Re: World Rugby: All Blacks down Springboks in qtr final

Post #124,722

11/8/03 7:34:05 AM

11/8/03 7:38:42 AM

Somehow I figured "all blacks" was NZ. I seem to remember Olympic athletes wearing black.

Isn't there a variant of rugby called "Australian rules football"? Think I saw this once - rugby with more gouging, kicking, and mayhem, and a primitive type of forward pass. Something like "ballown", the distant ancestor of American football.

[link|http://wiwi.essortment.com/americanfootbal_rwff.htm|http://wiwi.essortme...nfootbal_rwff.htm]

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[link|http://www.uclarugby.com/origin_rugby.html|http://www.uclarugby...origin_rugby.html]

Note - the main score in American football is called a "touchdown", because originally, the player had to physically put the ball down on the ground once past the goal line. Now, it's geometric - any part of the ball only need pass an imaginary perpendicular plane passing through the goal line. This often leads to controversies as the ball is sometimes hidden amid a tangle of offense and defense.

I don't know if you've seen much American football, but it's extremely entertaining. I don't get to see much rugby. Unfortunate - this tournament sounds like fun.

-drl

Edited by deSitter Nov. 8, 2003, 07:38:42 AM EST

Re: World Rugby: All Blacks down Springboks in qtr final

Somehow I figured "all blacks" was NZ. I seem to remember Olympic athletes wearing black.

Isn't there a variant of rugby called "Australian rules football"? Think I saw this once - rugby with more gouging, kicking, and mayhem, and a primitive type of forward pass. Something like "ballown", the distant ancestor of American football.

[link|http://wiwi.essortment.com/americanfootbal_rwff.htm|http://wiwi.essortme...nfootbal_rwff.htm]

Note - the main score in American football is called a "touchdown", because originally, the player had to physically put the ball down on the ground once past the goal line. Now, it's geometric - any part of the ball only need pass an imaginary perpendicular plane passing through the goal line. This often leads to controversies as the ball is sometimes hidden amid a tangle of offense and defense.

I don't know if you've seen much American football, but it's extremely entertaining. I don't get to see much rugby. Unfortunate - this tournament sounds like fun.

-drl

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Post #124,753

by dmarker

11/8/03 4:13:58 PM

Re: Aussie Rules

It is a different type of game, very athletic. It involves kicking the ball down the oval shaped field & trying to make the final kick between two uprights at the end of the field. Outsde the two goal posts as two smaller posts & if the ball goes thru them it is a lesser score. (I think it is called a 'side' & is worth 1 point vs 6 for a 'goal'.

You can run with the ball but have to bounce it every 15 paces. If you are tackled (grabbed) you must let the ball go.

Players pass the ball by hand, by punching the ball, by kicking the ball. If a player catches the ball on the full, it is a 'Mark' and they get a free kick. Aussie rulles is a very fast game & has a fanatical following in Victoria & Western Australia & somewhat in Sth Australia. It has marginal following elsewhere but growing support in Queensland who have now won the premiership 3 years in a row.

Re NFL - have a young relative who is a quaterback somewhere on the East Coast (scholarship). I enjoy watching the game as it has lots of tactical action.

If anything, in time, Rugby will become more like NFL than the other way round.

Cheers Doug

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