American Reacts to Rugby Lies!

We've been lied to. Rugby might not be rugby. Or at least it might be named after the wrong people.
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[@oufc90]

Disagree with your thoughts that because a game is low scoring that it must be boring. Football is a low scoring sport, but that just means that each goal has much more importance and games are usually closer. For example usually a game finishing say 2-1 is more entertaining than a game finishing 5-1. A sport which is famously high scoring such as basketball, the value of each point scoring event is so low it’s almost not worth celebrating

[@Rachel_M_]

The view that low Scoring games are boring is a general view amongst Americans. JJ isn't alone in that. Edit: but on that logic Americans should love cricket scores, even though it is a slow game.

[@Darrenski]

It's definitely a case of 'less is more'. When I've watched basketball, for example they score so often it's more of a shock when they don't score. I could never get as excited about a 3 point basket as I could about 1 single goal, if it's nil-nil in a must-win game. I don't think Americans will ever fully grasp what a rush it is to score ONE goal in a big game. Imagine celebrating every basketball score like we do a goal! They'd need to start substituting fans as well. The bottom line is, if a game that can finish 134-126 was as exciting and entertaining as one that can end 2-1 then surely the rest of the world would also have noticed. But the odd thing is, they haven't. Less is more is a phrase that is used far too much, more or less. But in this case, it couldn't be more true.

[@DouglasLyons-yg3lv]

I have tried to watch soccer many times and I just don’t get it. There are vast periods of time when little of interest happens. I think the appeal has something more to do with tribalism than the game itself, which is often quite boring.

[@benjames9158]

low scoring game doesn't equate to boring? if anything its a display of skill from both sides

[@legend9335]

Don`t forget ho is an American.

[@benjames9158]

@@legend9335 I don't get the correlation

[@zaphodbeeblebrox6627]

The word 'clergy' is phonetically pronounced ClerJie

[@wessexdruid7598]

Grates, doesn't it. It is however correctly pronounced at 6:40, for JJ's information.

[@XENONEOMORPH1979]

yes it is like the fire at whitehouse in the states as the story teller to the visitors explained a different story as to why it was on fire by the brit army . The real reason was that the American army invaded Canada as it was a colony of the brits at the time and they killed villagers and cattle . So the british army went over to the states and burn the whitehouse as a warning invade again the next time it will be gutted .

[@enemde3025]

Rugby WORLD cup . Where teams from around the WORLD compete. Unlike the WORLD SERIES where only teams from America/Canada compete ! CLERGY is pronounced CLERJEE. PYTHON is pronounced PYTHUN.

[@photoisca7386]

I hate to do this but - I think you will find that the World Series was named after a newspaper which sponsored the tornament. I used to think that it was typical American hubris. They do refer to themselves as "The World".

[@jimstewart8122]

I've never heard anyone pronounce Python as pythun. 😏

[@thurmanmerman2720]

@@photoisca7386 I hate to do this but you are incorrect.The myth is that the New York World newspaper sponsored the series in its early days, but there is zero evidence for this. Instead, as you had the winners of the American League playing the winners of the National League, they couldn't call it the American Series or the National Series. So they went for World Series. So you were actually correct in that it was early 20th century American hubris. The thing is though that MLB has players from all over the world, and it is by far the highest level of the sport. So the World Series champions are the de facto world champions.

[@dexstewart2450]

There was a variation of football played here long before the English invaded here. Rugby School gave the game rules. Generally, the English created rules for games that already existed and claimed the invention

[@davidjohns4745]

An easily obtained goal is no great goal at all.

[@brucewilliams4152]

You need to look up atherstone(Warwickshire). Ball game. Still played every spring in the sttreets

[@alexmctear5420]

Kirkcudbright: the correct pronunciation is ker-koo-bree. (has something to do with Gaelic)

[@brucewilliams4152]

I have played rugby, at rugby, in the Warwickshire town of rugby.

[@stuartcollins82]

Same, kinda, I used to do some work for Rugby School. They knew I was a proud welshman, and asked me if I wanted to throw a rugby ball on the field, and damn right I did.

[@monkee1969]

You didn't consider if this version is in fact the lie?

[@elemar5]

Hahah. He said clurgyman.

[@wessexdruid7598]

Maybe he has a lurgy.

[@jenniebeann]

Rugby, it's like America Football but more savage with less protection

[@wessexdruid7598]

Other way round. Gridiron is a simplification of Rugby, with more protection added. Invented in Canada.

