NFL Are NFL athletes the best in ball sports?

Is there another ball sport where the ball moves maybe 10 yards per minute on average that anyone would seriously argue has "the best athletes in ball sports"?
 
Larzon said:
Zzzzzz very few American Footballers have more than 1 or 2 skills. The sport would be so much better if everyone had to play both sides of the ball
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WHAT?????????

Dude, no sport has more athetes who did other sports than the NFL. This is news to you, really?

The great Jim Brown was a GREAT lacrosse player, he ran track also.

Ezekial Elliott was a state 11O hurdles champ, and a basketballer.

I can go on and on and on and on......trust me.
 
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Hellowhosthat said:
It's a nonsense comparison in that case. Who cares what they used to be able to do? What can they do now
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What happened to the NFL can't win the 1500 lol.........well?

Dude, Milt Campbell was a gold and silver medalist in that Olympic decathlon, what is the final event, yep.....1500.

Now give me a rugbyite who can run a 1500, yep.....ya can't.

Roger Carr (Colts WR)another decathlete he also ran the 1500.

Hell, Jim Thorpe ran the 1500 in 4:40.1

Looks like te NFL won all the medals in the 1500 vs rugbyites who no showed.
 
The stats speak for themselves really. Rugby players make more tackles, make carries, more passes, more kicks, do things that football players dont even have in their sport like rucks, mauls, lineouts and scrums, cover more ground, and they do it in around an hour less of broadcast time, even though the actual amount of time the ball is actively in play is over twice as long on average. They're also every bit as big as football players and dont wear pads.

The fact there is a sport so similar to American football that is visibly more athletically demanding and has a larger, more diverse talent pool completely damns football in this debate.
 
How did I forget....

Glenn Morris, Detroit Lions | 1936 (Decathlon)​

In the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, Glenn Morris set a new world record for decathlon score en route to a gold medal. It took four years for him to go from Olympian to NFL player, and even then, he played just four games for the Lions before injuries ended his career.

So the NFL could actually run the 4x1500 relay. Rugby, has nobody.

The total domination of NFL athletes over smaller, weaker, slower and less athletic rugbyites is massive, all rugbyites do is rugby, this thread is all about which sports as the best athletes, not rugby vs football, two different sports. But when it comes to which sport has the better athletes it;s not close at all, NFLers are bigger, stronger and FAR FAR faster, the sport has.....sprinters, wrestlers, shot putters, basketballers, baseballers, discus throwers, hurdlers, long jumpers, high jumpers, while all rugbyites can do is......rugby, no other skills of any kind.

30 Olympians wore NFL uniforms, rugby..................................................zero.

NFLers



Which ball sport has the best athletes, ok? Not where I live we play rugby.......ok?

Terry Long

Terry Long is a mythical figure in the world of the NFL. He started out as a powerlifter and could have potentially become the greatest in that field if he weren’t drafted in the NFL. He played for the Steelers for around eight years before his career ended prematurely.

Who can show me some rugbyite who did other things PRE pro rugby, come on lets see something. anything.

Deion Sanders was a 10.2/20.7 sprinter at FSU, he also played baseball and fiootball, now give me a rugbyite similar to that.

The NFL has twice had "Worlds Greatest Athlete" also twice had "Worlds Fastest Human".....Rugby has nothing,
 
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Remember last year when an 8th tier English rugby player got drafted to the Bills having never played football before and ran a faster 40 than anyone from his position did at that years combine?🤣
 
Sweater of AV said:
Talkin' 'bout real athletes here. Men. Not long jumpers.

Been watching football since 1639. Haven't seen anything like this.

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Its rare to see guys that big out in the open field building up speed like that in American football. They always conveniently leave out that part when they talk about big hits and how big everyone apparently is.
 
TeenageMutantLesnarTurtle said:
Its rare to see guys that big out in the open field building up speed like that in American football. They always conveniently leave out that part when they talk about big hits and how big everyone apparently is.
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One of the great things about rugby is that it's trench warfare combined with open field sprinting, tackling etc but all in a continuous flow. There's no continuity in football, it's very disjointed and often becomes uninteresting.

