I VASTLY dislike basketball; watching or playing, it's all the same, I greatly dislike it. One of the reasons, it's too small of an area. I'll take my 120 yard soccer field any day. As a result, your running is confined to such a small area you have to run around in a circle instead of using the weaving and dodging path you can in soccer or football. I find the throwing of a ball in that fashion quite annoying, I far prefer a football styled through, and beyond that, I would rather just kick it like a soccer ball I don't like the scoring mechanism of getting it in this little basket, because you can't run like crap straight into it, and you can't rocket it like you can a football to the endzone or a soccerball at the goalie's head. You can't use the pure physical force you can use in football or soccer, you just run around like a headless chicken with a big ball that you want to git in a little hoop. It's just so slow and meaningless in my opinion
It takes people with a lot of brute strength to play football. Although I don't like it, I am not dissing the players. They are tough. Most rugby players I see are much smaller than football players. Rugby is an entirely different sport with the same theme. Don't try to compare the two.
If football players didn't use padding, the chances of getting broken bones, even a broken neck, would multiply insanely in one game.
I hate our "Football". Rugby is way better. Our Football players would die trying to play it.
You seriously underestimate our football teams. Even without the padded clothing, they are still huge and athletic. Just as athletic as any pro rugby player. I don't understand how you can think they are going to suck.
BS. Let them play without three feet of padding and then we'll see how tough they are.
Rugby players are hardcore tough.
Pads are for pussies.
That is all.
I found this post in another forum:
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Having played on an organized level in both sports, I this is a fair assessment:
1. The cardiovascular demands for rugby are more intense. Football has more time in the midst of play to huddle and catch one's breath, and the plays themselves often last only a few seconds. And in football you get to rest for half the game! You won't see any 350 pound linemen lumbering around a rugby field.
2. But you will see 350 pound lineman exploding in bursts of enormous energy on a football field. Being the sole target of their attack as a linebacker or defensive back, when your attention is supposed to be focused on someone else who has the ball, is an unpleasant experience not available in rugby. And sometimes there are two of them.
3. There is a reason that football players wear padding and helmets. The hitting is more severe. In part this is due to the fact that they have helmets in the first place.
4. In my first-ever rugby game I used a football-style tackle, putting my face right in the guy's sternum, on a goal-line play. The results were outstanding, jarring the ball loose and preventing a score. My opponent broke his collarbone and I suffered a concussion. As rugby players will have it, we became good friends and admiring opponents for three years. But I learned never to tackle that way again without a helmet!
5. The rugby songs and beer beat anything football has ever devised.
On balance, I left rugby games far more exhausted, bruised and bloodied than I did football games. But I left more opponents either injured or in pain on the football field.
Both a great, intense games, whose requirements are as different as they are similar. Both provide opportunities for life lessons that are irreplaceable. To argue in favor of one over the other is to be a fan. To disrespect one over the other is to never have played the other.
I dunno if that will clear things up, but he pretty much said what I wanted to say.
Yeah, I hate when people compare the two. It is like I said, the game of rugby revolves around a similar theme to football, but it has many differences that enable rugby players to play without padding.
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I don't like the scoring mechanism of getting it in this little basket, because you can't run like crap straight into it, and you can't rocket it like you can a football to the endzone or a soccerball at the goalie's head. You can't use the pure physical force you can use in football or soccer, you just run around like a headless chicken with a big ball that you want to git in a little hoop. It's just so slow and meaningless in my opinion 
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