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Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:
I -- okay? I watched about a half-hour of rugby in Scotland with my friend's dad, because I showed up about an hour early for our date, because I'm a fucking retard who couldn't read a bus schedule. I could see getting into rugby. There were moments where the whole thing was very exciting, which I did not anticipate, even a little bit. It's unfortunate that our hatred of soccer has caused us to throw rugby in the pile of irrelevant sports, because it really is pretty cool.
As someone who could never get into NFL football and even finds CFL stuff barely watchable -- although attending live games is always a different story -- rugby almost instantly got me hooked. Strangely enough, they'd always show this and sumo on television in Beijing, and I'd rather watch either of those sports than a single period of hockey, even though as a Canadian I've seen more hockey games than most American fans through sheer ambient exposure.
I think the appeal is somewhat like other sports where people are really beating the fuck out of each other, which is probably why I enjoy boxing, although MMA is on some other level that I can't really appreciate, except maybe at the documentary, Smashing Machine level. It is kind of crazy seeing some guy taken out by a capoeira heel hook though.
Anyhow, yeah... rugby has all kinds of really detailed rules, and lately they've started using these Experimental Law Variations which have changed the game up again, so even if you generally know the basics it's kind of a mess sometimes. I'd stick with rugby union over rugby league; the latter has this rule that when you're tackled, you're immediately allowed to get up, sort of like American football, which automatically makes it suckier to me. But maybe that's your thing, I don't know. I'd start with stuff like the just-passed Six Nations tournament, which is all of the United Kingdom, Ireland, Europe and France playing, or the Summer or Autumn Test matches which are where the Southern Hemisphere usually beats the crap out of the Northern Hemisphere, because they've got Samoans and Maoris and shit who are like a race of natural-born rugby players, sort of like how black people are good at the current game of basketball. (If you watch old rugby matches, like from 1900-1940, it's almost the same white guys who played basketball with James Naismith. Some of those old All Black versions of the haka are hilarious, like watching Bush doing his African tribal dance.)
The other big difference for me between American football and rugby is the fluidity of the play, which means it's a lot easier to stay engaged for short-attention-spam me, when they're not constantly taking tv breaks and the ratio of gameplay to setup is not completely out of whack. |
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HEY LAUDABLE, ARE YOU AN ORTON FAN NOW HURF HURF SNARF by laudablepuss 04/03/2009, 3:23pm PDT 
Re: HEY LAUDABLE, ARE YOU AN ORTON FAN NOW HURF HURF SNARF by Ice Cream Jonsey 04/03/2009, 4:38pm PDT
Also by Ice Cream Jonsey 04/06/2009, 3:40pm PDT
Talk about basketball. NT by Quétinbec 04/06/2009, 4:32pm PDT
Cavs in six. NT by Ice Cream Jonsey 04/06/2009, 4:35pm PDT
Talk about it passionately, please. NT by Quétinbec 04/06/2009, 6:34pm PDT
And slower... a little slower... that's it, yeah, lays up with black men yeaaaah NT by Quétinbot 04/06/2009, 6:42pm PDT
I can't possibly think about this now. Or maybe ever. Perpetual headache >:[ NT by laudablepuss 04/07/2009, 9:36am PDT
ICJ, do you mourn the loss of Marcus Camby? NT by Quétinbec 04/07/2009, 3:35pm PDT
YES! What happened to him was bullshit. by Ice Cream Jonsey 04/07/2009, 4:46pm PDT
Gasol will average 30 points against them in Camby's absence. It'll be their end NT by Quétinbec 04/08/2009, 5:33pm PDT
The Nuggets could have Camby, Billups, & homecourt, and they still wouldn't win NT by Horrible Gelatinous Blob 04/08/2009, 8:39pm PDT
They wouldn't lose so bad, though.They learnt nothing from their Mutumbo experie NT by Quétinbec 04/09/2009, 5:57pm PDT
I can't believe you guys are talking about the Nuggets. :( NT by laudablepuss 04/09/2009, 7:30pm PDT
You can talk about them too if you like. Talk about K-Mart's contract. NT by Quétinbec 04/09/2009, 9:16pm PDT
laudable: K-Mart's contract actually makes living out here 0.001% worse.CONFIRM? NT by Ice Cream Jonsey 04/09/2009, 9:25pm PDT
What. NT by me. by laudablepuss 04/09/2009, 9:42pm PDT
Laudablepuss has ruined our Nuggets conversation. Let's talk about pay. by Quétinbec 04/10/2009, 5:14pm PDT
Re: Laudablepuss has ruined our Nuggets conversation. Let's talk about pay. by Ice Cream Jonsey 04/10/2009, 11:58pm PDT
Has Cleveland recovered from losing Chet and Erik? NT by Caltrops Helpdesk 04/11/2009, 12:50am PDT
Re: Laudablepuss has ruined our Nuggets conversation. Let's talk about pay. by Choson 04/11/2009, 7:16am PDT
OMG a heel hook is a submission not a kick, OMG. NT by Fussbett 04/11/2009, 12:34pm PDT
Whoops, misread it. by Choson 04/11/2009, 12:51pm PDT
Hmmm... by Quétinbec 04/14/2009, 4:54pm PDT
Re: Laudablepuss has ruined our Nuggets conversation. Let's talk about pay. by Quétinbec 04/14/2009, 4:43pm PDT
Feature request: compose new message NT by laudablepuss 04/11/2009, 6:27am PDT
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