I have a friend who has played four codes at club level. Proper football, Rugby
Union, Rugby League and Australian 'football'. He comments that Australian
requires the highest level of fitness (they're built like swimmers), and League
is the most brutal. He doesn't consider the american stuff to be football -
just a sort of slow and dreary melee between two hordes of overspecialised,
overdressed and occasional entrants.
He has a point.
Andrew Fildes
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On 28/01/2014, at 5:07 AM, Nathan Wajsman wrote:
> That, and the fact that rugby is more physically demanding because the play
> is much more continuous than in American football. I once heard the latter
> described as "30 seconds of conference followed by 5 seconds of grunting".
>
> Don't get me wrong: I enjoy watching both, and I am consider staying up to
> watch the Superbowl (it kicks off 12:30 a.m. my time). But I think rugby is
> the tougher of the two.
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