>>>>Truly the toughest, hardest men in sport are world class rugby players. No other sport even comes close <gr&d> ...
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>>>>GO BOKKE!
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>>>I've gotta say you're right. In college we thought lacrosse was tougher than football ( mainly because there was much less protection and you had a weapon in your hands to hit people with - oh, and because as a very preppy private school we could beat Ohio State <g> ) And then my senior year they introduced rugby and we decided that was the sport for guys who were just too mean or too drunk <s> to play either football or lacrosse.
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>>>I troll the sports channels looking for big league rugby. I have Argentian/Scotland and England/France on TIVO now and plan to watch tonight( DON'T tell me who won - you can actually read the sports page here without finding out <s> )
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>>Are rugby players really mean. There is a saying in England that soccer is a gentleman's game played by hooligans and rugby is a hooligan's game played by gentlemen. Tough, yes.
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>No, just meant that was what it took to play the game ( the drunk part seemed to help too ) Of course my limited experience of the game involved players who were bringing absolutely no skill to game so we had to compensate with testosterone, ignorance of the rules and consumption of alcohol. ( In these three things we were world-class <g> )


I knew some rugby players in college and they were about the same. They would play hard, then drink hard.