ok, so i guess that the topic of this thread has changed from US soccer, to the toughest sport.
first...
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Originally posted by Jimmy4
Rugby isn't a true CONTACT sport. It's violent to all hell, definately, but compared to football it's just different.
Contact in this case meaning guys running flat out into each other time after time. Rugby has alot of grabbing and such, followed by takedowns, which makes it violent, but not it's contact in the sense which I described it.
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mate, iīm going to have to repeat djflish... you havenīt seen a rugby match.
toughest sports...
Rugby - full body contact, no protective armour, no helmets - rucks, mauls and scrums... take a look.
Hockey - fast and theyīve got weapons. and fighting seems to be encouraged.
American Football - sure they run at each other, but with all of that armour, all of those breaks in play, and millions of players, imo, it isnīt as tough as rugby, or hockey.
and has anyone here seen an AFL match... its not all that tough in terms of body contact, although there are no rules regarding such, but in terms of fitness, it is by far the toughest sport.
then, the rest....
and Halx, imo, baseball is tougher than golf, but only just....
Dude...
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Originally posted by The_Dude
americans dont have a pleasing toward things british and soccer has a british linkage to it.
look @ cricket.
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lol
donīt be silly, England canīt play cricket.
lol
(of course iīm only saying that because at the moment the poms are thrashing us in Rubgy)
ok, so i have a question regarding American team sports... especially the īmajorī sports.
would it be fair to say that Americans steer away from sports in which they would be challenged by other countries (and i mean from further abroad than Canada).
I donīt know of many American teams who regularly compete against other countries. I mean, in Cricket, teams play against many many other countries. This is obviously the same for Soccer, and Rubgy, and Hockey (field) and Netball.
sure, in individual sports, the US is an incredible competitor (just look at the Olympics), but why donīt they compete in international team sports?
is it just because the grass roots sports are mainly unique to the US?
(or am i just not aware of this aspect of American sport?)