 Guys with dives slide on concrete. Oh, oh no. Sliding on concrete? Come on man. Yeah, they probably would. Sup you guys, what is going on and welcome back to another video. Welcome back to another rugby player reacts reaction video. My name is Jacob McDonald. Welcome to my YouTube channel and rugby player reacts is a series that I decided to start about two years ago. It was a fateful day back in May of 2018 and you know being a rugby player being you know having 20 years experience being from New Zealand the home of the All Blacks. I always had a slight interest in American football knowing that I mean they're playing with an oval ball. I guess they're gonna do sidesteps and tackle in the same sort of way that they do in rugby and I went and looked at the best Jokes, I didn't know they were called jokes at the time but the best sidesteps in the world of American football and I did a reaction video to that as a rugby player and It blew up. It blew up. I think I was the first person on YouTube to actually do that to use that title and To really delve deep into the world of American football. I mean you guys are still here because you know, I love it I do I love football, but I still haven't gone to a game, which is crazy Anyways, that's a bit of an introduction to this video I do want to show you just before we crack into it. I have I have you know a fair a Fair list of suggestions the best Suggestions that I've been given probably over the last two or three months and well, it's my mission to get through them So basically what we're gonna do is we're gonna bring out our notebook every single day and we're just gonna tick them off I'm just gonna I'm just gonna choose something randomly. You know, I've got I've got different sports I got different players. We've got movies. We've got highlight clips. We've got Documentaries among other things so guys Sit back relax. I'm gonna roll the intro and I'll see you shortly with which one are we gonna do New York? No, you know what? We're gonna go New York Street ball my man, Robert Dedrick sent me through a recommendation like he does all the time on On some I think it was vice sports. They did a special on New York Street football I think they've had you know three or four seasons of this documentary series and well Just having looked at the thumbnail. I'm already interested So I'm gonna pull that up. I'm gonna roll the intro like I said, and I'll see you back here shortly to check it out Let's go Kings of the underground High-stakes Street football in New York City this video was published on December 10th 2015 and before we move on I'll read the description New York City's infamous Street football league is just like the NFL if you ditched the stadiums for a field in the Projects and replace the Lombardi Trophy with a fistful of cash Then got rid of the pads and most of the rules designed for player safety What it lacks in polish is more than made up for in passion drawing participants from some of the roughest hoods in New York Kings of the underground is a six-part series that will track all of the Street League teams as they vie for the Street Bowl Street Bowl Championship guys If you've seen my previous videos looking at the backyard football league the BFL This is basically that on steroids and I've got to say that vice sports is Definitely one of my my all-time favorite channels. Definitely my favorite sports documentary channel, and so with all those things being said Let's get into it. Okay. Wait up NYC Street Football League, let's see if it's got a Wikipedia Street Bowl is the Super Bowl for NYC Street Street Bowl is the Super Bowl for NYC Street Football League and that was Published this year The New York streets were a professional indoor football team base base in New York. Um, no, that's not it I want to read this this was published on February 16th 2020, which is you know, almost five years after the series was Published New York City's infamous year-round Street Football League is to tag football as the hard-hitting NFL is to pop Warner Oh shit protective gear and rules designed for player safety are ensued for a raw form of sport and keeping with the rough and tumble streets From which it was born. I mean, I've heard of Street basketball. I've heard of Street soccer But I've never heard of Street football All of today's teams originated in the 1970s from the Bronx where games were played on concrete with little regard to life or limb Well, the average NFLer makes more than a hundred thousand dollars per game a successful street football player can realize almost as much over the course of the entire year if They make it all the way to the sports grand finale the Street Bowl championship Vice sports produced a six-episode series on the Street Bowl League that track the teams and their quest for the title episode two Sees the first day of competition get underway and digs deeper Okay Kings of the underground Kings of the underground is a compelling must-see series if you love New York City and football It's a look at the bruising brotherhood of Street football a tough inner-city smathmoush city a tough inner-city smathmouth a Tough inner-city smashmouth scene that grew out of the South Bronx in the 1970s. It's as grass roots as it gets All right, you know what I'm gonna be told things that I Need to react to in real time So let's watch. Oh Shit Yeah, what happened there? You know, like we don't got that shot at I hate to think what happens on the field when there's a disagreement looks like reminds me of Jorge Mazvedal You're talking about right that guy spent 11 years in prison from age 17 to 28 Fuck, where does the money come from? Jesus Backdoor tournaments, but you just tag them. No, this is damn their Tackle without equipment some guys that play all day life with equipment on can't even adjust to the speed of street football And I've seen it happen. I've seen them be abused up all the street football You see today all originating in 70s from the Bronx Big difference here. This was all concrete here for the longest Looks like a nice bloody track Beautiful field, but they used to play on concrete Jesus. Oh my god. Look at this Here we go. This is classic. Oh Oh, no Sliding on concrete. Come on man Yeah, they probably would You just want to protect your head That's really interesting You know, obviously man, you're gonna get behind your team if you're from a certain part of town and Streetballs, you know your passion. Holy shit the patriotism behind some of these teams is gonna be next level Far out How who owned the teams Closest thing that I got as a kid to playing, you know streetball Tournament was basketball in my hometown of Littleton. We had a local court It's probably about a year old at that point. We'd never had one Everyone used to go down there. This is probably shit how it was high school. Yeah, probably 13 14 15 16 17 Five years we spent fucking all the time down at that court and the youth center of Littleton set up a tournament a Streetball tournament and our team it got into the final we actually lost But teams came from like all over Christchurch. It was so fucking cool It was three on three and like me and my mates who played in that team like we always talk about it It's something you'll never forget and it's something that can easily be organized to just gotta put in a bit of effort Reputation and rode out with it while the ride was there. We all rode it and had a good old time out here Money's a powerful thing man Also the root of all evil Five grand Okay I get it now That's why by sports have come in. They're setting up this eight-side tournament over two days They're setting up a tournament over two days with 16 grand on the line eight teams a little right then Streetball Well, that's you and me both my friend You and me both but I am gonna need a bit of time to sit down and get through all of those episodes so we're gonna call it a day here and Well, hopefully you enjoyed that as much as I did and Well, don't give any spoilers. All right, so with that being said, I'll see you in the next video to check out episode number two Definitely looks interesting. I'm thinking hoping it's still going now, but I guess we'll find all that out in good time So I'll see you then peace out