Aussies/NFL

I was gonna post about this the other day and got sidetracked, saw it on SportsCenter, kinda cool.


btw: the highlights they showed, dude can run like Gump!

he looks like an absolute beast. I didn't post it either because I remember how ugly the nfl/rugby thread went a while back, haha

San Diego had a punter back in the '90s named Darren Bennett, who started as an Aussie Rules player. The guy used to lay people out when they'd make it passed the Chargers' line.

he was a very good rugby league player, one of the very best, it was huge news here and australia when he left to go chase his dream in the NFL, (NZ have a team in the Australian competition, same as with Soccer and basketball as well)

really it will be interesting to see how he goes, there has been rumours of top rugby union and rugby league players being approached by NFL teams in teh past, but this is the first time one of the stars has gone, (there was a Counties Rugby player of afircan origin that was in the Colts training squad a few years ago, but he never played as far as i know, and it was not big news here as he was not an interenational player)

its a massivly different game, and i think its the same as the MXers trying to go to nascar, its very hard to try an compete with people who have played the sport for thier whole lives

I have a buddy here that played for a pro rugby team in aussie land a while back, that came to the US, enrolled in the local college (that went on to win the D2 national title last season) and came to learn to play football. He had some issues getting the NCAA to clear him though because he was a former pro athlete. He is still trying to get to the pro football ranks.