Sports Hangout

[Anonymous]

Football is full contact and rugby is not. If football was not full contact, then we wouldn't wear pads, would we?

Facts:
1. An average hit in football is equal to 98 g's (98 times earth's gravity). The hardest hits are about 150 g's. The pressure from an F-16 fighter jet is 10 g's.
2. If unpadded, a football player could be concussed, or die from the impact of a hit this hard.
3. The average football player hits with nearly a ton (2000 pounds, or since you seem to be european 907 kg)

I love facts, feel free to rebut, I want to know if I'm wrong.

98% of all facts are made up on the spot.

[DrGreenThumb]

Football is full contact and rugby is not. If football was not full contact, then we wouldn't wear pads, would we?

Facts:
1. An average hit in football is equal to 98 g's (98 times earth's gravity). The hardest hits are about 150 g's. The pressure from an F-16 fighter jet is 10 g's.
2. If unpadded, a football player could be concussed, or die from the impact of a hit this hard.
3. The average football player hits with nearly a ton (2000 pounds, or since you seem to be european 907 kg)

I love facts, feel free to rebut, I want to know if I'm wrong.

yer your WRONG

"Football is full contact and rugby is not" hahahahahaha

In rugby the smallest guy on the field can tackle the biggest guy on the field because they know how to tackle, they dont just run into each other like neanderthal NFL players, they go for the legs, and have you heard of a side step??

And im not european {i see they still teach you nothing about the rest of the world} Australasian {aus & nz} and we compete agaisnt australia all the time,who is the strongest sporting nation for its size bar none

Id love to see an NZ winger have a running race with your fasted running back

You think your the best at everything you WRONG again

haha even your multi million dollar NBA dreamteam hasnt won gold in last 5 olympic games LOL

[Strongbad]

yer your WRONG

"Football is full contact and rugby is not" hahahahahaha

In rugby the smallest guy on the field can tackle the biggest guy on the field because they know how to tackle, they dont just run into each other like neanderthal NFL players, they go for the legs, and have you heard of a side step??

And im not european {i see they still teach you nothing about the rest of the world} Australasian {aus & nz} and we compete agaisnt australia all the time,who is the strongest sporting nation for its size bar none

Id love to see an NZ winger have a running race with your fasted running back

You think your the best at everything you WRONG again

haha even your multi million dollar NBA dreamteam hasnt won gold in last 5 olympic games LOL

You know absolutely nothing about football. Have you ever played on an organized team or even at all? There are many techniques to master. They don't just run around and hit each other. You make it seem like NFL players don't go for the legs. You're wrong. I would like you to become farmiliar with defensive MVP and one of the greatest players in the league, Bob Sanders.

As for the speed issue you talk about, unless you have some sort of numbers to compare making challenges like that is pointless. Needless to say there are some really fast players in the NFL. I don't know who the fastest is, but Devon Hester is a blur of lightening.

The NBA? Yeah, it is a fucking joke.

[Chibi-Suke]

98% of all facts are made up on the spot.

No 100% of those facts are true, and researched. That is why they are called facts.

I admit, I phrased it bluntly when I said rugby wasn't a full contact sport, what I meant is that it has rules preventing some of the same tackles that are made in football. I want you to know that I have nothing against rugby. In fact, I've played it a couple of times and really enjoyed it. The thing is, football is my favorite sport (and has been since I was 5), I don't like it being insulted. I apologize if you thought I was insulting rugby, I was actually defending football.

Originally Posted by DrGreenThumb
im not european {i see they still teach you nothing about the rest of the world} Australasian {aus & nz} and we compete agaisnt australia all the time,who is the strongest sporting nation for its size bar none

I should probably apologize for this too. I was making abit of a guess, seeing as Rugby was invented in England. I forgot it's most popular in Australia and New Zealand. I just wanted to put it in the metric system because it'd be easier to understand, the American Standard system is so messed up.

Yeah, they don't teach us much about other countries, but I've never been a big fan of the school system. I've tried to learn on my own, and you can see the kind of job I'm doing (bad).

