Can Rugby Break into the USA? (I hope so) American Reacts to Rugby!
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- I honestly hope Rugby can break into the USA like Squidge talks about in this video. Since it is so similar to American Football I'm sure I would get even more sucked in if I had a local team to follow.
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you should watch the highlights of the second test of all blacks vs springboks round 6 of the rugby championship one of the best rugby games in probably 10 years
facts springboks won because of Elton Jantjies try assist drop goal and penalty, people hate on him for no reason he is good
@@liam_za1124 he did play an excellent game but usually in this big games he does not and thats why some people dont like him
@@gunthermollentze2442 because he doesn't get the chance idk if you watch squidge rugby but he made a great point in his last video on the game
@@liam_za1124 yeah i watch squidge rugby and he said he us crucial to our atteck if i am not mistaken but a flyhalves all round game is also very important especially defence alongside offence
@@gunthermollentze2442 I don't think he had the chance to really prove himself in the team so we will have to see, I just don't get why he gets so much hate
The NFL will spend billions making sure Americans don't discover Rugby. If you've seen a rugby match, you know why.
I doubt the NFL needs to spend any money on such a fantasy conspiracy, Rugby could become a major sport in the USA and their team could even win the rugby world cup and yet Rugby would still not be any threat to American football, not just the NFL but also the NCAA college football (which is almost as big as the NFL).
@@danieleyre8913 -- When people start using terms like "fantasy conspiracy" that's when we know someone's on to something. Can you not see why American football is being so overhyped and shoved down our throats 24/7? Sure, rejection of "football" won't happen in an instant for most people, but once they wake up and realize just how boring the last three hours of an hour long game really are ....
@@dougearnest7590 No you’re wrong (and ridiculous) 99 out of 100 conspiracy theories are desperate delusional conjecture with no basis peddled by cranks. The NFL and college football products have evolved to satisfy tastes in the market that is US audiences. If US audiences weren’t fine with the stoppages and advertising; then it wouldn’t have become so huge to begin with. You either have forgotten or have missed that the NFL and college football themselves have to compete with other sporting competitions such as the NHL.
As for “boring”; not only is that a subjective matter of taste but it’s also a ridiculous generalisation. And to be honest; an awful lot of rugby games out there are super-boring anyway.
@@danieleyre8913 -- You forgot to call me a homophobic misogynistic racist, but I guess you can be forgiven since your "all conspiracy theorists are crackpots" narrative is crumbling before your eyes in light of world events - even if the conscious part of your brain refuses to see it. As for the NFL giving people what they want, you really don't understand the first thing about marketing, do you? The NFL is telling people what they like and going to great lengths to reinforce it. If you can't see that after it's been pointed out to you, then okay, you win, I'm a homophobic misogynistic racist... er... I mean a crackpot conspiracy theorist who will hold on to my Bible, guns, and the knowledge Jeffrey Epstein didn't kill himself. Congrats.
Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and England are the 4 nations that have won a rugby world cup. France have been runners up 3 times, then you have Ireland, Wales, Scotland in the next tier followed by Italy, Argentina, Samoa, Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Japan, Canada and the USA which amazingly has quite a lot of clubs and players registered. Also remember that Australia, New Zealand and England also have a significant Rugby League base and both codes have poached from each other.
As a lifelong British (Welsh) rugby fan, I'd like nothing more than for the US to become major competitors in the world rugby scene. You've got some good players already, and I wish you every success.
From a Bok, the same...
The USA has a national rugby team. They are playing a series at the moment for world cup qualification in 2023. The USA winger actually plays for my team here in Western Australia.
