"Im Irish." Entire Irish nation rolls their eyes.

"I'm Irish you know." No, you are not. You are a citizen of the U.S.A.

Rugby is continuous. It’s played for 80 minutes in 40 minute halves. Can only pass backwards to gain forward momentum. If the ball is dropped/passes forward it’s considered a “Knock on” stopping the play for a “scrum” to gain possession of the ball. If the ball goes out to “touch” in the “out of bounds” area. Possession can be won in a “line-out” where players contest for the thrown in ball, while being lifted. Players can kick the ball forwards at any point during the game to win territory. To score a “try” (like a touchdown) a player must enter the “end zone” and the ball must make downward contact with the ground. A “try” is 5 points a conversion (point after kick) is 2 points. During play, if a player is tackled, the play still remains ongoing, but players must contest for the ball on the ground in a “ruck”, players will basically fight for the ball, but as soon as the ball is passed from the “ruck” play continues. If an illegal play occurs i.e a dangerous tackle, a penalty is awarded to the team. A penalty can either be taken in the form of a scrum, 3 point kick over the posts, or kick into touch for a lineout. There are 15 players on the field 8 “forwards” (fat boys) and 7 “backs” (fast boys) Forwards: 2 props, 1 hooker, 2 locks, 2 flankers, 1 number 8. Backs: 1 Scrum half, 1 Fly half, 2 wingers, 2 Centers and 1 fullback. My head is hurting from thinking of other information, but there’s the basics😂

Typical American I'm Irish lol. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Rugby is continuous and played at high tempo and often spontaneous. it's not pre-planned, robotic and stultifyingly dull like American football!

“Im Irish” straight to the comments

The Man is Jonah Lomu. 6 foot 5, 260lb. and 100M 10.80. He was unstoppable.

*Claims to be Irish* Other guy: *asks something about Ireland* "I don't fucking know"

Rugby, the sport invented at a public (fee paying) posh school just outside the town of Rugby in the UK

Jonah Lomu, one of the best rugby players of all time!

He says he's Irish and then doesn't know if Ireland has a rugby team.... 😅

Always found it funny that in American football the ball only needs to enter the end zone to score a touchdown but in Rugby you have to touch the ground with the ball.

You should watch Jonah Lomu - Lord of the Wings. He was the GOAT (passed away). The All Blacks (New Zealand) are statistically the best team of all time. Jonah played for them.

The Six Nations starts next weekend. A rugby competition between England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, France and Italy.

When I go to Ireland, there's always an American tourist saying "I'm Irish". My family was Irish, I'm English.

Rugby 🐐 is Jonah lomu from New Zealand. There is to types of rugby, rugby union and rugby league.

6 nations starts in 7 days great way to see the best 6 in Europe go at it. They are also all in the top 10 of the world

“In football there’s a bunch of shit goin on” Eloquent.

a lot of these tackles are illegal, you have to wrap your arms around them, you can't just use your shoulder. its not about being big, if that were the case the US or the pacific island would be top of the tree, its about technique, tactics and discipline. the best teams in the world are probably ireland, france, south africa and new zealand at present, any of those teams could beat each other on their day

Ireland are the current number 2 ranked team in the world. On Saturday Ireland won the six nations (Ireland, England, Wales, Scotland, France and Italy) championship for the second year in a row.

NZ All Black Sir Wayne "Buck" Shelford will always a rugby football legend for the 1986 injury he sustained in a match against France, while still an amateur player (no sponsorship or endorsements) 20mins into the match he was involved in a very aggressive maul where he lost 4 teeth and a french players boot tore open his scrotum leaving his testicle exposed. He calmly left the field, asked the team doc to stitch him up and he went back on the field to play. Now that's hard core 🤘🤘

The thing with rugby is that, like most international sports, there are both club and international sides. The World Cup is the most prestigious, and then there are two smaller annual tournaments, the Rugby Championship in the southern hemisphere, and the Six Nations in Europe. For club rugby, I'd suggest that the best to check out are "Super Rugby" (a best-of-the-best competition for Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands) which is a league format, and the "Heineken Cup" which is basically the equivalent of the Champions' League in soccer, with the best teams from South Africa and Europe. There are other leagues that teams compete in alongside this, but if you're aiming to get into it by seeing the big names and stars, those are your best bets.

