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Charlie Pendejo said:

Dominic Shields said:

Rugby League was the best to play in my opinion.

Maybe so, but that's pretty inconclusive since you've yet to try
football, by your own admission.

Then again you furriners are typically employed as kickers, as opposed
to real football players.

Tried Rugby League have you ? No girly padding or 84 players allowed,
just constantly on the move and constant tackling for 80 minutes.

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Quoted message said:

Dominic Shields said:

Rugby League was the best to play in my opinion.

Pendejo said:

Maybe so, but that's pretty inconclusive since you've yet to
try football, by your own admission.

Dominic Shields said:

Tried Rugby League have you ? No girly padding or 84 players allowed,
just constantly on the move and constant tackling for 80 minutes.

Nope, but then I wasn't the one making a claim that sounds like "I've
tried 'em all, and X is the best."

Although, constantly moving and tackling with no protective gear is
something we used to do, without much in the way of rules or goals
other than "guy holding the ball tries to avoid all the tacklers", as
kids. And I'll agree with you, 'twas glorious. At least when I had
the ball. As the smallest kid around I was fearless about being
tackled and pretty good at evading pursuers and staying on my feet
after contact, but a lot more apprehensive about trying to tackle
someone else half again my size. Ah, good times, good times.

Tell me, Dominic, do they make a special ruggedized rugby edition of
the Garmin? ;-p

Charlie Pendejo said:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Dominic Shields wrote:
> Rugby League was the best to play in my opinion.

Pendejo said:

Maybe so, but that's pretty inconclusive since you've yet to
try football, by your own admission.

Dominic Shields said:

Tried Rugby League have you ? No girly padding or 84 players allowed,
just constantly on the move and constant tackling for 80 minutes.

Nope, but then I wasn't the one making a claim that sounds like "I've
tried 'em all, and X is the best."

Although, constantly moving and tackling with no protective gear is
something we used to do, without much in the way of rules or goals
other than "guy holding the ball tries to avoid all the tacklers", as
kids. And I'll agree with you, 'twas glorious. At least when I had
the ball. As the smallest kid around I was fearless about being
tackled and pretty good at evading pursuers and staying on my feet
after contact, but a lot more apprehensive about trying to tackle
someone else half again my size. Ah, good times, good times.

Tell me, Dominic, do they make a special ruggedized rugby edition of
the Garmin? ;-p

I suppose I didn't explain the context, Rugby League is a game native
to Northern England, I'm from Wales where Rugby Union is the only
version played, yet still I found league better to play so I'm not
championing something in a parochial sense just stating what I found.

The Garmin is a fascinating thing in terms of the remarkably odd
reactions it provokes that interestingly a watch does not so would
almost worth be wearing purely to wind people up in a game but would
be outlawed in terms of wearing something likely to cause injury.

Back on the previous topic there are some fascinating comments here
from Americans about football (scroll past the article)

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/article2118851.ece

Dominic Shields said:

On Sat, 21 Jul 2007 18:48:55 -0000, Charlie Pendejo

Quoted message said:

Dominic Shields said:

Rugby League was the best to play in my opinion.

Quoted message said:

Maybe so, but that's pretty inconclusive since you've yet to try
football, by your own admission.

Quoted message said:

Then again you furriners are typically employed as kickers, as opposed
to real football players.

Tried Rugby League have you ? No girly padding or 84 players allowed,
just constantly on the move and constant tackling for 80 minutes.

Hate to break it to you but there is a reason that American Football
players wear pads. Bigger, Faster (fatter), and stronger players than
in rugby. And the reason for the high number of players, it requires
specialized skills.

John