Rugby World Cup!

Do you/ did you care?

  • ABSOLUTLEY

    Votes: 1 12.5%
  • Rugby?

    Votes: 1 12.5%
  • Nope.

    Votes: 6 75.0%
  • Somewhat but only when my team does well

    Votes: 1 12.5%

  • Total voters
    8

NZ_Forever

One of the "original PvP terrorisers"
Hello, New Zealand are now the Rugby World Cup champions and after a roaring tournament I thought it prudent to ask everyone if you watched/cared and how you enjoyed it. I know I won't get many answers (cause Rugby isn't that popular in America. No racism just fact) but I'd like to hear your thoughts.
 

PD400

<3
It's very similar to American Football, which I think is why it's not really played here. I hate football, so I doubt I would enjoy Rugby.

Congrats on the win...I guess?
 

Gateship

Lamp Post King
i saw a bit of it, but the only thing i don't get is the thingy where the ref throws the ball into the 2 lines of people. but one of my friends that moved here from NZ wants to play rugby but our high school doesn't offer it. but man, those rugby players could pummel any football player easily, that is if they aren't whirring their sissy little pads :p
 

SgtSpike

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I have an All Blacks flag that my wife got me when she was in NZ. :p That's about the extent of my rugby knowledge though... I do love American football, so I'm sure I'd love rubgy if it was played more here.
 

NZ_Forever

One of the "original PvP terrorisers"
It's very similar to American Football, which I think is why it's not really played here.
I'm not sure about that. I feel as though American football and Rugby are similar the way Golf and Cricket are.
I hate football, so I doubt I would enjoy Rugby.
Yes well over here you either pick one or the other but you would be in the majority. You've got the New Zealand spirit :p

I have an All Blacks flag that my wife got me when she was in NZ. :p That's about the extent of my rugby knowledge though... I do love American football, so I'm sure I'd love rubgy if it was played more here.
The extent of my American Football knowledge is from Remember the Titans. I get real confused by the attacking teams and defensive teams being different.
 

PD400

<3
I find plenty of distractions on screen that have nothing to do with the game, so I've never learned, :p
 

FrothingLuck

Most Disliked Since 2015!
I always thought that rugby was the barbaric interpretation of what New Zealanders thought of American Football.

You mean you people actually have rules to that game?
 

SgtSpike

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I always thought that rugby was the barbaric interpretation of what New Zealanders thought of American Football.

You mean you people actually have rules to that game?
I like barbaric interpretations of sports.

For example, I would enjoy Nascar a lot more if there were no rules/limits to what sort of chassis or propulsion device you could use (so long as it still puts 4 wheels on the roadway). Let people be inventive. As it is, it's not much more exciting than watching cars go by on the interstate.
 

PD400

<3
Something tells me Nascar would be amazingly popular if televised death's of consenting individuals in a road race involving armored vehicles, spiked bumpers, kneecappers, machineguns on the roof was legal.

I know I'd watch it just to see cars explode. :3
 

SgtSpike

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Something tells me Nascar would be amazingly popular if televised death's of consenting individuals in a road race involving armored vehicles, spiked bumpers, kneecappers, machineguns on the roof was legal.

I know I'd watch it just to see cars explode. :3
+1

:D

Although, even though I say that now, when I do see video of someone dying, it makes me sick to my stomach. So maybe, all sorts of risk and wreckage without people dying, somehow.
 

PD400

<3
Blech! I want to see severed limbs flying everywhere!

Although in all seriousness, some sort of no risk involved, battle race would be awesome. I have fond memories of throwing water balloons at my friends from ATV's as a kid, pretending we were playing Mario Kart.
 

SgtSpike

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There was an epic race I went to see down at the Douglas County speedway (a 1/4 mile oval)... dubbed a "trailer race". I think about two dozen cars and trucks and other sorts of vehicles entered the race, each towing a trailer of some sort. Well, not so much a race, as it was a game of survival. You had to try to be the only one with more than 3 feet of your trailer left by the time the race was finished.

On top of that, midway through the race, a gigantic motorhome came out to play, courtesy of the racetrack personnel... probably a 30-footer. They would do things like throw bags of flower or rotten tomatoes at the windshields of other drivers. So then, some of the trailer-towing racers ganged up on it, managing to do a pit-manuver to spin it a couple of times (how the heck you do that to a 30 foot vehicle while also towing your own trailer is beyond me). The third time around, they got it sideways on the track, and a couple of them with larger trucks managed to tip it over on its side. They stopped the race just long enough for the guys to jump out of it, then the mayhem continued...

Anyway, that was one of the most joyous evenings of racing I've ever had.
 

NZ_Forever

One of the "original PvP terrorisers"
Here's Wikipedia's page comparing the two. Their more different than I thought they were, I guess.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_American_football_and_rugby_league
Trolllollollollol. I hate league. This is a thread for the Rugby Union World Cup. (Rugby Union is the better and bigger one)
I always thought that rugby was the barbaric interpretation of what New Zealanders thought of American Football.

You mean you people actually have rules to that game?
lol Rugby came first and is international, rather then created second and being an American sport. Also, of course it has rules! What REAL game doesn't?
 

PD400

<3
lol Rugby came first and is international
Wrong. Ruby and American Football were conceived at the same time, both as derivatives of Football (Soccar/Soccer was a term coined by a british man when multiple games surfaced under the name football, as the term was used loosely to define any game similar in rules.

Did some looking into that a few years ago.
 
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