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Australian Rules Rugby more closely approximates the type of "Rugger" I played during high school and later the Navy in Canada. Significant blood loss and subsequent scarring aside, it remains my favourite while I also enjoy watching a sport with forward passes causing one to hold their breath.
All sports bring something to the table and one not mentioned so far is Lacrosse. Boy howdy, that one gets the spectators pulses racing.
i think people enjoy what they grow up with, although I really do enjoy Basketball and Hockey while Baseball and American football do not appeal to me.
I still think Rugby is the king of sports though, but I always watched it since I was a kid and my grandpa used to play.
wasn't athletic the king of sports?
in comparison to soccer football/rugby doesn't require that quality, u gotta be just phisically robust and fast...
They (the NFL) seem hell bent on trying to get the game some popularity in the UK, I'm not sure its working quite as well as they claim it is, the thing is in the UK or France or even Italy there is rugby which (particularly in France and the UK) is a popular contact sport, surely the NFL will have a better chance of success if it try's to establish the game somewhere in Europe that doesn't have much interest in rugby football?
You are probably right. The big 3 in the UK are Football, Rugby and Cricket.
Where I now live, Denmark, the big 3 are (get this) Football, Team Handball (men and women), and Badminton. The national football team sucks, but we have some pretty good light-weight rowers and women swimmers for such a small place.
My sport is lacrosse and, as you probably know, Manchester is the UK magnet for that sport.
If there is no demand it will disappear, so no need to get your panties in a twist.
Demand might appear once something has been introduced, because people were mostly unaware of it prior. It's like the recent 'explosion' in Halloween, which although always present in the UK was never a big occasion (and still really isn't but has definitely grown in popularity in the past 5 years for whatever reason).
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