The US is ranked 17th in the world. They lost this weekend to Uruguay which dropped them from 16th. It was also a pretty important match as it was a World Cup qualifying match. Now the US is in a pretty precarious position and has to beat Chile to qualify for the World Cup in 2023. Also, the history of the American Football name actually derives from Rugby/Football(Soccer). Not because kicking was more integral earlier in the history of the game. Football was used in the UK as a generic term for a number of similar games played across the country in the 17 and 1800's. However, in the mid 1800's, as industrialization began and travel became easier, teams from across the UK began playing each other. When the did, they found that they all had slightly different rules for the same game and would have to agree on the rules before they played. This caused issues and created the drive to codify and create the first official rule book to the game. The game of FOOTBALL. During this period in the mid 1800's, the game was now rapidly changing to ensure that the rules were consistent across the country. However, some rules were very popular among large groups and in certain areas and when the FA (Football Association, the UK governing body of the sport you may know as soccer) sought to remove these rules, they objected and began the formation of their own governing body that would keep the rules of their style of Football. These rules followed the Rugby Football style of the game. They decided to form the RFU (Rugby Football Union). This also is how American Football got the name Football. Football was Football, Rugby Football was the Rugby style of Football and American Football was the American style of Football. The only difference between Rugby and American Football is that Rugby was directly competing against Soccer, this meant that the local population needed a way to differentiate the 2 sports. They couldn't both be Football. Soccer was/is more popular than Rugby in the UK and over time the naming shifted to just calling Football, football and Rugby Football, Rugby. Rugby has also over time looked to distance itself from the Football name. The international governing body (Think like FIFA) used to be called IRFB (International Rugby Football Board). Over time they renamed themselves the IRB (International Rugby Board) and now they are called World Rugby in order to distance themselves from the Football name. In the US however, American Football didn't have this competition so American Football just became Football. Anyway, long history essay over... The more you know.
As a side note: Rugby will still sometimes be called Football or Footy by older people or in countries where Rugby is more popular than soccer like New Zealand, the pacific islands or Australia (In Australia its often used interchangeably between Rugby Union, Rugby League and Aussie Rules Football. Though Rugby normally means Rugby Union, League normally means Rugby League and Football/Footy normally means Aussie Rules Football).
The primary reason rugby and soccer haven't taken off like their American rivals is is due to the fact it isn't as commercially viable. NFL and NBL are almost designed around maximising sponsorship appeal and revenue, whereas with 40 minutes of near nonstop play in rugby just... doesn't have the space for a metric tonne of ads. It's a shame, but unfortunately a deciding factor.
I just really like seeing so many US TH-camrs starting to enjoy rugby. It's such a brilliant sport. In South Africa it's just part of life, I played all the way through school, my friends played, we all watch. It'll be really cool to see rugby in the US reach a point where kids want to play it at school, and some of those big colleges you have start offering scholarships and such.
All forms of football (including soccer) are called football because they are played on foot, as opposed to horseback. Not because, like most people think, you kick the ball with your feet. It was in fact an English class divide - upper class sports were played on horseback, working class sports were played on foot.
Then why was Association football first played by gentlemen first, it was a game for the upper classes first then the common man started to play. The game was 100% amateur at first, then the common man players were allowed to be paid as the upper class players didn’t have to work in a mill for 12 hours then practice or go on and play a full 90min game.
@@chuckyboy6977 Association football was organised by gentlemen first, but it had been played by the common man without a formal organisation long before the gentlemen started organising it.
The common man in 1800 or whatever was still playing the local variety of football - what we'd now call village football or Shrovetide football.
Public schools each organised their own ball game (Eton still plays the Eton Wall Game and the Eton Field Game rather than association or rugby football, others play according to FA or RFU rules today); the original football rules were the Cambridge rules, drawn up by students at the University of Cambridge as a compromise set so that teams of former students from each school could play against each other - which is why teams like "Old Harrovians" were some of the leading teams of association football in the very early days.
Later on, the post-university clubs got together to form the Football Association (1863). Old Rugbeians, though, found that the Cambridge Rules, which became the FA Rules, were too far from the game they played at school - the key difference at the time not being handling (early FA rules allowed handling the ball), but running forward with the ball in hand, which was not allowed under the FA (after catching the ball, you had to stand still, like making a mark in rugby). They founded the Rugby Football Union in 1870 - several teams had declined to join the FA from the start and they were founder members of the RFU.
Both games quickly became popular with the working class in the newly-industrial towns of the north (the old village football games had not carried well into urbanisation) and those teams started unofficially paying players, resulting in a huge confrontation between several successful near-professional clubs and the FA which still had amateurism rules. The FA eventually gave way in 1885 and allowed professionalism. Within three years, there's a professional Football League in the north, and within four more there's a second division.
