Making it as a rugby player in the NFL - Louis Rees-Zammit | Walk the Talk

Jim Hamilton joins Louis Rees-Zammit to discuss his move to the NFL, the differences between American football and rugby, and how he felt when he received messages from Taylor Swift, Travis Kelce, and Patrick Mahomes.
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[@shelleyfreeman9429]

LRZ so focussed on his dream, that is amazing. Wish him all the best.

[@smilekyle5906]

I live in Jacksonville, Florida. I am a huge Jag fan (even though they suck at the moment 😂). I am super excited Zammer is on the team. I’m really pulling for him to make the 53 and have a long and successful career in Jax. I also love rugby. The Leicester Tigers are my adopted team. I played for the Jax club team in the early 80s and had a ball doing it. What I could remember of the parties after the games was super fun. It doesn’t matter to me if the NFL is the most or least popular sport in the world. I like watching it especially if the Jags are winning. If they keep losing, hopefully they’ll call Zammer up and he makes the most of the opportunity. 🍻

[@danieldevereaux7267]

LRZ is awesome. Taking a risk and going for it is courage. The rd sounds like its been hard but he's showing some good resilience and oushing on with his new team. Well done.

[@chesterdonnelly1212]

For anyone wondering, Louis isn't small, Jim is a giant.

[@Nicodemaus1869]

Good luck LRZ negative people are loud but there are way more people in the world wishing you the best. Just don’t stop.

[@Patrick8804]

Jim reminds me of an old mate who used to say everything was the best in the world. If he went to a restaurant he’d be telling everyone at work the next day that it was the best in the world. If he listened to a live band it was the best in the world. If he went on holiday and it was pissing down with rain the whole time he’d still say it was the best holiday in the world.

[@mrhlawrence]

Brilliant!

[@caseygibson1234]

Good on him, living his dream!

[@robhuston303]

Wishing all the best for Louis. Gonna be awesome when the jags get him on the field.

[@TheBigJimShow]

Every sport is crossing over with other sports now. It’s great we have someone like LRZ to help open that door of the biggest sport in the world. Especially with the World Cup heading over to the US.

[@jameswyatt4443]

It’s not even close to the biggest sport in the world. Not even top 10.

[@chrisnunn7888]

Is NFL really the biggest sport in the world? I've never seen a game or highlight.

[@blankmedia01]

It's not. Their gassing it... it gets less views than champions league and less than tour de france and less than cricket and a few more sports

[@WORS06]

Fifa world cup - 5 Billion Viewers Tour De France - 3.5 Billion Viewers Cricket World Cup - 2.6 Billion Viewers Summer Olympics - 2 Billion Viewers Winter Olympics - 2 Billion Viewers Fifa Womens World Cup - 2 Billion Viewers Rugby World Cup - 857 Million Viewers Champions League - 450 Million Viewers Superbowl - 123 Million Viewers NFL is only big in the USA, nowhere else

[@user-yt9po9zq6m]

The biggest sport in the world is football without a doubt, and they call it soccer

[@free_stylabro6490]

@@liammclaughlin8307 NFL regular-season games averaged 17.9 million viewers, Premiership Football games have average viewership numbers of 600m per game. There is a huge difference.

[@JohnWilliams-fk3hb]

No where near as big as Football. Not even in the same ball park.

[@mattmorgan4083]

Good luck to the lad

[@blankmedia01]

NFL isnt the biggest sport in the world. It's the biggest sport in USA... nowhere else

[@motodudu]

Fair point 👍🏼

[@robertridley9279]

Usa is a big country though

[@just_some_bigfoot_hacking_you]

NFL isn't, but the sport of American football is now played in most countries like how Rugby football is also getting globally played. You see how baseball for example is now getting popular in Asia. American football is also surprisingly getting popular in Asia.

[@joeritchie2]

Great update, Big Jim. I was watching a recent Jags game and wondered what was up with him.

[@davidorgan2821]

LRZ never ran in traffic as a rugby player so running back would have been a baptism of fire in an explosive game. Good luck as a wide receiver!

[@slen6293]

This comes across like a comedy skit… “that was the life I was in and I was just rolling with it” hahaha.

[@hitchikerspie]

Realistically his chance of making it is extraordinarily slim, he’s 12 years behind the learning curve. I wish him all the best, but probably he sits on the practice squad for a few years like Christian Wade and then comes back to France.

