Rugby Is Better Than American Football

Living in America all you hear about if football. You a lot are either a Patriots fan or Giants. During football season, you do not want to be friends with someone rooting for the other team. This season gives you an excuse to eat all the junk food possible and drink as much beer as humanly possible, without getting looked at funny. Even if you don’t like sports you still have a team you want to win, or at least you know not to root for the other team your friends are for. But what most people don’t know about is the sport rugby. People around here don’t care about it unless you play. But why not; is it possibly because they don’t want their beloved football to be looked down upon? I mean rugby is known for being tougher. It’s football without pads or helmets. How could this not be more fun to watch? Not to mention it’s a lot higher passed. Maybe football fans just can’t keep up with the sport because rugby doesn’t stop every ten seconds. I’m pretty sure if you took any football fan and explained the game of rugby to them, they would fall in love with it more than football. “What is rugby?” I get this question a lot when people find out I play. “What isn’t it” I as in response. To explain it to people from here it’s easiest to say it is a game made up of a few different sports: soccer, football, and track. You have the hitting of football, the kicking of soccer, and the non-stop running of track. So pretty much this is just the best sport ever came up with. In the game of rugby you actually do not pass the ball forwards. You have to pass to players behind you or you have to keep running. This is one of the hardest things to learn how to do. Because in America all we are taught in sports is to throw the ball or kick it forwards. But that is just one of the many reasons rugby is so different from other sports. In the game you also tackle completely different than football. You are taught how to hit correctly so you don’t get hurt, whereas in football you