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Football

DetlefK

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3. I prefer Rugby to Football.

Reply to Cracklin Charlie (Reply #1)

Wed Feb 1, 2017, 11:34 AM

Feb 2017

The game is more fluid and faster because there are less rules causing a time-out. And it has less violence because you are only allowed to tackle the person that actually has the ball.

Once I saw a funny game: One of the teams had hired a player who used to be a sprint-runner. A quick pass to the side to this guy and he shot off like a rocket along the sideline. He was damn fast because he wasn't weighed down by protective gear. They got several easy touchdowns in this fashion.

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