rugby league 101

a film made by film star russell crowe to describe the differences between the great sport of rugby league and american football

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• rugby
• league
• russell
• crowe
• NFL
• american
• football
• extreme

[pastyspud]

i produced a 2nd video with music,the foo fighters pretender, it lasted about a year before the youtube gods removed the soundtrack..the basturds

[pastyspud]

mwidunn

all the world cup games are gonna be broadcast on ESPN360 on the net..

[VirginiaAndrews]

Awesome...Was I the only one expecting Americans to be bashing this video?

[pastyspud]

what can they bash about it?? like NFL rugby league features bone crunching tackles..unlike NFL though RL players have to get up and play the ball..not take a break for 2 minutes while they come up with another play..rugby league is 80 mins none stop crash,bang,wallop..america would love it if they gave it a chance.

[pastyspud]

this video has no sound btw......don't blame me blame russell crowe...lol

[aspoj]

The average crowds are about 20k, it looks small cause most the games shown are played out of a stadium in Sydney which holds around 80k. Also theres around 8 teams based just in Sydney with fuckall advertisement for games, hence the crowd size.

Rugby League and Aussie Rules are probably as popular as each other around Australia, League is more Sydney based and Aussie Rules more Melbourne based.

[kylienachani]

I'm from England & RL is not better viewing on TV.

Its much better from the stands.

I have introduced many Football (Soccer) fans to the sport, who used to watch on TV but said they wouldn.t go to a game.

After some persuasion I got them to go & they've never looked back. They all had the same response. They said my God you don't realise how fast & exciting it really is until you come & watch it live.

Believe you me its very difficult to get Soccer fans from Liverpool to cahnge their sport.

[1rippedup]

NFL is fucking gay!

[august251976]

@fabberkill you know nothing about rugby (5ft 8 180 pounds) are you kidding me? there are guys 6ft 8 tall who run the 100m in 10 seconds tackling you in rugby - try getting in the way of these guys who weigh 19 stone (266 pounds). Try watching rugby first and then commenting, you made yourself look stupid

[poitty1978]

@fabberkill NFL is better yea right 3 hrs to play a 60 min game how slow and boring NFL needs 52 players per team Rugby League has 17 NFL unlimited subs Rugby League 10 for the match NFL 3 sides offense defense and special teams Rugby League 1 team plays it all 80 mins non stop. Only pussies wear pads real men dont need them

[RyanWould]

haha i love how every clip is of the Rabbitohs. Was this really made by Russ?

Go the ROOSTERS!

[UHtiger]

@fabberkill The average rugby player is 230lbs and 6ft1. There's a guy playing for south Africa who's 6ft10.

[fabberkill]

Rugby sounds ok, but football is better, some of this looks a little bit weird, Rugby is a spring sport, and its way different because u need pads when a 2500 6 6 man is going to sac you, but in rugby these people are like 180 pounds 5 11 6 foot

[fabberkill]

Rugby sounds ok, but football is better, some of this looks a little bit weird, Rugby is a spring sport, and its way different because u need pads when a 2500 6 6 man is going to sac you, but in rugby these people are like 180 pounds 5 11 6 foot

[fabberkill]

Rugby sounds ok, but football is better, some of this looks alittle gay\

[JEJMDTD]

Are their any videos anywhere that compare how rugyb and AF are alike? Maybe I should make one?

I would really like to attract AF fans to rugby, and the easiest way to do that is to explain rugby to AF fans using AF terminology/comparisons.