This NFL hit makes my stomach hurt

[Shum]

Good time to get into rugby, world cup starts in a couple of weeks time.

[Atac]

Good time to get into rugby, world cup starts in a couple of weeks time.

Yeah I just watched some Canada vs US game (match?) yesterday. Not sure if that's relevant to the world cup or not.

[Shum]

Pre-tournament warm up matches are especially important for those teams who aren't in the two major international competitions, the 6 Nations in Europe and the Tri Nations down in the Southern Hemisphere.

I'm going to see the USA play Russia during the tournament, should be a goodie!

[Sexual_Chocolate]

Good time to get into rugby, world cup starts in a couple of weeks time.

Flag that.... WARRIORS FTW!

[Shum]

Ha ha true that. Big time games in the next fortnight.

[Sexual_Chocolate]

Hard. gotta stick in that top 4 so everyones at Mt smart and not at the ABs vs Tonga match haha

[capo ultra]

that's sumo at speed that is

hockey seems ridiculously harsh tbh, crazy bastards. Ice Hockey teams have a player whose job it is to intimidate the other team and get revenge for bad tackles or something isn't there? Mental

[Molzie]

and lol @ "that made frankie crankie"

[pkay]

that's sumo at speed that is

hockey seems ridiculously harsh tbh, crazy bastards. Ice Hockey teams have a player whose job it is to intimidate the other team and get revenge for bad tackles or something isn't there? Mental

That's north american sports really.

in baseball if you hit a batter or show them up you're gonna get hit with a 100mph fastball to the chest.

in football if you take a cheap shot on the quarterback when your team is on D they're gonna cheap shot one of your people... or a crackback block

in basketball if you get a hard foul they'll put in another player off the bench to flagrantly foul them...

and yeah in hockey there's usually one 'enforcer' who if they feel their goalie is being fucked with or if there was a bad penalty they'll come in and level them or straight up start a fight.

i went to college my freshman year with a guy named mike commodore at the university of north dakota.... he was their enforcer. One game a dude from minnesota tripped our goalie and then speared him with the end of his stick. So the coach put mike commodore in and he went over there and literally punched the kid in the back of the head and knocked him out cold, picked up his stick, and handed it to a kid in the stands lol

[Sexual_Chocolate]

So the coach put mike commodore in and he went over there and literally punched the kid in the back of the head and knocked him out cold, picked up his stick, and handed it to a kid in the stands lol

you call that sport?

[therapist]

Punched him in the back of the head? And that's being a hard man?

[pkay]

So the coach put mike commodore in and he went over there and literally punched the kid in the back of the head and knocked him out cold, picked up his stick, and handed it to a kid in the stands lol

you call that sport?

Capo was speaking about the 'enforcer' role on a hockey team. I confirmed that role does in fact exist and gave a story as an example.

I honestly do not care about hockey so if you want to call it a shitty sport I'll go ahead and agree with you

[pkay]

Punched him in the back of the head? And that's being a hard man?

It's being an enforcer. You don't fuck with the goalie. Unspoken rule in hockey.

As I told dude above you was confirming what Capo had asked when he was questioning if there were players who existed to get revenge on other folks.

Spoke nothing about being a hard man or about how awesome the game was.

[NW_DUBAHOLIC]

I don't understand where you guys get the energy to endlessly argue about something so stupid as rugby vs. American football. It's come up so many times and Americans always say US football is tougher and people from the UK always say rugby. Personally I think that football hit was much harder than any of those rugby videos posted. I've been tackled from behind on the playground when I was a kid harder than those rugby hits.

[Shum]

Well of course your going to say it's football, being an American and following your own line of reasoning.

[Sexual_Chocolate]

So the coach put mike commodore in and he went over there and literally punched the kid in the back of the head and knocked him out cold, picked up his stick, and handed it to a kid in the stands lol

you call that sport?

Capo was speaking about the 'enforcer' role on a hockey team. I confirmed that role does in fact exist and gave a story as an example.

I honestly do not care about hockey so if you want to call it a shitty sport I'll go ahead and agree with you

i dont like watching hockey but i have respect for the skill those guys have....

and i just dont think going and blindsiding someone is the most honorable way of dealing with a nobjockey if you get me?

[Sexual_Chocolate]

I don't understand where you guys get the energy to endlessly argue about something so stupid as rugby vs. American football. It's come up so many times and Americans always say US football is tougher and people from the UK always say rugby. Personally I think that football hit was much harder than any of those rugby videos posted. I've been tackled from behind on the playground when I was a kid harder than those hits.

and yet you come and join in the arguement? lol

[NW_DUBAHOLIC]

Well of course your going to say it's football, being an American and following your own line of reasoning.

I know haha. I'm not saying i'm right or anything. I just think it's because I haven't seen much rugby and I've grown up seeing lots of really hard football hits.

and yet you come and join in the arguement? lol

I'm just saying that I think the football hit was harder than any of the rugby videos posted. Not that either one is tougher than the other.

[therapist]

I don't understand where you guys get the energy to endlessly argue about something so stupid as rugby vs. American football. It's come up so many times and Americans always say US football is tougher and people from the UK always say rugby. Personally I think that football hit was much harder than any of those rugby videos posted. I've been tackled from behind on the playground when I was a kid harder than those hits.

Is that even happening? Seems like some people just talking about sports.

I think the enforcer thing exists in all of the physical team sports. One of the things I think is great about rugby is the legal sort of revenge that you can get, a lot more pleasing than belting someone in the back of the head. And no Pkay I didn't suggest you're condoning or saying that's what an enforcer should be. That kind of shit happens in all these sports though.

[NW_DUBAHOLIC]

I don't understand where you guys get the energy to endlessly argue about something so stupid as rugby vs. American football. It's come up so many times and Americans always say US football is tougher and people from the UK always say rugby. Personally I think that football hit was much harder than any of those rugby videos posted. I've been tackled from behind on the playground when I was a kid harder than those hits.

Is that even happening?

Yes. At least thats the impression I got. Not necessarily from you though. Pkay posted a video of a football hit and somehow it turned into rugby vs. football/ Something I've seen come up alot of times on here.