Remember your game of football has it’s origins in rugby

Cool video lads. There’s two types of rugby in the UK - Union and League. Look out for a video of a former player called Adrian Morley. Or Sam Burgess. Absolute legends!

Its more of a tournament between nations. Its called the rugby world cup and the springboks have been champions for 3 years. After they decided to be a good team again

Holy shit, no body-armour or a helmet in sight !!!🇬🇧 And bro, you're not Irish. My dad was Irish, doesn't make me Irish. You're American. If by any chance your mother or father or grandparents are Irish, you may be able to get an Irish passport. In the UK I can because of my father. In the same way my daughter can also have one, on the grounds of her grandfather. If you can, that would not only be Irish status, but freedom of travel throughout the European Union.

9:55 That's called a ruck. When a player in possession of the ball is tackled he must release the ball, that's when a ruck can be formed. It's a messy sport, but we love the ruggers in Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Can’t wait till he finds out how good the Ireland team is. 😂🔥🔥🔥💪🏾

Check out: Dirtiest - Bakkies Botha Hardest - Henry Tuillangui/Sebastian Chabel Best Kicker - Johnny Wilkinson Full back - JPR Williams Best Flyhalf (think Quarter back) - Dan Carter Steam Roller - Jonah Lomu Surprise package - Shane Williams

American football comes from Rugby.

Ireland has one of the four monster teams in the top all rankings, with France, South Africa and New Zeland. The top 4 of Tier 1.then, England, Scothland, Argentina, Wales, Fiji and Japan...in a second step. Back on Ireland, we have a wonderfull rivality, (Argentina vs Ireland) Incredible 4°finals played many times 4 bouth teams, most oh them with tied up finals. If you're Irish.... Yoi should know it".... Your National Team is AWESOME!!!!!

American football is classical music. Highly structured, everything in its place. A place for everything. Rugby is freeform jazz. Highly improvised and seemingly chaotic at all times. Can you only pass the ball backwards? Yes. As a P.S.: there's a video called Rugby explained for Americans (by an American) that - even with minor mistakes/interpretations - is a pretty damned good one to watch. Goat? Depends who you ask. But for us Kiwi's, it's Jonah Lomu (now deceased - age 40 - thanks to playing his entire career with kidney disease). Each rugby playing nation has their own competition. We start at ages 5/6. Play for our local club. Then college (high school) if good enough. Then a club if we wish to continue playing with the local club. Then if good enough, can progress to your national provincial league, then in NZ's case to professional rugby (Super 12 - the best teams from NZ, Australia, and South Africa). From there, to your national team.

South Africa won the World Cup last year making them the only country to have won the cup 4 times. The Championship takes place every 4 years and SA took it in '94, '07, '19 and 2023. Check out the Springboks Most feared team in the world

Hi Guys - I am pleased that you decided to react to a rugby compilation but I know that you know that this cherry-picked to shock and awe the novice. That being said, it is the greatest sport in the world and was the fore-runner of American Football. In rugby you actually have to touch the ball down in the in-zone...not the airy-fairy waving the ball 'over the plane'.

The ball is always live whilst in the field of play. No forward passes but kicks go forward. Play stops when there is a penalty or ball leaves field of play or a score.

You can’t tackle a player not in possession of the ball so there's no intentional blocking like in the NFL and the tackle must be shoulder-height or lower with an attempt to wrap your arms. There are no downs like in the NFL where play is stopped and restarted with a scrimmage, but rather a ruck that's kind of like a mini-scrimmage when a player is tackled (who has to release the ball) and players attempt to push each other over the ball to gain or secure possession. Play is not stopped unless an infringement occurs and the ref blows their whistle to award a penalty, free kick or a scrum. The ref has the discretion to keep play going after an infringement if the team who didn't commit it has possession and benefits from play carrying on. This is called advantage and play can be stopped and restarted by the ref for the initial infringement if no advantage was gained.

Ireland has a very good team

Yeah rugby doesn't stop at the tackle. At most its a pause. You have to hold the guy down otherwise he will just get up and carry on. Once he is on the floor, he has to release the ball within a couple of seconds. If he has no backup, that will just mean losing it to the opposition (a turnover). His backup normally arrives instantly and a thing called the rook takes place. His guys will kind of pile over him and form an "offside line". The opposition cant walk around this line, if they want the ball they have to push them back over the top of it. (again a turnover). Often this is as much of a pause as you get in the tackle because his guys normally make the offside line and the ball is on the ground behind it, and the opposition often don't contest it in a big way, they will tend to be concentrating on positioning and tactics ensuring their line is good defensively. A lot of stuff around it is very controversial as it relies on the referees interpretation and point of view so much.

