Rugby fails the screen test; armour, time-outs, forward passes; Twickenham needs them all. (editorial)

The Economist (US) | January 23, 1988 | Copyright

Armour, time-outs, forward passes: Twickenham needs them all

RUGBY union and its offspring, the sport that the nonyankee world knows as American football, are both at their best thrilling, and at their worst acts of violence between brutes. Of the two, rugby is the finer game; it requires a greater range of skills and is less the prerogative of man-mountains. Playing rugby is as likely to be the passion of Fijians as of South Africans, Japanese or Romanians. A few enthusiasts in Britain apart, American football is played only by North Americans. But note who watches ...

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