NFL NFL Rugby Team

[Sir Elzio Dennick]

So the starting 15, the fantasy, obviously,

Jim Brown....have read he was a 10 flat 100yards cat, now add 6-2 230 at a time where D line were 270ish and we still had white DB's.
Bo Jackson......far faster than his 10.39 PR, he was like Deion (10.26) he knew football was his $$$$$ they toyed with track.
GRONK
MEGATRON
Hercshel Walker......legit 10.23, not 10.22 as we see in the below video
Cookie Gilchrist.....actually an AFLer, a 250 pounder with speed in the 60's, cat went straight from HS to the CFL then the Bills, first AFL er to rush for a 1000 yards
Marcus Dupree.....at 230 pounds he came in second at the Mississippi track champs in the 100, lost to future WR holder Calvin Smith
Lawrence Taylor.....do doubt he could stay cool enought to play rugby. Only footballer where grown ass men were actually afraid of, or so I have read.
Ray Lewis
Tony Gonzalez
Antonio Gates
Shannon Sharpe
Earl Campbell
Christian "Nigerian Nightmare" Okoye
Derrick Henry

coming off the bench

Nick Bosa
JJ Watt
Deacon Jones
TJ Watt
Night Train Lane.....known as a very bad man
John Henry Johnson.....see above

Do recommend these reads....

The Courtship of Marcus Dupree by Willie Morris
Out OF Bounds....Steve Delsohn and Jim Brown
END ZONE....Don Delillo ficton

The House on the Borderland William Hope Hodgson......if you like HP Lovecraft, this cat influensed him. Book from 1908 a classic in Cosmic Doom, a must read. A Xmas gift.

Hodgson was kiled in WWII, bummer, a great writer,


Imagine this playing rugby

 

[Hellowhosthat]

What's their cardio like? You need cardio way more in rugby than in gridiron as you have to cover way more ground.

 

[Pancake Sprawl]

What's their cardio like? You need cardio way more in rugby than in gridiron as you have to cover way more ground.

plus you're playing a lot more than in the NFL. a lot of NFL guys need oxygen after a single play, the average play is 4 seconds. if you're so exhausted after 4 secs you need oxygen you can't go in Rugby.

 

[Hellowhosthat]

plus you're playing a lot more than in the NFL. a lot of NFL guys need oxygen after a single play, the average play is 4 seconds. if you're so exhausted after 4 secs you need oxygen you can't go in Rugby.

I think if you wanted a serious team I think you'd have to start with good running backs as that's the position in NFL teams where you actually have to run at defensive players and make them commit.

Obviously they'd need to work on ball handling skills etc as they're not as important in NFL.

 

[Pancake Sprawl]

I think if you wanted a serious team I think you'd have to start with good running backs as that's the position in NFL teams where you actually have to run at defensive players and make them commit.

Obviously they'd need to work on ball handling skills etc as they're not as important in NFL.

i would put DBs in there too. they're not ball handlers but they're usually not overly muscular and have great agility and speed. i'm surprised TS didn't mention Haloti Ngata, he's one of the better NFL players who is actually known for playing Rugby.

 

[Sir Elzio Dennick]

What's their cardio like? You need cardio way more in rugby than in gridiron as you have to cover way more ground.

Obviously if that were real all those guys would be training for that.

 

[Hellowhosthat]

Obviously if that were real all those guys would be training for that.

Sure but you don't automatically have good cardio and they'd lose some of their speed training for it.

 

[Sir Elzio Dennick]

Sure but you don't automatically have good cardio and they'd lose some of their speed training for it.

That's not true at all, I was a sprinter ran a ton of 300's to build that SPEED ENDURANCE for the 100. Hell yes that helped my cardio which is speed endurance.

If all those cats I mentioned had grown up wit no football they would have got into rugby and soccer just like those who didn't have football.

 

[Hellowhosthat]

That's not true at all, I was a sprinter ran a ton of 300's to build that SPEED ENDURANCE for the 100. Hell yes that helped my cardio which is speed endurance.

If all those cats I mentioned had grown up wit no football they would have got into rugby and soccer just like those who didn't have football.

You're not training to run a 300, you're training to run for two 40 minute halves.

