PBEM Challenges - Part II!

[Lung]

Originally posted by quinns
I've seen your so-called "physical contact" in your poncy Australian Rules football -- where that poncy official comes out and sticks his poncy fingers out after a goal You call that physical contact? Come over to the states and watch those boys hit. They will show you what real contact is like. If they didn't wear pads and helmets, they would literally kill each other!

Oh... and where is your turn, Lung?

I'm not talking about Aerial Ping-Pong! I'm talking about rugby league! Rugby League IS as physical as gridiron, but without the poncy padding! Even Rugby Union is tougher than gridiron, although Victorians can make thier own arguments about Aussie Rules.

Rugby League is dominated by gang tackling, which involves up to four players tackling the bloke with the ball at once, often from different directions, and all without padding! We can't tackle the player without the ball, but only because it would impede on the skills of the ball runner!

Besides, American football players get about three minutes of rest after each minute or so of play, and that's assuming they don't get replaced, which they always do! In rugby league, they only break at half time or when someone gets seriously injured (e.g broken leg, head knocked off, etc ), and only 12 interchanges in total per team can be made in the entire game, including injured players. Up until the 70's, they didn't even have reserves!!! Injured players either played on or were carried off, leaving their team a player short!

I'll send you a tape of State of Origin rugby league and you can see for yourself
Oh, and i sent you the turn, didn't i? I didn't check before i logged off, so maybe it hadn't finished sending! Damn! I was looking forward to my next turn, too

[Frozzy]

League owns. Even I can't wait to see the Kiwis thrash the Pommies

[Frozzy]

Actually, I follow Super 12 in the Autumn and League on winter. Go Chiefs!

Does the Super 12 start in February or March this year?

[Lung]

Originally posted by redbull
Actually, I follow Super 12 in the Autumn and League on winter. Go Chiefs!

Does the Super 12 start in February or March this year?

Buggered if i know!

Actually, i prefer League, but of course both games **** on American football! In any case, when AUSTRALIA is playing in the Bledisloe Cup, i'm a Wallaby fan all the way

[Frozzy]

Meh... *cough*strippers*cough**cough*

That was odd, even an Aussie like you has to admit. Anyway, I prefer League too. American Football. Private school kids running around in cotton wool

Rugby League, Sport of Champions. As my American friend said:

"Rugby League is vivid and unforgettable. But then, so is a cattle prod."

[Lung]

I've only ever seen reactions of at the sight of rugby league by those unfamiliar with any sort of rugby. Considering the crippling effects of league on the players in old age, perhaps it's too brutal for it's own good, but what a spectacle! Did you see the NRL Grand Final, Redbull? I mean, when Freddy Fittler got creamed after his kick, only to be headbutted by that crazy Warrior who took a 20m run-up, before getting up and mostering the Warriors in defence AND attack to turn the GF around, he not only proved that he is as tough as he is gifted, but how unextraordinary such toughness is in rugby league.

Andrew Johns got concussed 3 times this year, and each time scored a crucial try afterwards (whatever happened to the intention of renaming it a "touchdown"? )! And who familiar with rugby league doesn't know the legend of Johnny Sattler, leading the mighty Rabbitohs to victory in the 1970 GF after breaking his jaw early in the game! He still looks like he could punch holes through concrete, and has got to be one of the toughest men on earth.

And what about your own Kevin Campion, eh? Not content with a bulbous nose from a gazillion broken noses, he gets a gash in his forehead which looked like he was midway through brain surgery, and dismissed it as "part of the game" IT'S JUST A FLESH WOUND!!! Then, in the following game, he splits his nose open like the Grand Canyon without batting an eyelid! Oh well, no pain, no brain!

Let's hear some of Quinns' American Football tough stories in response Hey, i know they're tough - it's just that rugby league is tougher

[Lung]

QC5 Turn 61 to Quinns

Hey, why are your troops doing laps around my city? My citizens wouldn't hurt a fly! Anyway, shouldn't you be busy breeding?

BC6 Turn 58 to CurrawongCrap

My endless glaciers just keep going and going and going!! Will it ever end?!

[quinns]

Well, personally, I never played American Football WITH pads -- always without pads and helmets. And we never took breaks or had substitutes when we played. You're thinking of the professionals and college boys. American Football is played in the streets and fields, too, by us poorer folk who could in no way afford all that fancy gear. Play "tackle football" yourself sometime and see how hard you get hit. A hit is a hit no matter what type of "foot" ball it is.

And Lung, that Warrior is just plain lost Don't pay any attention to him!

[Frozzy]

I saw the GF. Quite a heated affair, I must say . The only bad thing about League at the moment is that that UK League actually wins the Club Cup far too much With League you can be two things: Gifted and quick, or mean and nasty. Like Stacey Jones versus Goliath. We all know Stacey would run through the oaf's legs and score a try


American Football is more commercialised than Christmas. Rugby League just owns. Americans should can that poncy padded game of catch and play Rugby League

Quinns, a Rugby League Tackle is generally marked 1-5 on the Ouch-O-Meter:

1. Hold-up
2. Crumble to the ground under tackle weight
3. Be pulled down by dogs.
4. Dive at their gut and send them flying
5. ONE ON ONE BACKSLAM!!! WOOOO!!!

[Frozzy]

And the speed of the game. The ball never stops. Never! As soon as you are tackled (hold up or backslam) you have to roll the ball back to your "Dummy-Half" within 5 seconds, unless your heads been chopped off, or leg is broken

[quinns]

Turns to Paulno1 and Birdman.

[Lung]

Good for you, Quinns! You should be able to handle rugby league, then I stopped playing when i was 14, because by then i'd already broken my nose and both forearm bones at right-angles simultaneously. I played a game in a park when i was about 26, and couldn't stand up after 10 minutes! I was rather unfit at the time, but when my brother-in-law asked me to play rugby union this year at the tender age of 35, i politely declined (even though it's a bit softer than league)

Hey, RedBull! Speaking of the Grand Final, guess who i saw at Burger King at Newcastle a few days after the grand final?

The following:

Dual rugby union/rugby league international, 3 times premiership winning, Canberra and Canterbury great, general all-round freak Ricky Stuart ;

Former rugby league Australian rep, Penrith great, one-time premier and off-loading freak John "Hoss" Cartwright ;

Former rugby league Australian rep, Canterbury great, two-times premiership winner and enforcer Dean "make 'em" Pay ;

And that blonde trainer dude with the mullet that always runs onto the field in the fluoro shirt for the Roosters! Never have i seen a man so proficient with a water bottle!

It was a procession of stars if ever i have seen one!

It's funny how little guys on TV playing league appear as behemoths in person

[MILAMBER]

turn 49 to david42one

[Frozzy]

It's pretty scary eh? I remember seeing Deon Muir (the former ABs No. 8). He seemed so tiny on TV, and he looked like a monster truck IRL

[quinns]

Turn 141 to Birdman.