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<blockquote data-quote="sanzar" data-source="post: 168756">Definately true that NFL players are increidble in their specific roles and have speed, strength etc that can&#039;t be matched in rugby, but this merely represents the nature of the game not the superiority of the athlete in my opinion. It&#039;s like saying NFL players are inferior to soccer players because an NFL player would run out of puff is forced to run as long as a soccer player. NFL is such a highly specialised game that it lends itself to excellence in specific fields IMO. In rugby you have a 22 man squad for a game with 15 per side on the field. This is quite different from American Football where NFL teams have 40+ players (and college teams up to 70+) for a game with 11 per side on field.So ultimately while it&#039;s all good and well to say a player like Carter just doesn&#039;t match up physically to NFL stars in terms of raw power and speed, it doesn&#039;t really mean anything when there&#039;d be few gridiron players who exhibit the sheer range of skills and roles taken on by a player like Carter.As for which I prefer - well while I&#039;ve come to appreciate certain aspects of gridiron I&#039;ve never really enjoyed watching it simply due to the fact that I feel it&#039;s so specialised and controlled it becomes too mathamatical for me to &quot;get into&quot;. If I were emotionally invested in a team it might help, but that&#039;ll never happen at this point.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="sanzar, post: 168756"] Definately true that NFL players are increidble in their specific roles and have speed, strength etc that can't be matched in rugby, but this merely represents the nature of the game not the superiority of the athlete in my opinion. It's like saying NFL players are inferior to soccer players because an NFL player would run out of puff is forced to run as long as a soccer player. NFL is such a highly specialised game that it lends itself to excellence in specific fields IMO. In rugby you have a 22 man squad for a game with 15 per side on the field. This is quite different from American Football where NFL teams have 40+ players (and college teams up to 70+) for a game with 11 per side on field. So ultimately while it's all good and well to say a player like Carter just doesn't match up physically to NFL stars in terms of raw power and speed, it doesn't really mean anything when there'd be few gridiron players who exhibit the sheer range of skills and roles taken on by a player like Carter. As for which I prefer - well while I've come to appreciate certain aspects of gridiron I've never really enjoyed watching it simply due to the fact that I feel it's so specialised and controlled it becomes too mathamatical for me to "get into". If I were emotionally invested in a team it might help, but that'll never happen at this point. [/QUOTE]

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