[@malcmac2980]

Loving how you pronounce Kirkcudbrightshire (It's more like Cur - coo - brish - ur and the town is pronounced Cur Coo Brie)

[@dVb9]

His pronunciation of 'clergyman' is quite something, too.

[@malcmac2980]

@@dVb9 I was less sure if maybe that was an American thing, so didn't want to risk that, but I've been to Kirkcudbright a few times, so know how that's pronounced)

[@dVb9]

​@@malcmac2980No, I think it's just him, although I did wonder if he was doing it deliberately for kicks and giggles.

[@thabudmaster]

i think you said that you were in Walking Dead a few times? I'm pretty sure I remember seeing you, there was a zombie in the first , or maybe 2nd series, who i used to see all the time & im pretty sure it was you!!!! I always wondered why they kept using the same actor, he was so recognisable!

[@jamiesimms7084]

Rugby and Football all originated from thing. There was many rules and ways of playing

[@richardcook9794]

Er we go internet “truths” it was a cave man I tell yer ,so you must believe me now it was Ugg smith from the big cave

[@nautilus4599]

Great stuff- love a bit of Joe Divine on TIFO

[@ivylasangrienta6093]

lol at the way you pronounced "clergyman".

[@legend9335]

If you tell a story long enough it becomes the truth like Robin Hood or King Arthur or Dick Turpin. That is how legends begin.

[@marcuswardle3180]

This origin story is replicated in many sports in England. I work for a sports museum and even today there are a couple of clubs that claim to be the oldest, and therefore the originator, of the sport. A lot of the modern sports have antecedents in many different countries. The reason many modern sports come from the U.K. is the Industrial Revolution. Basically you had the rise of the Middle Class who became educated at private schools and learnt these sport. Though they were the type played at that school! Later they wanted to carry on playing and would form clubs. When playing away they played that clubs rules and when that club came and played them at home they played by their rules. Thus Associations were formed and rules standardised. Later the sport was taken abroad either through British Forces or civil servants going to administer the colonies!

[@ReaperZa23]

Watch the 2023 World Cup final and then say the 1 point difference made the game boring!!

[@TomSmith-jp1es]

Tifo is a great channel, would love to see you react to more from them (if anything is of interst of course!)

[@edijsmazulis497]

dude am I tripping or did you play a doctor in better call saul in one scene? :D

[@ianwalker5842]

Correct.

[@gwaptiva]

Next up: debunking the myth that baseball was invented by some ex-civil war general. Oh, and now go off and learn how to pronounce kirkcudbrightshire.

[@Matty3H.I]

I wholeheartedly agree ⚽️⚽️🏒🏒

[@danthomas9334]

I live in rugby

[@williambastinado5066]

Do a video about Prince madoc, the Welsh prince who discovered America

[@sjs260563]

actually it's called hand-egg

[@stephenwhite345]

Cur-Cud-Bree- Shur!

[@jimstewart8122]

Was this written by King James? 😆😆😂😂

[@MatCaney]

Please remember ‘football’ means UK football e.g soccer

[@thurmanmerman2720]

Football means completely different sports to different people in different parts of the world. Soccer fans attempting to appropriate the name just for Association football is not just disrespectful but also historically dubious. The oldest extant football club in the world is Dublin University Football Club, who play rugby football. Staying in Ireland, to the vast majority there football means Gaelic football. The oldest codified form of football is recognized as Australian Rules Football. Of course there is the Rugby Football Union and the Rugby Football League who play football under their rules which have both spread around the world. In Australia "footy" can mean AFL, RL or RU. In NA football obviously means the gridiron form of the sport. Association football, or soccer for short, was an attempt to compromise between the different versions of football played by alumni of different English colleges and schools. It didn't work as clubs favoring the more manly forms of the sport in England walked out and this led to RU and RL. For any English soccer fans who are going to scweam and scweam until they are sick, just watch any classic interviews with luminaries such as Brian Clough or John Giles and guess what they call Assocciation football?

[@magdos7160]

656th

[@boggled007]

Rugby, a feeble excuse for ball grabbing. Group hug anyone? 😘

[@Rachel_M_]

😂

[@Mark_Bickerton]

It could also have it's roots in a version of Shrovetide football, played in many towns, but now very few... Ashbourne in Derbyshire being one of them. Restrict the number of players, the pitch, formalise the rules and voila!.. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Shrovetide_Football