Quote Originally Posted by Stagga100 View Post
American footballers are very big and i should imagine stronger than the average rugby player. You get absolute monsters in rugby aswell!! Just have to look at a french player called Sebastian Chabal!... But it just seems to me that rugby players are so much fitter than the footballers! An hour long American football game is churned out and lasts for 3hours. And you have two sets of teams (offence and defense i believe). Rugby players are hammer & tong at each other for 80minutes flat out! And as I'm writing this I also have 2 cracked ribs from a tackle from a player the size of my local supermarket!
And the money involved in American football is ridiculous. No sportsperson is worth that amount of money IMO!
I guess it depends on the type of fitness you are talking about. It seems to me that rugby players are like Tuna fish --- always moving and are in extremely good aerobic conditioning. American footballers (as you say ) , are like a large mouth bass ---made for short runs with high acceleration and have such muscles better developed. I know there is some crossover but I think this is basically true. I've watched rugby and enjoyed it --- both are fun games, just a little different. Maybe some of you guys should pad up and take on a professional football player or two ---I know rugby's tough , so I'll just imagine getting a rib or two cracked.

Justin