In rugby, the RFU also had strict amateurism rules, and similarly had northern clubs paying players under the table. After watching what had happened in association football, they resisted much more firmly, and the northern teams left the RFU to operate a professional league modelled after the Football League - this evolved into the separate sport of rugby league. The RFU and then IRFB/IRB applied the same strict amateurism rules for many years - until making the game "open" in 1995.
The key to rugby becoming a major sport in the USA is it becoming an NCAA organised Varsity sport and university scholarships becoming widely available.
Because 7's is an Olympic sport, I suspect it will be 7's rather than XV's that leads the way.
That sounds like the most likely scenario
Absolutely, I think that’s the only way
The thing about rugby union is that it doesn't have to be the most popular sport in the country for a national team to be good.I am irish rugby is only the 4th most popular sport yet we have won 6 nations and won games against the all blacks and south africa and our provinces(now clubs) have done very well aswell,and Australia have won two world cups despite it being the 5th most popular sport.
USA just lost to Uruguay and missed out on the top qualification spot for the Americas for the world cup 2023.
They now have to play off against Chile for the last automatic qualification spot.
Canada just got knocked out by Chile.
Seattle has so many Brits in it, I guess that's why Rugby works there
I don’t know where Squidge got that whole “rugby states vs football states” thing. Walter Camp and Teddy Roosevelt changed the football rules because they thought too many college players were getting injured.
Owch, that score line yesterday was more in line with a basketball score! 104 - 14!!!
the USA team have their world cup qualifier game this weekend against Chile.
USA played Uruguay a couple of days ago and were beaten so they qualify for the WRC whereas USA has to play Chile twice next year as Chile stopped Canada’s hopes of qualifying. The South American teams are looking good
@@merhaba8 oh thanks for clearing that up 😅
Great video. World rugby has just announced that the 2031 world cup will be hosted by the US
They are ranked 17 on the standings that was published on 10/18/21
Football is called football because it's not played on horseback, not because it involves kicking. Probably, anyway. Apparently that's contested now. Either way, most football codes (rugby, league, gridiron, Gaelic, etc) are still called football because, despite their evolution and growth from what they might have looked like originally, they all still grew from football.
I do wish Squidge would just slow up a bit! He did right at the end but even went a bit too slow.
Technically it’s name is rugby football…. although only administrative bodies these days use the full term…. In Aus and NZ it is often referred to as “footie”
Historically these sports (soccer, rugby union, league, aussie rules, gaelic, american, etc) are all codes of football. All sports share the key element of kicking a goal at some stage. It's also why rugby clubs generally retain the FC in RFC, as it's short for football club.
Hi Blake. The growth of modern day, professional Rugby in the USA will be "controlled" by the availability of MONEY. There have been two or three attempts to get a Professional League of Rugby established. Often by different bodies that want to control and "own" the game. Gate attendance alone doesn't generate enough funds to run a team. Ultimately it is the Media/TV Sporting channels that will provide the income and help generate corporate sponsorship that will back individual teams and the National Organisation. All this takes time and initial seed money to get established.
One way interest has been used is to promote the Rugby 7's game. Now being an Olympic sport it gets certain funding. Plus, the "fun" aspects of the game for spectators is heavily promoted. Drinking, dressing up in costumes and having two or three days of games, all contribute to a sporting festival.
Plus, women's involvement as players. The US Men's and Women's 7's teams have quickly developed a good reputation.
Also, Rugby both 7's and 15's, is also an International game. Unlike American Football. So there are huge opportunities to represent your country in international competitions, tours and a World Cup. (Plus Olympics for 7's.) As sponsorship increases, the game will grow.
More and more tournaments like Six Nations and Tri/Quad Nations (Southern Hemisphere) plus the European leagues and Super Rugby from down under are getting aired on the Sports channels in the USA.
The USA has a massive amount of talent available. Only a very small percentage get to play in the top American Football teams. Huge numbers are still available for Rugby. Cheers mate.
Imagine the US becoming a rugby tier 1 team?
Thanks for all the info!
As of 11 Oct 2021 America were ranked 17 in the World.