 

[Sir Elzio Dennick]

You're not training to run a 300, you're training to run for two 40 minute halves.

You're not getting it, I wasn;t running the 300, that is what you run to build cardio, nobody runs the 300,

If we are going to get real with this fantasy then we put those NFLers in rugby at an early age like those who play it.

 

[Hellowhosthat]

You're not getting it, I wasn;t running the 300, that is what you run to build cardio, nobody runs the 300,

If we are going to get real with this fantasy then we put those NFLers in rugby at an early age like those who play it.

Then there's no real way to know if they'd be good or not.

Dwain Chambers tried rugby after he got banned from sprinting and didn't make it. That's a guy with a 9.97 100m time and a world championship bronze medal as well as a world championship gold in indoor 60m.

 

[Sir Elzio Dennick]

Then there's no real way to know if they'd be good or not.

Dwain Chambers tried rugby after he got banned from sprinting and didn't make it. That's a guy with a 9.97 100m time and a world championship bronze medal as well as a world championship gold in indoor 60m.

Chambers was around 180 pounds if that, all those I mentioned far bigger than that.

Yep, if a guy can play football at an NFL level chances are he can play rugby, it's not complex at all, a running wrestling match.

People always try to sell both rugby and soccer as a constant/full run, when it's not, those guys jog around a lot.

 

[Hellowhosthat]

Chambers was around 180 pounds if that, all those I mentioned far bigger than that.

Yep, if a guy can play football at an NFL level chances are he can play rugby, it's not complex at all, a running wrestling match.

People always try to sell both rugby and soccer as a constant/full run, when it's not, those guys jog around a lot.

They're different sports requiring different skill sets. I don't know why you think NFL stars are superheroes who would automatically dominate every sport they tried.

 

[LEWIS540]

Sad thing is TS is so dumb/ignorant he genuinely believes that "if you gave those guy six months training", they'd be the greatest rugby team in history.

 

[Sir Elzio Dennick]

They're different sports requiring different skill sets. I don't know why you think NFL stars are superheroes who would automatically dominate every sport they tried.

Browns running back Milt Campbell won the 1960 Olympic decathlon, his 13.4 hurdles time lead the world, he was also a great swimmer.

There has been at least a dozen NFLers who long jumped over 26 feet.

About a dozen who ran a sub 14.00 in the hurdles.

Around 20 were Olympic sprinters.

Tons played basketball or baseball.

Bo Jackson twice Alabama decathlon champion.

TONS of NFLers grew up running track and playing other sports besides football.

 

[Sir Elzio Dennick]

Sad thing is TS is so dumb/ignorant he genuinely believes that "if you gave those guy six months training", they'd be the greatest rugby team in history.

if those guys I mentioned had grew up playing rugby instead of football they would have starred,

 

[Hellowhosthat]

Browns running back Milt Campbell won the 1960 Olympic decathlon, his 13.4 hurdles time lead the world, he was also a great swimmer.

There has been at least a dozen NFLers who long jumped over 26 feet.

About a dozen who ran a sub 14.00 in the hurdles.

Around 20 were Olympic sprinters.

Tons played basketball or baseball.

Bo Jackson twice Alabama decathlon champion.

TONS of NFLers grew up running track and playing other sports besides football.

I didn't say some of them wouldn't be good at rugby. It just wouldn't always be the ones you think.

 

[Sir Elzio Dennick]

I didn't say some of them wouldn't be good at rugby. It just wouldn't always be the ones you think.

I played football and ran track, trust me rugby would be no problem and I'm sure most (no not the big guys or kickers) would have any problems at all with it.

It's not chess.

 

[Hellowhosthat]

I played football and ran track, trust me rugby would be no problem and I'm sure most (no not the big guys or kickers) would have any problems at all with it.

It's not chess.

If you've never played rugby then I don't think you can appreciate what type of game it is.

Have you ever watched a full game of rugby?

 

[Sir Elzio Dennick]

If you've never played rugby then I don't think you can appreciate what type of game it is.

Have you ever watched a full game of rugby?

Yep, sure have I get the game that is how I knew those I mentioned would be good at it,

I don;t think you really get what kind of athlete it takes to play NFL football.

Cowboys runningback...




Stop acting as if guys far slower and less athletic can play rugby over multi taleted NFLers.