To those of you who do not know, a Rugby superstar was taken by the San Francisco 49ers as a prospect.

In no way do I want to hate, but:

He is too slow- a 4.5 40yd (I ran better than that in HS)
He catches the ball with his body, not out stretched hands.
He has a language deficit in technical Football language
and everyone in the NFL is fast- and 70% are faster than this guy!!!

Sorry RUGBY, but you're hero is about to get blown up by the NFL!

OH and he runs upright like a target!

I do need to respond you your YANK! as I find it highly offensive and is racially arrogant in that it states that all people living in North America would considered themselves American-when in deed they do not, because they are agnostic to their own nationality and sovereign governance...lol they are fools

If you think that I am a common North American then I will have to oblige.

I am a Yankee doodle dandee, My family is from New England, Boston specifically and you need to be educated.

In 1775 we were 2 inches taller and 20lbs bigger than you, you are nothing more than saxon's and associated criminals.

When Tudor took hold and the Puritans arose-then the mass migration of we Normans took place-We are Norman, Templar, Puritans: suck it!

Do you like how I can say all that? I know since your mother was a sheep and your dad was a welsh probate...lol

The guy is an Australian legend and beast. Your NFL players wear padding because otherwise they will get "hurt" where as our rugby players do not.

He is used to taking heavy knocks and shrugging them off. Just wait and see.... Just wait and see

The padding leads to more violent collisions.

The NFL benefits from a few hundred years of terrible American history where a byproduct was genetic breeding. It's not even close. You could give a rugby coach 2 weeks with his choice of NFL players and they'd make the best rugby team in the world look stupid.

Jarryd Hayne's 40 yard time was faster than most of the Running Backs at the recent combine:

http://www.nfl.com/combine/tracker#day=saturday


Your alleged '40 yard time' was hand-timed BS. Just like all the other highschool '40 yard times';

This is just embarrassing.

Emmitt Smith probably ran a 4.6 - 4.7 if you'd made him run on a Sunday morning before a game and he's the all time leading rusher.

Even with six months of training, your mythical superstar team would fall to pieces after the first 20 minutes,

American Football players simply aren't exceptional compared to elite athletes from other sports. At least not to the point where they possess some kind of innate advantage.

They'd break the scoreboard in 20 minutes.

Emmit Smith was a 5'8, 190lb midget but possessed the ability, vision and intangible qualities that made him superior to NFL players much bigger and faster than him.

216, but he had one of the greatest lines in NFL history, a HOF QB, one of the best FBs ever, and a HOF WR on the edge to keep people honest.

This is why I think he is over rated.

Emmit Smith doesn't have anything on Barry Sanders (or Walter Payton and Jim Brown for that matter).

I just watched the dude's highlight reel. He's a baller for sure. But I'm sorry to break it to you, those dudes he is playing against are scrubs to the tenth power in comparison to what he's about to be facing.

I'll actually be rooting for him because it's a cool story.

There are high schools in Texas that would be harder for him to run through than that crap. Is that a real professional league that people pay to go watch? Can you guys get NFL Sunday Ticket in Australia? If so, you should get it. There are much fewer lumbering, slow white dudes with try hard looks on their faces.

Your crazy if you think NFL players aren't some of the biggest, strongest, fastest athletes in the world. They may not have the endurance of other sports such as soccer or rugby, but watch a defense get pounded for 4 quarters straight and tell me they dont have heart. I'll call you a liar, because I've done it.

Statistically speaking, you have a snowballs chance in H311 of making it to the NFL. These guys are literally the top 1% of athletes in the world.

Edit: also iirc football has the youngest average death age of any sport but boxing/mma. So I wouldn't call the pads "pussified."

LOL...American Football struggles to even exist as a sport outside North America.

It's the top 1% of 5% of the world's population.

Yet there is nfl world league to recruit from outside of america, and also apparently rugby. Does it make you upset that the nfl uses your favorite sport the same way they use their B-league?

Also, in terms of population, only two countries beat out the states; China and India. We probably have states with higher population than whatever island country you hail from.

Let's get back to Rugby

The guy is an Australian legend and beast. Your NFL players wear padding because otherwise they will get "hurt" where as our rugby players do not.

He is used to taking heavy knocks and shrugging them off. Just wait and see.... Just wait and see

I personally train Legs with a retired 27 year old CFL player. The man is 6'7 and 270lbs and easily under 10 percent body fat. I cannot imagine a CFL player in their trainning prime, let alone a NFL player!!!

Your Rugby boy hero is going to get ****** up

Why yes, just look at the weak, soft tackling in the NRL:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rq2Xb3BQZyY



Also, the champion Seahawks team copied Rugby tackling to create literally the most dominant defence in the history of the NFL.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HihjPApzCg&list=LLJdeefD4edpCrAx1MT3KzNA&index=77

Maybe you should contact Pete Carroll and tell him that he's wrong and that you know better?

The NFL has better athletes all around due to its aggressive nature of always having to be the best... It will always have the strongest,fastest, and biggest players out there buuut its boring as hell to watch and that's why rugby is cooler.

Yeah, the flow of NFL games are completely ******. Rugby is just a better sport to watch, a Rugby team of NFL players would give any other team a good match, but they'd probably still lose to experience.