Faff De Klek. South Africa. Small guy, massive hitter and very speedy.

The guy who picks the guy up in blue and carries him over the sideline. That's Rugby League and that was state of origin you were watching. Queensland vs New South Wales.

As a South African and a supporter of rugby. You should watch the springboks, 4 time world champ's videos. We are the best... cheer tjom

Haha great reactions from both 😅 Puts all the NFL tackles into some serious context doesn't it.

All blacks (New Zealand) and The Springboks ( South Africa) are considered the two best teams of all time and Jonah Lomu is the GOAT

The Springboks, the South African national team is the current world champions, having won their second consecutive World Cup last year in France, making it their 3 World Cup title since the SA was allowed back in 1995 (which they won)

As the Top Gear representer Jeremy Clarkson said "Rugby is like NFL but played by real men. No pads

"You could really hurt one of your boys if you wanted to" Called a 'hospital pass'.

It's what u can't see under the scrum where the pain is, punches are thrown, a man's balls are squashed 😂😂

Guys look up Jonah Lomu highlights thats the goat

South African Springboks. Cheslin Kolbe is my favorite player, but the Springboks have a lot of brilliant players. We just won the world cup for the 4th time.

"make contact to the ground at the end zone". Yes, it's a touchdown, you don't make that in American football.

The six nations tournament is about to start in feb. England, Scotland, France,Ireland, Italy and wales. Check it out!

Ninh explains the Rules of Rugby Union Worth watching. Cheers.

South African Springsboks are currently the world champions and only team to win it 4 times. Zealand has won it 3 times. The 2 most successful teams in the world

Rugby Union tries to keep the ball alive for a full 80 minutes, and that's how long they can stay on the field.

Just to confuse you even more, you should check out the Rugby Sevens tournaments. Currently underway in Perth before moving on to Vancouver, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, Singapore and Madrid. South Africa and Argentina are on top in the Mens' division at the moment while Australia holds top spot for the Womens' position.

Ireland are one of the top sides at the moment

You should react to the springboks. They're the best rugby team at the moment and recently won the world cup. React to why everyone fears the springboks

What makes rugby stop? The occasional foul :D

Check out the rules of Rugby guys. It will add so much to what you're seeing & give you an idea of some of the BAD hits you are seeing

The play ends when the tackler strips the ball from you or by foul(knockon/fumble). In rugby you can go up to 20 phases(20 downs) to get to the try line (end zone)

The last play was a good way of putting it.

Tree trunk legs.. thats where the energy to dash and lift push all comes from

You need to know Americans co-opted the word "football" and attached it to your version of Rugby. Then, these guys crash into each other with minimal protection (teeth and jewels).

I'd describe rugby as being a bit like if you took American Football, where each player has a build and skillset for specialised positions, only players play on both offense and defense, and when the tackle is made, there is IMMEDIATELY another snap so players have got to just fulfil the role of wherever they were at that point in time, and there's an infinite number of downs. A large part of tactics in rugby is trying to engineer mismatches so you've got more space, or the other team have the equivalent of a lineman covering out wide, or you have a defensive end running with the ball and the other team's quarterback trying to tackle him. That's also why you see a lot of kicking, because if a team doesn't like the defensive look it sees, they'll just kick and reset, because you can compete in the air for the ball, punting isn't giving up possession like it is in Americcan football.

You'll find that the good ball carriers initiate the contact. To counter them you stand up and make him run high which makes him a bigger target. You're only interested in his diaphragm up.

Rugby is a proper sport which doesn't stop every 2 minutes.

That last play stuff is the last vestige of rugby left in american football .

You guys should really check out the Springboks

that guy your mention from the new england freejacks rugby team is a part of the professinal rugby set up in the states called MAJOR LEAGUE RUGBY one of the best leagues out the international rugby nations are keeping a keen eye on that league eyery major rugby nations are talking about it be proud of what you guys have got

South Africa are current World Champions, New Zealand, Ireland and France are the best of the rest in the 15 man Union game. The best leagues are Six Nations, Super Rugby and the United Rugby Championship.