Id love to see an NZ winger have a running race with your fasted running back

Back in defensive mode, the running backs are actually really fast without the pads.

You think your the best at everything you WRONG again

I really do not think I personally am the best at anything, which is backed up by the fact that I had to apologize for my shitty research.

If you're talking about as an American, we're really bad at not bombing people. And when we do bomb people, we usually miss the target and hit some civilians. END THE IRAQ WAR!!!

haha even your multi million dollar NBA dreamteam hasnt won gold in last 5 olympic games LOL

I hate NBA...


I think we should stop insulting each other's sports and just play...

[Cosmic]

Football is full contact and rugby is not. If football was not full contact, then we wouldn't wear pads, would we?

Facts:
1. An average hit in football is equal to 98 g's (98 times earth's gravity). The hardest hits are about 150 g's. The pressure from an F-16 fighter jet is 10 g's.
2. If unpadded, a football player could be concussed, or die from the impact of a hit this hard.
3. The average football player hits with nearly a ton (2000 pounds, or since you seem to be european 907 kg)

I love facts, feel free to rebut, I want to know if I'm wrong.

Rugby is pretty much full contact so I'm not sure where you're getting that idea from.

I'm also not entirely convinced that NFL players are 10-15 times more powerful than a fighter jet.

[DrGreenThumb]

Yer i know theres some real talent in NFL ,U.s have been called the sleeping giant of rugby...
I do watch abit on sky tv, but how they reset every play just makes it so slow...
But id like to see your superstars Play a full 80mins with no dam reset plays every 10 secs...

One thing thats cool about NFL is you can try tackle buy grabbing any part off the body,even there hair! i seen some long haired madman getting ripped a new one, it was funny as

[Ton]

There's rules against dropping people down vertical onto their necks/hitting around their necks, but that's not to say it doesn't happen all the time.....

Personally I don't anyone should talk shit about anoter person's favourite sports unless they have an indepth understanding of it, not just a passing judgement.

[Strongbad]

Yer i know theres some real talent in NFL ,U.s have been called the sleeping giant of rugby...
I do watch abit on sky tv, but how they reset every play just makes it so slow...
But id like to see your superstars Play a full 80mins with no dam reset plays every 10 secs...

One thing thats cool about NFL is you can try tackle buy grabbing any part off the body,even there hair! i seen some long haired madman getting ripped a new one, it was funny as

I would like to see anyone play football without downs.

[Cosmic]

There's rules against dropping people down vertical onto their necks/hitting around their necks, but that's not to say it doesn't happen all the time.....

Personally I don't anyone should talk shit about anoter person's favourite sports unless they have an indepth understanding of it, not just a passing judgement.

Agreed, that's why I don't post in the footie threads for example.

Gotta say the F16 comparison seems more like the punchline to a Chuck Norris joke than an actual fact though.

[Ton]

haha didn't notice that before

NFL can watch an episode of 60 minutes in 22 seconds

[DrGreenThumb]

Hey ton

Bring back the biff...

[Strongbad]

Gotta say the F16 comparison seems more like the punchline to a Chuck Norris joke than an actual fact though.

It's not saying that an f16 running into a person. Just comparing the force exerted on the human body while flying inside of one.

[DrGreenThumb]

Off topic..

Butone of the funniest things ive read is that the U.s owns the internet

I suppose you own the moon to

[Cosmic]

Ah OK, I get it now Strongbad. The original wording was a bit misleading though.

haha didn't notice that before

NFL can watch an episode of 60 minutes in 22 seconds

There's no such thing as evolution, just a list of creatures the NFL has allowed to live.

[Chibi-Suke]

Off topic..

Butone of the funniest things ive read is that the U.s owns the internet

I suppose you own the moon to

Ofcourse we own the moon, we put our flag on it. (sarcasm)

That's ridiculus (spelled wrong, don't care), it's the world wide web.


oh, and here's one of the diagrams I got those facts from...



link to page: Football Physics: The Anatomy of a Hit