which sport is rougher american football or rugby?

Question

which players are tougher

Answer 1

rugby

Answer 2

I have a friend that plays rugby. I don't really like watching, but wow. The first guy I met on his team was a guy they called Boo. I asked why? He smiled! He was about 47 and had 1 tooth. Nice guy though.

Rugby players tape their ears so they don't get ripped off. I've seen guys get completely knocked out, break bones (and keep playing), have lacerations, etc.

Rugby is crazy. Football is the best sport to watch or play, but Rugby is rougher only because the players don't wear pads. Football was forced to because people used to die from playing.


Soooo....football in general is technically more rougher since people used to die and people were forced to wear pads

but

Rugby w/o pads is rougher than football with pads.

So rugby is rougher but only because of the rules.

I would say however, that football and rugby players are both very tough people. Rugby players are just crazier

Answer 3

I only played rugby as a little kid at summer camp, but played football in HS, so for me personally it would definitely be football.

Some of the poundings that quarterbacks and wide receivers take - like taking a blindside sack or getting killed by a safety while leaping for a high bullet over the middle - I dont think there is anything in rugby that compares to that - but I confess I don't know a whole lot about the game.

And the guys that play in the NFL are roided up physical specimens and if you set them loose on a rugby field you might want to set up a triage on the sidleine. Imagine Ray Lewis and Brian Urlacher being able to hit guys without pads. Yikes.

Answer 4

Rugby players are definitely tougher. Although the collisions aren't always as "explosive" as in football, rugby players are generally all pretty big guys with decent speed. I'd much rather get hit by a football player in the secondary at full speed than a man twice that size going at his maximum speed in rugby.

Answer 5

American football is rougher as a sport. But players must be very tough. I have no idea who is tougher.

I'll confess that I don't watch much rugby, and I know they don't wear much padding. But the collisions in football look so much worse than in rugby. In football, a lot of times, a linebacker gets a full running start before he plows head-on into the running back. Those brutal collisions in rugby don't seem to happen as often.

Answer 6

football is tougher than rugby but rugby has less pads. The answer is football is tougher and Rugby players are just dumbasses that don't wear pads.

Answer 7

You've actually asked two questions here so I'll answer each one.

American football is rougher which is why they need crash helmets - after all they litterally run into each other head first.

Rugby players are tougher though as they still play a very rough game but wear much less protection.

Answer 8

Rugby players are far tougher and use less protective equipment when playing.

Answer 9

the question was toughest - not most stupid - gotta be stupid to try to ride a bull.

no helmet, no pads makes rugby much tougher imo. And the stories I heard from friends that played rugby in college - yikes. I don't want to be in some of those scrums!

Answer 10

American Football as far as total impact, Rugby by DIRECT impact. Rugby is like being hit by a sledge hammer, but American Football is like being in a car crash. At least that is what I learned from Sports Science on FSN.

Answer 11

Football