Why don't you play rugby in States?

Question

@my dear Stéphane. The rugby rules are difficult, it's sure, but those of football are mysterious.

Answer 1

We do play it in the States just not at the highest level.  Where I live here in New York state in the rural Adirondacks they have one of the largest club competitions every year.

Answer 2

maybe it's to difficult

Answer 3

Too busy playing with hand guns and building bombs to think about organised sport.

Oh . . .  and drinking a vast array of liquid sugar drinks and shovelling double grease burgers into their obese frames.

Who needs to play rugby against other countries when you can bomb and destroy em instead, and watch it all on tv while stuffing yourself full of sugar and fat.

USA urrrrrrgh  repulsive country. . . thank the lord they don't play rugby.

Edit: ooh I got a bite, sure I'll jump back under that rock, but please don't bomb me or tempt me with junk food.

Edit: Thanks for the advice "why?" - quick tip for you my functionally illiterate  friend - the possessive YOUR is not a verb. You are looking for the contracted verb to be -YOU'RE when you finish your post with describing me as a ******* ***.

If you went to a good rugby school you would have of course been aware of this simple grammar point. Mmm . . .guess not.

Answer 4

Cos rugby union is strictly for the BIG boys!

Answer 5

i don't like rugball but i'm friends with some hookers too, like the guy above me  :)

Answer 6

There are numerous reason's that America hasn't decided to join the glorious sporting community of rugby.  Firstly, Americans focus on baseball and football primarily.  That means that all of our athletes and money to support them at all levels is channeled to those sports and not rugby.  In addition, Americans view rugby as a sport for elites and drunks.  The best example of this would be Ralph Lauren launching a line of clothes modeled  on traditional rugby attire.  While this has done much for Ralph Lauren and his coffers it has done little to help rugby shed it's image of elite prep school-ism, something it carried over from england.  In addition, Rugby gets very very little airtime on the TV in the US.  Watching CNN I managed to here rugby mentioned twice, once when Bryan Habana raced a cheetah and another time on a segment about collegic sport injuries.

Finally, the last problem is that Americans love winners and sadly the Eagles are not currently winning any real competitions.

Answer 7

Je me suis toujours posé la question. Pourtant c'était bien parti puisque les Etats-Unis ont été champion olympique de rugby la première (et la dernière) fois où le rugby a fait une apparition au J.O.

Ils ont tout: les joueurs et même les structures.

J'imagine les packs conquérants avec leurs défenseurs de football et les lignes de trois quarts avec leurs "receveurs", "quater-back" et autres "running back".

Mais je crois comme beaucoup d'intervenants que cela remue même si le football et le basket (ainsi que le hockey) s'accrochent comme des morpions à leurs fonds de commerce.

Answer 8

They don't play rugby, they just wear the kit and drink the beer. Rugby isn't an opportunity to earns billions of dollars for doing nothing like baseball and football is the main reason, the secondary reasons being, you can't wear pads, and you get slaughtered if you don't play as a team... Watching USA rugby makes me asshamed to hold dual citizenship in the USA

Answer 9

It is growing.  It will never enjoy the commercial success of Gridiron.  It seems to be big around the University level.

They do make the world cup, so there is room for growth.

They got caned, but they tried.

Answer 10

Damian why don't you shut the **** up and go kill you self you worthless piece of **** your a ******* *** hole

Answer 11

As a proud Brit living in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA; I can tell you for a fact, we do play Rugby over here.

I currently play for the Championship team in my league (Indiana State Under 19s League, Noblesville RFC)

Depending on where you are, there are different levels of Rugby, however, in the United States "Semi-pro" and College level rugby are considered the top level over here.

As you are obviously disillusioned, you might not have noticed the United States consistently sends a team to the Rugby World Cup (Albeit a rubbish team).

However, they do play Rugby over here, and some of our players are extremely good. The best of our boys go over to Europe to play in Rugby Union and Rugby League.

Rugby is rapidly gaining in popularity over here, especially at the high school (Under-19s) level.

However, I doubt it will ever have the popularity of Basketball or Football. Baseball, perhaps because it is a dying game, but for its physicality, the Americans love Rugby.

Dan Preston

#4

Noblesville Rugby Football Club

Answer 12

Rugby is played mainly on the west coast.    I went to see the U.S. Eagles play the New Zealand All Blacks September 1980 at the San Diego Stadium and there were tail gate parties and all the trappings before the game.    There were only a few hundred of us there was it was a great event.

Answer 13

i think it's actually becoming more popular in the states...

theres many club sports across the states....and in Wisconsin theres even a high school level where theres around 40 teams...

I personally play both football (american) and rugby...

I find that I enjoy playing rugby a lot more...and it seems that everyone who plays rugby at my level feels the same

but high school football coaches dont want there best athletes playing rugby b/c of the injury risks (which is bs)

Answer 14

We do play in the states unfortunately it is not too popular but, those of us who play like it that way..we are sort of a novelty.

Answer 15

It really just depends where in the united states you are and who you know because I live in houston, texas and go to a high school that offers male and female rugby as a sport, and im  friends with the best hooker in Texas.

Also I don't think it could ever be able to contend with the sports that dominate the U.S such as American Football, Baseball, or Basketball