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minus-squarex00z@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 days ago that no other country in the world partakes in. Well there’s rugby. Maybe they should call it American rugby.
minus-squareohulancutash@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·2 days agoToo much body armour to be called rugby.
minus-squarequpada@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up6·2 days agoAlso far too many clock stoppages. Rugby: an 80-minute game that completes in around 100 minutes, inclusive of the 15 minute break between halves. Gridiron: a 60-minute game that inexplicably takes 3.5 hours. Very little fucking about in rugby, they just get on with it.
Well there’s rugby.
Maybe they should call it American rugby.
Too much body armour to be called rugby.
Also far too many clock stoppages.
Rugby: an 80-minute game that completes in around 100 minutes, inclusive of the 15 minute break between halves.
Gridiron: a 60-minute game that inexplicably takes 3.5 hours.
Very little fucking about in rugby, they just get on with it.