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Lung
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of my princess Anastasia!
Mar 1999
time: 15:23
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Originally posted by quinns
I've seen your so-called "physical contact" in your poncy Australian Rules football -- where that poncy official comes out and sticks his poncy fingers out after a goal  You call that physical contact?   Come over to the states and watch those boys hit. They will show you what real contact is like. If they didn't wear pads and helmets, they would literally kill each other! 
Oh... and where is your turn, Lung? 
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I'm not talking about Aerial Ping-Pong! I'm talking about rugby league! Rugby League IS as physical as gridiron, but without the poncy padding! Even Rugby Union is tougher than gridiron, although Victorians can make thier own arguments about Aussie Rules.
Rugby League is dominated by gang tackling, which involves up to four players tackling the bloke with the ball at once, often from different directions, and all without padding! We can't tackle the player without the ball, but only because it would impede on the skills of the ball runner!
Besides, American football players get about three minutes of rest after each minute or so of play, and that's assuming they don't get replaced, which they always do! In rugby league, they only break at half time or when someone gets seriously injured (e.g broken leg, head knocked off, etc ), and only 12 interchanges in total per team can be made in the entire game, including injured players. Up until the 70's, they didn't even have reserves!!!  Injured players either played on or were carried off, leaving their team a player short!
I'll send you a tape of State of Origin rugby league and you can see for yourself 
Oh, and i sent you the turn, didn't i? I didn't check before i logged off, so maybe it hadn't finished sending!  Damn! I was looking forward to my next turn, too 
Last edited by Lung on 06-11-2002 at 08:40
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Lung
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of my princess Anastasia!
Mar 1999
time: 15:23
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I've only ever seen reactions of at the sight of rugby league by those unfamiliar with any sort of rugby. Considering the crippling effects of league on the players in old age, perhaps it's too brutal for it's own good, but what a spectacle! Did you see the NRL Grand Final, Redbull? I mean, when Freddy Fittler got creamed after his kick, only to be headbutted by that crazy Warrior who took a 20m run-up, before getting up and mostering the Warriors in defence AND attack to turn the GF around, he not only proved that he is as tough as he is gifted, but how unextraordinary such toughness is in rugby league.
Andrew Johns got concussed 3 times this year, and each time scored a crucial try afterwards (whatever happened to the intention of renaming it a "touchdown"?  )! And who familiar with rugby league doesn't know the legend of Johnny Sattler, leading the mighty Rabbitohs to victory in the 1970 GF after breaking his jaw early in the game! He still looks like he could punch holes through concrete, and has got to be one of the toughest men on earth.
And what about your own Kevin Campion, eh? Not content with a bulbous nose from a gazillion broken noses, he gets a gash in his forehead which looked like he was midway through brain surgery, and dismissed it as "part of the game" IT'S JUST A FLESH WOUND!!! Then, in the following game, he splits his nose open like the Grand Canyon without batting an eyelid! Oh well, no pain, no brain!
Let's hear some of Quinns' American Football tough stories in response  Hey, i know they're tough - it's just that rugby league is tougher 
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quinns
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Turns to Paulno1 and Birdman.
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Lung
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of my princess Anastasia!
Mar 1999
time: 15:23
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Good for you, Quinns! You should be able to handle rugby league, then I stopped playing when i was 14, because by then i'd already broken my nose and both forearm bones at right-angles simultaneously. I played a game in a park when i was about 26, and couldn't stand up after 10 minutes! I was rather unfit at the time, but when my brother-in-law asked me to play rugby union this year at the tender age of 35, i politely declined (even though it's a bit softer than league)
Hey, RedBull! Speaking of the Grand Final, guess who i saw at Burger King at Newcastle a few days after the grand final?
The following:
Dual rugby union/rugby league international, 3 times premiership winning, Canberra and Canterbury great, general all-round freak Ricky Stuart ;
Former rugby league Australian rep, Penrith great, one-time premier and off-loading freak John "Hoss" Cartwright ;
Former rugby league Australian rep, Canterbury great, two-times premiership winner and enforcer Dean "make 'em" Pay ;
And that blonde trainer dude with the mullet that always runs onto the field in the fluoro shirt for the Roosters! Never have i seen a man so proficient with a water bottle!
It was a procession of stars if ever i have seen one!
It's funny how little guys on TV playing league appear as behemoths in person
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Turn 141 to Birdman.
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quote:
Originally posted by ricketyclik
Yup, one dislocated neck here in rugby union, at age 15. |
Ouch! How did it heal?
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06-11-2002 08:34
Don't pay any attention to him!
With League you can be two things: Gifted and quick, or mean and nasty. Like Stacey Jones versus Goliath. We all know Stacey would run through the oaf's legs and score a try 
And like you, I screwed up my neck royally playing tackle football (WITH NO PADS) when I was 28 years stupid. I hit this guy that was solid muscle and weighed about 250 pounds (120 kilos). He was going down, but then I did something REAL stupid... I sat down and then pulled him down on TOP of my head! I heard my neck crack in about 12 places, but I was not paralyzed. X-Rays showed I was okay, but 13 years later I had to have surgery on my upper spine to fuse three vertebrae together (C5-6-7) because the pain was so bad.
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