Nearly every week theres a new person reacting to rugby and they always like it and prefer it over American football so it can easily grow it just needs to be more advertised in the US more. NZ are playing US on the 23 this month in America so that might bring in some fans who see that being advertised.
I wouldn't say I prefer rugby over American Football but I'm starting to enjoy it lol
I find that American Football is very slow, and I dont understand why you need 53 different players for each game per team.
@@BlakeHC you will soon!
Get real. Some people on the internet aren’t even a drop in the blackest of the US population. For every one of these there would be at least 20 Americans who’re American football fans and who’d not be taken by rugby.
@@danieleyre8913 Rugby is the fastest grown sport in America since 2014 so we will see about that in years to come!
American sports are designed around Ad breaks and commercials. Rugby isn't. At no point will there be a pointless time out for commercials, so it really won't attract the TV stations.
Rugby in America... "THIS SCRUM WAS BROUGHT TO YOU BY BURGER KING. BURGER KING... WHERE YOU'RE THE BOSS"
@@giteausuperstar Lol! Exactly!
Television is a slowly dying medium though. Soccer manages to slowly grow in the USA despite having even fewer stoppages than rugby to ram advertising down throats.
@@danieleyre8913 The bellweather for football (not soccer)will be the 2026 World Cup. Let's see if football will gain traction and maintain momentum after the WC. They also need to get rid of that ridiculous salary cap to attract better players.
@@AdventurousNomad007 You must be a Pom.
“Football” and “Soccer” are synonyms, same fucking difference. No you poms have no authority on what anyone else calls it.
The USA Womens team are number 6 in the world rankings at the moment, 'RESPECT' the real deal and they don't need to degrade themselves by wearing lingerie on the field :-)
From a South African. I have said this many years ago, if the US pumps the same money into rugby as the NFL, you guys would hardly lose a championship... just on pure numbers.
Rugby doesn't stop for tv commercials.
So little chance of tv channels picking it up.
Formula 1 doesn't either but there is a huge growth of it in the US
Ireland punches well above its weight on the world rugby stage but only because it is the main sport in private schools and they churn out hundreds of new propects every season .. it has to start with the kids.
Australia punches above its weight even more they have won 2 rwcs and rugby is probably their fifth main sport.
@@Trajan2401 In fairness though, Australia has 5 times our population and a more diverse gene pool, plus the southern hemisphere countries do tend to dominate tournaments.
@@emeidocathail7808 ,fair enough call countries like NZ and Ireland always have numbers against them in any sport for example NZ are ranked number 1 in cricket yet India have more cricket players than the whole population of NZ combined and also Australia play the ABs three times a year which helps them a lot too and half their team seem to be kiwis also hahaha
USA rugby team won the gold medal in the Olympics in 1924
Is that when Rugby Union was played on horseback?
The big problem is going to be the TV networks they makes so much money from NFL, NBA and MBL that they won't want to give rugby the profile needed. In the NFL the games stop often for commercials rugby doesn't stop until half and full time
At the moment south Africa Wales and New Zealand are top teams I live and breathe rugby
Yes I want to see you at a rugby match.
What a shame they went down 104 points to All Blacks not-quite-1st-team on Saturday.
The difference between New Zealand rugby and South African rugby is fairly simple. In New Zealand rugby is an all consuming religion, in South Africa they take it far more seriously!
Si les américains développent suffisamment le rugby dans les écoles, créaient des clubs, ils seront sans aucun doute une des nations du futur les plus fortes .c est mathématique....le vivier est énorme
It does look like fun to play and unlike real sports like football there is no great throwing or catching skills needed you're just tossing the ball to another player, so it much easier.
If Rugby becomes big in the states it will only be if there is a big change in the way they play the game. Commercial interests play a big part in how a game is played in the states. Tennis with its changeovers, and American football with its many breaks provide plenty of opportunities for advertisers. Basketball doesn't, so they introduced time outs, and it seems to me rugby would have to do the same thing as there are very few natural breaks to slip in ads. Even line outs would not naturally provide that opportunity as sometimes a quick line out can be taken and nobody would want to come back from a break to find that a try has been scored.
