Rugby Explained for American Football Fans
Added 2025-11-10 08:00:11 +0000 UTCComments
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Killermcknight
2025-11-13 02:50:35 +0000 UTCSaint Helen’s is rugby league haha. My team play them twice a year :) I’m Castleford tigers 🐯
Mark Rudd
2025-11-12 04:32:16 +0000 UTCI was born and grew up in Rugby, where William Webb Ellis famously picked up a football and ran with it on the Rugby School playing field in 1823 thus inventing 'Rugby'
Mark Griffin
2025-11-11 11:40:43 +0000 UTCI've been a season ticket holder with Bath Rugby (Union) for many years, so really enjoyed your reaction to this one. For Union, I'd say scores are similar to the NFL. In bad weather it could be 12-10, and top teams in good weather could be 45-40.
Graham Bullman
2025-11-10 20:45:00 +0000 UTCUsain Bolt, at his absolute peak, hit 27mph, and even that’s for only a few seconds. You’ll be lucky if even a very fast American football or rugby or soccer player ever gets to 22-24mph
Moody Marco
2025-11-10 15:04:43 +0000 UTCA typical score between 2 good teams would be 13-11, 25-10, 17-5, 31-20, etc etc. Rule of thumb is roughly take the average soccer score and multiply both team’s score by 10 (very rough guide)
Moody Marco
2025-11-10 14:45:06 +0000 UTCWith regards to a better team constantly scoring on you, that happens a lot; my country (Scotland, top 5 rugby union team in the world) played your country (USA) just a couple of weeks ago. The score was 85-0, highlights are on YouTube 🤣
Moody Marco
2025-11-10 14:43:14 +0000 UTCRugby is a game played by men with funny shaped balls
Moody Marco
2025-11-10 14:40:06 +0000 UTCHardly anyone in England would call rugby, football. You might very occasionally hear rugby football
Gary Wade
2025-11-10 13:43:44 +0000 UTCI played Union from about 7 to about 19, great sport.
Tim Covill
2025-11-10 13:43:05 +0000 UTCI think he meant to say England instead of Australia in the caption about the history of League, although of course it may well be similar in Australia too and that’s definitely where League is most popular now by far
Kieran B
2025-11-10 12:11:44 +0000 UTCThe Atherstone ball game is a type of mob football
Kieran B
2025-11-10 12:08:05 +0000 UTCIf you look into the comedian Johnny Vegas he’s a big St Helen’s fan
Kieran B
2025-11-10 11:42:30 +0000 UTCThey're absolutely separate sports; separate rules, world cups, even the players differ physicality (and therefore appearance). The working-class thing is also accurate, it's probably not something you're used to in America, but sports here are still largely class based, and the Union players are predominantly public (which means private) schoolboys, and the opposite for League players. This also goes for the fans, if you go to a game of either, you can clearly see a difference in supporter.
Jason
2025-11-10 09:22:27 +0000 UTCFYI..you have Rugby League jerseys, in case you were wondering.
Lemmy's Mole
2025-11-10 08:22:31 +0000 UTCScore can differ depending on the teams playing the game, I dont think u can have or say what a games score will average at the end. U can have a game end 10-7 or 64-9 or 20-14, literally anything there's no average score really.
Rob Jefferies
2025-11-10 08:18:40 +0000 UTCHowdy :)
Jamie Derry
2025-11-10 08:17:20 +0000 UTC