Rugby is a much more complete game that requires everyone to be elite and there's little to no downtime. Football is single-set plays that last a few seconds. Rinse and repeat. Very standard individual skill sets that are easily evaluated by basic tests. Yes, certain people are very good at those individual skills but they lack greatly in so many other areas.

There's a reason you see rugby players walking onto football fields with no experience, quickly becoming All-Pro, and winning Super Bowls. They're basically bred for combat.

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James Edward McAlister (September 5, 1951 – March 31, 2018) was an American football running back in the National Football League (NFL) during the 1970s. He was drafted by the Oakland Raiders in the sixth round of the 1974 NFL draft. He played college football at UCLA, where he was also a star on the track and field team. He had the best long jump in the world in 1973 set at home in Westwood.

Guy was 6-3 240 had muscles on muscles, jumped 27 feet, a bonafide stud.

Anytime you talk about speed in any sport and a 10.7 anything is mentioned, that is a......hahahahaha~~~

Football;s big guys way bigger than rugbyites, there are sub 10.10 cats in the NF, none of this 10.7ish silliness, 10.7 is .....SLOW. NFLer on a totally different level of speed, another galaxy actually.

The NFLers can't play the game without pads, ya see the hits have VELOCITY behind them, none of this wrestling stuff.

A lot of standing around in rugby, jog, stand, jog....ok ok some action,.....jog, stand, watch.
 
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Sweater of AV said:
One of the great things about rugby is that it's trench warfare combined with open field sprinting, tackling etc but all in a continuous flow. There's no continuity in football, it's very disjointed and often becomes uninteresting.

Rugby is a much more complete game that requires everyone to be elite and there's little to no downtime. Football is single-set plays that last a few seconds. Rinse and repeat. Very standard individual skill sets that are easily evaluated by basic tests. Yes, certain people are very good at those individual skills but they lack greatly in so many other areas.
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And this is precisely why the whole "how many sprinters played it" argument is stupid. Rugby players need to be much more versatile and there is a bigger skill component, it doesnt lend itself to crossover athletes the same way American football does. This is why most of the time when a track guy or whatever goes to rugby, they play sevens, not the full game.
 


Easy to see why they don't need pads, what a joke., sheesh~~~~

Walk, wrestle, jog, some action......jog, walk.....hahahaha~~~~
 
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ONE MORE TIME

Which ball sport has the best athletes

Am I the only one who gets that?

The NFL has a TON of multi talented athletes, rugby doesn't, sheesh~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Not about.......we play rugby where I live......ok?

Fastest NFLer....9.95 fastest rugbyite...10.13(a dozen NFLers faster than that)
Where are those multi talented rugbyites in something other than rugby?

Wow~~~~~
 
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Sir Elzio Dennick said:
ONE MORE TIME

Which ball sport has the best athletes

Am I the only one who gets that?

The NFL has a TON of multi talented athletes, rugby doesn't, sheesh~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Not about.......we play rugby where I live......ok?

Fastest NFLer....9.95 fastest rugbyite...10.13(a dozen NFLers faster than that)
Where are those multi talented rugbyites in something other than rugby?

Wow~~~~~
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Tbf Dwain Chambers flopped at rugby but he still played it. So they can get 9.97.
 
If you can just claim anyone who played then soccer takes the 100m, 200m and I would expect 400m also
 
Hellowhosthat said:
Tbf Dwain Chambers flopped at rugby but he still played it. So they can get 9.97.
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Christian Coleman played HS football.....a 9.7 guy.

Now give me that Rugby 4x1 relay team, ya can't.

I can fill 8 lanes with sub 10.4/9.5 NFLers on a 4x1 team.

Funny watching how ya wiggled out of......no way the NFL wins the 1500,.....ha~~~~~~

Pretty sad when ya have to......he flopped but.......yep, it is that bad trying to talk speed and rugby.
 
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Sir Elzio Dennick said:
Christian Coleman played HS football.....a 9.7 guy.

Now give me that Rugby 4x1 relay team, ya can't.

I can fill 8 lanes with sub 10.4/9.5 NFLers,

Funny watching how ya wiggled out of......no way the NFL wins the 1500,.....ha~~~~~~
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I think we're talking about different things. Is there an active NFL player who would beat a rugby player at 400m tomorrow?
 
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