Canada v USA Rugby

Aug 13th game between Canada and USA from Denver, the second of a home and away series before the World Cup.

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• Rugby

[DRFC0910]

malifa is the worst outsidehalf in international rugby he is just awful

[kristianOLS]

Fear the beard

[dudilsta]

That's cuz we don't really give two shits about football. And when we do, CFL has different rules & fields, which would make any game against an American team lop sided. Plus, rugby is way more tough than football. They don't even compare

[AmericanMuscle881]

Ok I'll give you Boston... But what about Chicago or Pittsburgh, how many Canadians do they have eh. I've never see a Canadian victory In football and that is a contact sport. Lacrosse and Box $ Field i Can't say because no one here really watches those games. SO you could be right.

[excitationz]

@aryanrele2006 It's NBC... and you think they would have a Canadian on it's TV crew?

[excitationz]

@AmericanMuscle881 : Stupid argument... '93 the last Canadian team to win SC? the Bruins have the most Canadians of ANY NHL team.

As for team 'contact' sports... Canada beats the US more often then not; Lacrosse Box & Field, Rugby and Hockey. Reason being? Americans just can't believe little-old-Canada produces tough athletes, crazy that eh?

[excitationz]

@AmericanMuscle881

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Football is more explosive, the gear is basically used as weapons... helmets especially.

Football is a brutal sport no question, but on the scale of excitement for me it's just way too slow. Rugby is more interesting to watch, add the international teams involved and that just makes it all the more interesting to see the differences of each nation and how they play and look... football is just so very, American

[AmericanMuscle881]

@Badlogic2 Don't get me wrong though. I do think rugby is really fun and it's interesting to watch. But I just think Football is more of a dangerous contact sport, But on the other hand rugby is also dangerous and takes a lot of endurance 

[Badlogic2]

@AmericanMuscle881 The stats I don't know exactly, but do enough research and its understandable why there would be more deaths in American Football. You have to factor the athletes explosiveness, the position the ball carrier is in on the hit, the distance the hitter is coming from. Yes Rugby has some hard hits, but those are even taken down because of wrap ups.

In Rugby most of the deaths and injuries came from bad scrums, The first row, especially the hooker and tighter head prop brek necks

[Badlogic2]

@AmericanMuscle881 Thats not what I'm arguing, I like Rugby more because of its constant intensity.

[AmericanMuscle881]

@CelticCanuck4 And you'll never be better than us at football, baseball, basketball, track, 1993 was the last team a Canadian team has won the Stanley cup, so it's pretty safe to say we beat you in that too. We don't focus on rugby so you can have it :)

[AmericanMuscle881]

@Badlogic2 We don't join because we do our own thing, we don't want to be like everyone else. Not saying everything else sucks. That's just not the way we like it.