You should check out USA vs All Blacks (New Zealand) 2021 Rugby highlights

You wanted to know what happens when they are tackled. That is when the fight for the ball (the ruck, google it) starts. Whoever can win it has the ball. Re legs, get strong. Squats, deadlifts, heavy or don't bother. Smash any opposition players off the position. Have a hard skull. Be able to sprint for 2 lots of 40 minutes. Or, stick with american football where you get breaks and have helmets and armour.

4 times world champions and also current world champions the toughest team to play. Known as the hardest team on earth. SPRINGBOKS. SOUTH AFRICA

Ireland ranked No. 2 in the world behind the Bocs and ahead of New Zealand the all blacks sent us home from the world cup after we beat south africa in the group stage

You should react to womens rugby, they can be just as brutal

There also regionals where there are different teams within a specific country

The GOATS at the moment are ths Springboks world champions

The All Blacks are a good team to check out and, from back in the day, their player Jonah Lomu!! And some of the players have a tape style band wrapped around their heads and this is because when in the scrum other players would grab them by the ears and, have on some occasions, ripped off chunks of ear!

Would love to see you 1v1 devour. I know yous are bros and you both are my 2 favourite s&d players to watch. That would be good content

Rugby Union is THE ultimate spectator sport.

When tackled in open play the tackled player keeps the ball if he hasn’t fumbled it. He must try to release the ball rearward. He could be prevented from releasing (jackling) and lose possession risking a penalty for not releasing. But to establish quick multiphase play the tackled player releases, his team mate redistributes the ball and so on. Each successive execution is called a phase. Fast flowing rugby with speed and handskills is a function of dominant possession through phases. Unfortunately too many outsiders coming to rugby get turned on by the big hits. Open phase play really showcases the best of rugby. As for physique, you mentioned tree trunks legs, physique is slowly morphing into something like uniformity pretty much wherever you play. Thought considerable height is needed for some forwards (Locks). A modern No.8 (a forward) like Ben Earl could play as back. Candidate for best ever: Jonah Lomu. Despite his colossal size he was a winger (No.11 I think). Fast. Unstoppable.

Just wait till they see the Springboks a.k.a the GOAT'S

Top leagues are all over the world, American football is played mainly in one country

Probably best team is New Zealand and best player Jonah Lomu.

Many arguments over the GOAT depending where you're from. Jonah Lomu stands out. There are several major leagues across the globe. Standouts are the Super Rugby across Australia, new Zealand, South africa, Pacific islands and even argentina. The Top 14 in france is huge with lots of money backing it. Finally the premiership rugby in england. Saying this, there are many smaller leagues.

O and you should also react to Quaid Cooper

Boys react to the most feared rugby team in the world

8:56 Yup, there's an actual term for that. It's called a Hospital pass. True story 😳

A player when tackled has to release the ball, the tackler has to release the player, then other players have to come in to secure the ball before the tackler and other players who are on their feet can reach for the ball and turn it over. This is why players on the team with possession come in to clear out players competing for the ball, if they bring them off their feet they are no longer allowed to compete for the ball.

You want to watch a full game of rugby union and rugby league these 2 are a real man's game

I'm Irish your American cos if you where Irish you wold know Ireland has one of the best teams I'm not just saying that they have the trophies. Guys I know Americans are not worldwide cultured but all the the sports USA play are taken mostly from European sports and overtime became what they are now. I hope you get to watch more sports so enjoy the history ❤ sports

south africa 4 time world champs...most ever

The New England Free Jacks are currently the Major League Rugby champions in the USA.

I played in the scrum (positions 1-8) from age 11 to age 45 in Bath UK in school or lower regional leagues not the premiership so not to be confused with Gareth Dawe a Bath RFC vteran.

in rugby, the ball can only be passed foward with the feet... the pass with hands can only be made backward

"I'm Irish" is right up there with "world champs" national sport. I still love you guys though.

You want to watch a video on Ruby’s hardest tackles.

Top 14 is the best league for sure ! 🇫🇷

You guys need to watch the 6 nations. It just started today

Check Rugby League also, a different set of rules, closer to American Football. 6 tackles then turnover, but no stopping. Get hard hits too.