The states could and should be a major player in a major international sport, but will they if for the first few years they'd have to settle for second best?
Gotta be honest with you: It doesn't bother me either way if the USA gets into Rugby & becomes competitive or not per se.
But I would like to see more nations become competitive at the game and its audience to spread & grow, wether that nation is the USA or not.
I will say: I don't believe that the USA would dominate at the sport if they got good at it because of "athleticism of African Americans" or whatever it was that I've seen American football fans have been saying online to me for over 20 years. England and France both have a fair % of its population now with West African & Caribbean heritage and they've hardly led them to dominate in Rugby. Rugby is more about tactics, technique & skills (that take years to master) and endurance than burst athleticism like how it seems in American football and basketball. And the USA doesn't exactly completely dominate Basketball internationally. Nor is the USA dominant in either Baseball nor Ice Hockey.
I think the USA could definitely become among the top teams though.
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The thing about American football is only one country plays it, yes there are fans in other countries. Rugby has club leagues all over the world and an International competion the Rugby World Cup. Maybe one day the USA will drop their home grown sports (American football and Baseball) and join the rest of the world in Football, Rugby and Cricket.
We will never "drop" American football but I can definitely see us become a more involved country in international sports
@@BlakeHC I hope so too, but your american sports are so ingrained into high schools and colleges that it will be difficult to get your most talented atheletes to play these international sports. Hopefully USA with do well in the RWC (they are ranked 6th) and this will inspire young atheletes to go towards these sports.
Want to tell you, South Africa and New Zealand are small countries and along with England, Wales and France all produce some fine Rugby teams. The USA has the people, the money and the motivation. With training and some marketing there is no reason as to why the USA should become world champs. No reason it should not happen. I lived in the USA while at varsity and although I watched football, Rugby is harder and faster, and much more exciting in my opinion. Rugby will take over the USA once they start winning more.
As a South African I believe USA can become a real powerhouse within 5 years if they start taking rugby seriously.....you have the numbers and the money
Squidge got it very wrong with this video as USA did not do very well in the World Cup. I dont think the US 15s rugby side will improve much, at least not in the near future but their 7s rugby side is actually good.
And their womens squad are excellent
No game that does not have frequent breaks in play to facilitate tv commercials , will make the big time in America.. TV IS GOD IN THE USA.
Actually Formula 1 is becoming more popular and doesn't have commercial breaks. I'm a big F1 fan
US is going in the right directions, but please do not set your expectations on the US - NZ game. NZ are currently number 1 or 2 and especially against weaker teams (I would say more then 4 places below them in the ranking) could easily put 30-50 points against them.
I think it will be a good game to watch especially to see NZ in action. They play beautiful rugby, and are probably the world most entertaining side to watch in terms of skill. Unfortunately that is not so nice sometimes to be on the receiving end of that. So I would see US ending with less then 20-30 points against NZ as a win for US.
Yeah I'm not going in with high expectations. Just would love to see a game played in real time
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Bro the all blacks will beat the Eagles by a big score. But for most of the Eagles players who take the field, this will be the highlight of their careers. Every players ambition is to play the all blacks
It's the fastest growing sport in the US with over 2000 clubs, whether it will break into the States is another matter as the US don't really play that many truly world field sports
I feel like the reason we don't play that many world sports is because of our geographical location
@@BlakeHC ..not sure about that, Australia, New Zealand, Argentina all play world sports and damn good at them and geographically more isolated 🤷
@@BlakeHC maybe you just like your own sports, F1 is taken all round the world every year, but there are no real drivers from the US...seems you like your NASCAR better
@@glastonbury4304 I'm a huge F1 fan even though there are no American drivers. And I've never even really watched Nascar
@@glastonbury4304 and yeah I guess you're right about the geography thing. It was just a guess
This video was clearly made by one of those chinless English Rugby Union types. He stated that rugby only became professional in 1995, WRONG! There has been professional rugby played in Britain since 1895. It’s called Rugby League. Largely played in the North of England, League was formed by working men who couldn’t afford to have time off work without payment . So payment for playing was made legal. Check out any History of Rugby League video’s for more info.
Rugby League is not Rugby Union.
