Football Vs Rugby? Is It Boys Vs Men??

Good comeback, must have taken a lot of intelligence and brain power to come up with that one.

For the same reason you watch films like Troy, Rocky and Preditor as opposed to Legally Blonde or St Trinians. Or why you watch rugby and boxing as opposed to netball or bowls. It's a bit like the modern day gladiators, only without the killing.

Don't get me wrong, I like to watch a good football game, but it is ruined completely by diving. I watched a few games from the Africa Cup Of Nations and the diving culture didn't seem to exist at all (in the games I saw) and it made the whole thing seem so much more real!

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legendary lol and true

Yes, it is boys v men. I hate the fact that the football boys can kick a football round, fake injury, cry and get away with being thick as sh*t just because they're a footballer.

So, how do you account for player brutality in rugby like eye gouging and spear tackles? The sort of men who probably beat the crap out of their wives and girlfriends by the sounds of it. Rather amusing that women are attracted to such displays of gender performance.

As for you analogy with films, people watch different films for different reasons. Some guys are able to appreciate films other than overly masculine, homoerotic films like 300. Try watching A Beautiful Mind, Lord of the Rings, The Green Mile and Shawshank Redemption. If I wanted to watch hours and hours of overly masculine entertainment, I'd watch repeats of The Shield.

All good films, but if you fancy watching something more masculine then you watch something like that, or rugby. What's so hard to comprehend about that?

Brutality does not make a film good. Talent does.

Of course But I didn't say it did. I said the films listed by NDGAARONDI were good films.

Do you disagree that there are more violent rugby players than footballers? If you do, it's kind of at odds with the "they are well hard, compared to pansy footballers that cry lol" mentality that a lot of posters seem to have.

As for the whole chav aspect of your post, you don't seem capable of understanding the sentence "I think more chavs should take it up". He never suggested that chavs generally play rugby. So really it's your competence that should be called into question based on your incomprehension of his post.

No, but you said originally that it was the same reason you'd watch Gladiator as opposed to Legally Blonde.

It's very easy to make comparisons between two genres when the major determinant is the quality of the film. For instance, I would rather watch Citizen Kane than Die Hard 3 - doesn't make me a pansy.

I said that when you think of a chav, you associate them with football. I.e. most football hooligans are chavs.

All hooligans are chavs by their very nature. It is true that football still has problems with thuggery with fans, but rugby has more problems with it on the pitch. But, given that the average attendance of football matches a year outweigh rugby by about 15 times, comparisons can be difficult.

I've never seen or heard of rugby fans rioting in the streets

Ok, so you have confirmed here that you like to watch rugby because of it's manliness and brutality. That is quite frankly laughable.
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Well done Sherlock! How much analysing did it take to come to that unexpected conclusion?

Sounds to me like you should step down from that high horse. People like things for different reasons. I like the masculinity of rugby, I like the elelment of competition, camaraderie and sportsmanship. I like the us V's them aspect. Why is that so laughable?

Do you also love the nakedness, towel whipping and various homoerotic activies than comes with rugby team "camaraderie "?

Don't take this too seriously but I'm just curious as to that question. I like football an I love rugby. I think I'd enjoy watching football more if they didn't fall over so much. I find it embarrassing. If my Dad had ever caught a glimpse of me falling over because someone tapped my foot he'd forever take the piss, so would my girlfriend.

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