, and patriotic-but not to the point of arrogance-. However there are some very excellent young American players in the MLR comp. The U.S Eagles are gaining great respect.
Rugby is big in the UK, but not as big as football, Rugby League is bigger than Rugby Union in Australia (probably the only country where this is so) Rugby in South Africa is a complicated thing - it gets political. I would say the place where it is biggest is probably New Zealand, where it is pretty much the religion.
The best way for Americans to make firsts steps into rugby knowledge.
Highlights or "greatest hits" being the exact opposite.
congrats.
Rugby is increasing in popularity and quality in North America. USA and Canada have decent (and improving) national sides, especially in sevens (a shorter game with 7 players instead of 15).
The MLR has also been gaining more and more attention, so you will be able to find a more local league or team to follow too.