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Boiling your question down to toughness, let me ask you this, how many racing riders actually ride on the public highway, complete with potholes, oncoming traffic, roadside furniture, no safety car etc?



Now Bryn, do you HONESTLY think that the top riders in the worlds such as the aforementioned Casey Stoner DON'T ride on the STREET??? And that those fellas couldn't out-ride ANYBODY, ANYWHERE???

And so, sorry, but YOUR analogy in reply to MY analogy is totally off-base, my friend.

BUT, gettin' off the whole "Motorcycle Analogy" thing here, and while admitedly I probably know as much about Rugby as you know about American Football, during the few games of rugby I've ever watched, from what I could tell, and while once again admitted there does seem to be more "constant action" going on in Rugby..well...from what I could tell in Rugby it's pretty much kick the ball back to the runner, he gets tackled or laterals it to somebody else on his team and then HE gets tackled, and so on, and so on, and so on!

BUT, whereas in AMERICAN Football there are a NUMBER of different plays that can be called upon to advance the football into the defense's territory, such as the aerial attack(known as the forward pass), and/or many many MANY different types of running plays in the Ground Attack. And thus making AMERICAN football not ONLY a game of hard hits and tackles but ALSO a THINKING MAN'S game TOO!!!

(...and now I rest MY case, you darn Limey!!!)


Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)