@@brucefale6132 No shit Sherlock!
I have noticed recently that what you call a "touchdown" consists of a player walking across the opposition's back line and standing there until a quarterback throws the ball to him and the moment he catches it everyone goes crazy because the fact that one of his feet is over the line means that a "touchdown" has happened. No doubt this rule change was invented to make the game be played a little "faster"
Yeah and that specific rule depends on the level of play. In Highschool and College you only need one foot but in the NFL you need both feet
I mean… the ball neither ‘touches’ nor is placed ‘down’, so ‘touchdown is a misnomer.
Man I want the US to be competitive in rugby (mind you to not beat my team the Wallabies 😉). If the US has a descent domestic competition it will bring the truck loads of cash to the game. It will energise the world game. If done properly it will attract internarional players which in turn will have their skills passed onto the US. A strong US on Rugby will be better for the game in general.
Historically and I could be wrong but rugby was played just as much as American football in the old days and were quite good at it by then stuck with American football cos rugby was too dangerous
Yes you are wrong. The USA was never good at rugby historically and American football was never less dangerous. In the early 20th century there began a spate of American footballers being killed or suffering life-affecting injuries.
JUST SUBSCRIBED BECAUSE A: YOU WATCHED SQUIDGE RUGBY
B: YOU DONT TRY AND COMPARE FOOTBALL AND RUGBY WHICH ARE TWO COMPLETELY DIFFERENT SPORTS. I MUST ADMIT I LIKE FOOTBALL, BILLS FAN HERE AND ENJOYING EVERY SECOND OF IT.
C: ITS ABOUT TIME THE US ENTERS WORLD RUGBY WITHOUT BEING COMPLETELY DOMINANT LIKE THEY WERE AT THE TURN OF THE 19TH CENTURY. THE EAGLES BTW WON GOLD IN 1920 AND 1924 OLYMPIC GAMES, SOMEWHAT OUR WORLD CUP IS TODAY·
Thanks bro!
Hiya. Sorry, I had to leave after 3 mins, all those captions were doing my head in and even though I wasn't trying to read them, they still managed to prevent me from concentrating on the audio. Never mind. Stay safe. All the best to you.
Thanks for stopping by! Just so I know... What captions do you mean?
@@BlakeHC - Lol. All of them! They were top of the screen, bottom, middle, across, all over the place and continuously there. That was the annoying thing, being non-stop - non-stop visual distraction. It wasn't your fault, though. YOU didn't add them, that channel did.
Ahh okay I thought you meant captions I put in lol. Well check out some of my other vids that don't have those annoying captions! Cheers
Your game is called football because the ball is a foot long nose to nose
Rugby isn't about bug money compared to every other team sport , most American team sports ate all about the money, also no different division where a team can go down , and another wins promotion . which is why everyone knows who's gonna be in the finals every year . That's what they would do to rugby in the u.s. too. I know that sounds harsh ,but if you look at basketball,football,baseball its same old story
Yeah I think you're mostly right but there are a lot of American Football players who play for the love of the game. Like the guys who play into their late 30s and early 40s after they've already made their fortune.
I agree with what your saying , I don't mean the players , I mean the owners and the fact that only teams with big money , that will buy the better players . leaving the smaller teams to have no real chance to compete. Some of the best rugby /football is played by a group of lads for the love of the game .
6:38 - Do you know how dangerous that really is. If Americans through out their football and religiously adopt rugby in their schools. The world will have a BIG problem contesting against US rugby if every state breeds rugby players.
Agree. The USA will eat the All Blacks plus the Boks and any other tier 1 team if they grew a nation of rugby kids. Just keep playing NFL please.
US has a great Rugby 7's team in the top 10, so rugby is taking off in the US...most of my American friends are getting sick of the NFL and all its stop start and commercialisation ...plus it's an awful sport to watch on TV with adverts constantly or commentators discussing statistics as if people really care 😅😅
I really dont get why American Football is so popular. I have seen it a couple of times and it was so boring compared to Rugby
Different culture I guess
US and Canada missed World Cup qualifying for the first time in about 100 years, this weekend. .... big loss....