[@GrantKanaar]

I think Kansas City Chiefs messed up by selecting him as running back. He was never suited to playing running back and he was judged by those 3 pre season games where he hardly got any opportunities at all in a position he was never suited to in the 1st place.

[@Badlighter]

Good luck Louis. However, rugby union is the greatest contact team sport. Other sports, like NFL and soccer/football, are just hyped and marketed better. Show a “neutral” fan any of the 2023 RWC quarters/ semis or final, and it’s second to none in terms of sporting theatre.

[@phillipdrake4371]

The fact that nfl teams stop playing for commercials should tell you who really runs the show.

[@uwanttono4012]

The NFL is a boring game imho. One hour of "football" takes almost four hours to play, with all the tv adds and time-outs. I actually fell asleep watching a game, not at home but in the stadium ffs!

[@fleshen]

It's not the biggest sport in the world it's the worlds biggest money grab!

[@devinjones8879]

It's neither

[@hitchikerspie]

By revenue of a single league it is by far the biggest

[@julienporisse9902]

LRZ has the athleticism, the speed and good size to make it as a WR. I see him more as a Kick Off and Kick Off returner on Special teams to begin with. I don’t understand why he’s not playing returner right now … because he has excellent vision as goes space, and using it to get past the defenses. I hope he gets activated soon, because there’s no real reason to waste his talent and Jacksonville needs talent FAST… time for the head coach to activate LRZ

[@Stormer-Europa]

Good luck to him. Can't stand the stop start nature of that game. 60min over 3 hours is for the brain dead.

[@davidpeters3857]

Cheslin Kolbe would be sensational if he had transferred as an 18 yr old,LRZ & Wade not good enough,speed isn’t everything,all WR’s have speed…….would love to see him make it though

[@hopeaguero7460]

Reez bro you be careful with venomous next to he twisted peoples words polished them for his bills.😳😳

[@MrOliverwoods]

The Dallas Cowboys are worth 10.5 Bn. They make 11.7 million a home game on just ticket sales. Owen Farrell make 1 M while special team players no one can name avg. 2.7 M. LR-Z makes doubles his rugby salary on the F’ing practice squad.

[@MrKelso85]

Exactly ! Logic - all the dumb hates on this young kid! He’s made 3 million in sales and Instagram growth and promo alone way more than his 250k at Gloucester and £50k international purse

[@hannesbornman1045]

We don't care about NFL thank you

[@Richiep1234]

You sound insecure

[@jameswyatt4443]

Can we stop talking about LRZ. He’s left rugby, and as a result he’s even more talked about in rugby than he ever was. If he doesn’t want to be a rugby player, then rugby needs to stop talking about. Let’s actually focus on our own sport.

[@gutcassidyandthesundancech5925]

American football is a blown out pompous display of 6-seconds of play followed by minutes of literal standing around totaling about 8-minutes of play for the entire game, and the league is occupied by the most abhorrent professional athletes in the world. So yea, it’s a great sport filled with great people…(yawn, what a joke)

[@dfmduarte2]

By biggest sport in the world you mean biggest sport in Texas?

[@arendsmith9527]

Easy there Jim, probably one of the riches leagues.

[@José-j9y3b]

Why promote nfl...

[@illegalkiwi2193]

Ah, yes, rugby..

[@dallorto194]

Ahhhh RugbyPass, maybe concentrate on rugby so that rugby fans can see content about rugby on a rugby channel! RUGBY! R U G B Y!

[@JohnWilliams-fk3hb]

He hasn't made it 😂. No Welsh lad grows up wanting to play NFL. Im not being Negative but the people around him have blown smoke up his arse. Never won anything in rugby union. Never Slammed it. Never won anything at club level. Never a test Lion. If he won all that and achieved big things in Union then yeah by all means crack on. Anyone advising him would be like go and play for Toulouse, Bordeaux, La Rochelle. Earn big money. Play a sport your good at. Keep your head down win things at club levell and concentrate on being a good Welsh player that's consistent. Then think towards the Lions in Oz. Nearly as bad as Waboso .

[@waynepieterse3941]

Not interested in this at all

[@MightyAj]

And yet here you are 🤔

[@dericbosch]

like like like like whateverrrr

[@MrOliverwoods]

The players that the NFL cuts would be prime beef for rugby. Cardio ? Christ they’re machines that need their cards changed to cardio work.

[@SuperNictastic]

wasting his time

[@tobolee6385]

Coming from a Welsh player ..take it with a pinch of salt ..not the best player in union by a long distance ...

[@davidorgan2821]

Not even the best west player…