New Zealand isn't a continent. It's not even 2000km top to bottom.

We're the prison continent. Watch yer camera.

What is that quote implying?

ahh i believe he's talking about the newzealand team (the all blacks, named after being maori's i guess), not so much as african american black people.

They're Southern Islanders.
Think Hawaii, but gronkier.

I was referring to Australasia, or whatever it's called these days.

It's all right, Kiwi-land (Land of the Long White Cloud), is really just another state, anyway.

Australasia (or is it Australia and Oceania now?) covers New Zealand anyway. It's Australia and all those weird islands above it.

Lisaera, I'm well aware, I was actually making a jab at the New Zealander's among us, despite being paki-ha, I am half-kiwi.
But Australiasia is the Southern Islands, Australia, New Zuland, and Micronesia (Poly-Indo,etc)

I don't get how it makes sense at all for Rugby tackles to be more extreme than football ones...

Football, you get to give it your all on every play since it is not continuous, which means every tackle could have all your energy behind it.

Rugby is always ongoing so you get tired and so do the runners, thus both are not giving it their all every tackle.

Football you're wearing pads which means you collide with other players with pads which means huge booms.

The only reason some football tackles aren't as insane is because the tackle has to be made in traffic, ie you don't get a run up to the guy and there are loads of people surrounding you trying to block you and teammates helping you tackle...

Just watch some Roy Williams (The Safety not the Wide Receiver, though they are both sick), Sean Taylor, Ray Lewis, Jessie Tuggle (Go Falcons!) and Ronnie Lott highlights. Those are big time tacklers.

Or if you wanna see defenders getting blown up by a Running back, TJ Duckett (Go Falcons!), Jamal Lewis, Corey Dillon, Jerome Bettis.

I play both Rugby and Football, and it's just personal opinion, but I think Football is a hell of a lot more fun.

Brian Dawkins manhandling Alge Crumpler (Go Falcons stupid Eagles)


Roy Williams doing his thing.

Killing the WR
Putting this one as a hyperlink cause it's kinda big and I feel for those with slower connections .

Killing the RB
Another big one.

Ouch
Big one.

The Duckett Diesel
Go Falcons! That was against a future Hall of Fame Safety too (John Lynch).

Eagles hit

OUCH

Bye to your helmet

Celebrate on my turf? Nuh uh
Terrel Owens pays for his obnoxious TD dances.

Should have called the fair catch

He woudln't have held on to it anyway

Ronnie Lott
Quite possibly the best defensive player in the history of the NFL

Slow motion Roy Williams

Roy Williams again

What a shoulder charge...

Ouch again

Very Ouch....

Tanked

Heehee

Can't Touch This
Not a big hit but oh well. Go Falcons!

Dante Hall



Will post more as soon as I find the damn gifs (mine are all videos).

You can't just give "all your enegy" and in a match between the grid-iron nuts and real football, we'd win. We run around for ninety minutes and get the crap beaten out of us. Even if you were all wearing your little penis-extensions.

wtf does that have to do with anything? That's what I said; Rugby players are constantly running around which football players aren't. The point I was trying to prove was that the bigger hits happen in football.

And pfft, the top 15 athletes in the NFL would kick whatever the top 15 players in the Rugby professional league's asses.

All your energy because you said thats what happens, you give "All your energy" in each tackle. And I'd like to see it. We're able to tackle like that, do scrums and run for 90 minutes because we're in better shape, not stopping every three minutes for an ad break, a drink and to sit down. "The big tackles" happen in rugby - when you see a man sprinting down the field, you're going to dive at him and send you both sprawling and getting the shite beaten out of you. Just look at the injuries recieved. And kicked around? I don't bloody think so. I dare you to play REAL rugby. Go on.

Rugby's for pussies, nuff said. Yrael, since you seem so passionate, you amy argue with me over MSN. Sorry murphy, sorry yrael. Rugby's for pussies. Go Falcons.

This from the ones who run around giving hugs in plastic armour.

At least we don't wear spikes, we can keep ourselves rooted into the ground without the help of our flaming spikes. Loser.

AHAHAH!

Sports.

AHAHAH!

I do play Rugby. Played some Flanker and Hooker. Show some Rugby hits? I saw one game, the "greatest game of Rugby ever played" with I think the Barbarians against the All-Blacks, and I might not remember right but it was mostly just awesome technique in getting the ball to the edges.

And really, more fit? People in the NFL run 4.2 40 yard dashes (well some of them), and there are people 230 pounds running 4.5 and 4.6. Hell, Julius Peppers is 283 pounds and runs a 4.5. Though that's really pointless arguing since that really doesn't have much to do with the sport, just the athletes playing it.

Just out of curiousity, how much money do professional Rugby players make? I have no idea.

Rugby is a great sport, but it is second to Football .

Last Saturday (I recorded it) night I watched a man sprint from one end of the field to the other, football in hand, managing to avoid being tackled, in an extremely short amount of time. Once I get home, I'll record it, but it's faster than that. And they used to get paid obscene amounts, there is now a salary cap. And that weight? Pfft. The players are all pure muscle here, unlike the weedy runts you lot have. Oh, and two words, for speed and weight: Wendel Sailor.