Damn that sucks
@@BlakeHC US still has a chance, if they beat Chile or they win a last chance mini tournament against other nations who have lost their continents qualifiers then they qualify for the world cup. Canada are out though.
The u.s can still get in , they play Chile this weekend for last spot ..... Go get em lads
@@debbiegreen1552 The World Rugby didn´t fix the date for those games
damn can you stop to call a sport football when you never use you feet to play ut
definition of fooball is FOOT / BALL
I think American Football got its name because you are running on your feet while playing. Tbh it's just semantics at this point
@@BlakeHC even on this I don't understand because in football ⚽ players are running too in rugby too so why in a way you may should call this American rugby not football because only one player plays with his feet the kicker
@@MrApocalyptica83 lol I didn't make the rules bro 😂
@@BlakeHC i know but that weird for an European to see a sport called football where player use mostly their hands so keep up the good work and for rugby watch the highlight of the last France new Zealand match and have an eye on France to who won a grand slam in the 6 nation tournament and the next world cup will be in France so ....... .
You’re watching the wrong code. Watch instead NRL in Australia.
Just so you know
We don’t call rugby - Football…….in case anyone else brings it up as well
Football to us is Soccer in most countries I know…….its never been called football…….though the idea of rugby was created during a football match haha…go figure hhaha….great vid bud
Rugby wasn't created during a football match.
@@matthewedgeworth4509 yes it was…….they called it rugby because it was the name of the school where it was first played…….during a football/soccer match!!!……….and not a game they play somewhere in Europe which is similar to rugby but not even close when the player has a ball and has to get to the other side of town….not that either!!
@@bronzemen34 Again, no.... This is not the case at all. I explained this to Blake on another video, the reality is actually much more complicated (and more interesting).
Rugby didn't evolve out of football/soccer, it WAS football. Or rather it was one kind of football. Rugby and soccer are both 'sister sports' that evolved, at the same time, out of a myriad of different football rules that were played at England's elite schools in the 19th century. The football played at Rugby School was one of these, but in addition there was Harrow football, Winchester football, the Eton field game and many many many more besides. They all had different rules about carrying the ball, methods of moving the ball, scoring and so on. Some resembled modern soccer a little bit more than others, though they were still a very very far cry from it...but others favoured a rougher, carrying based game (mainly Rugby School and it's followers). Yet they were all "football". These school games also had influence beyond that in the Sheffield Rules of 1858 (which, again, was not soccer).
It was a desire to create compromise rules so that different schools could play each other, as well as ex-pupils of different schools wanting to play after they left school, that resulted in the development of Rugby Football and Association Football. This was the direct motivation for the formation of the Football Association. However, the original rules of the FA look nothing like modern soccer either.... There was a big debate between those clubs and individuals who favoured the more robust Rugby School rules, and those who favoured rules which limited carrying the ball (such as Eton). Among the founding members of the FA for instance was Blackheath, which would later become a famous Rugby club. The point is that this hard distinction only emerged later on.
Only after the exponents of rugby style rules lost the debate did they decide to breakaway from the FA, eventually founding their own Rugby Football Union a few years later. It's not like - as many people mistakenly think - that there was "football" recognizable as modern soccer going back to the 19th century, and that Rugby then broke off from it. Rather all the modern codes evolved out of a sort of this "primordial soup" of different football games and this myriad of different rules. It was a long process for them to arrive at the modern sports today.
Stephen, you're a scholar mate
@@BlakeHC All easy info to find! I'd recommend reading the works of Tony Collins (or listening to his wonderful podcasts) if you curious about this. I really recommend his book "How Football Began: A Global History of How the World's Football Codes Were Born
". He also wrote the introduction to another interesting one - "Puddings, Bullies and Squashes: Early Public School Football Codes" by Malcolm Tozer
Considering that America is the largest soccer playing nation in the world, Rugby will be next
Doesn't do them any good though.
How is the USA the largest Soccer playing nation?!
It has the most soccer amenities and soccer players than any other nation
@@seank5271 Ah, no Germany is widely known to have the most registered Soccer players.
Fair enough. But that wasnt the original intent of comment.
You have no chance against the All Black. Don't loose faith though