Rugby 7's and NFL players

• like_that

  

  The Rugby Sevens World Series is on NBCS. I know the US doesn't have a history of doing well in world competition, and I never played Rugby, but I had this discussion with my friend. If NFL players played Rugby, how good would the US be? Can you imagine a 7s starting lineup of AP, beast mode, mccoy, jamal charles, Forte, Navorro Bowman, and Patrick Willis?
  
  I mean, have you seen that lineup? WOW
• Commander of Awesome

  

  Maurice Clarrett played 7s I think.
• Ironman92

  

  like_that;1572034 wrote:The Rugby Sevens World Series is on NBCS. I know the US doesn't have a history of doing well in world competition, and I never played Rugby, but I had this discussion with my friend. If NFL players played Rugby, how good would the US be? Can you imagine a 7s starting lineup of AP, beast mode, mccoy, jamal charles, Forte, Navorro Bowman, and Patrick Willis?
  
  I mean, have you seen that lineup? WOW

  Pretty scary......Navorro needs replaced, his leg hurts.
• like_that

  

  Ironman92;1572054 wrote:Pretty scary......Navorro needs replaced, his leg hurts.

  He would be ready by the 2016 Olympics.
• Ironman92

  

  like_that;1572069 wrote:He would be ready by the 2016 Olympics.

  This is hopefully true.
• gerb131

  

  Some guy from the lions played yesterday and had a couple nice plays. I think he was on the practice squad.
  Ahman Green also plays.
• sportchampps

  My friend played against haloti ngata in high school. They played him in the national championship tournament. He said ngata would just destroy people and was actually kicked out of the championship match. Said ngata had a brother who was also a beast.
• Ironman92

  

  sportchampps;1572227 wrote:My friend played against haloti ngata in high school. They played him in the national championship tournament. He said ngata would just destroy people and was actually kicked out of the championship match. Said ngata had a brother who was also a beast.

  Yeah.....hell with that
• Classyposter58

  

  I think if our best played in each sport we would be unbeatable as a country in any sport. Soccer? Ok imagine if guys like Reggie Bush, Jamaal Charles, Adrian Peterson, Lebron James, Chris Paul for instance all played. The athletic ability alone would be almost too much, haha a 6'9" 275 guy with super athletic ability on headers would be devastating
• Heretic

  

  ^^
  How would the NBA guys react to being in a sport where flopping doesn't get you anything?
• like_that

  

  Classyposter58;1572235 wrote:I think if our best played in each sport we would be unbeatable as a country in any sport. Soccer? Ok imagine if guys like Reggie Bush, Jamaal Charles, Adrian Peterson, Lebron James, Chris Paul for instance all played. The athletic ability alone would be almost too much, haha a 6'9" 275 guy with super athletic ability on headers would be devastating

  Being tall and heavy is not an advantage in soccer...
• Iliketurtles

  

  Lawl... Classy just keeps getting better and better.
• Ironman92

  

  like_that;1572260 wrote:Being tall and heavy is not an advantage in soccer...

  Durant might make a nice goalie
• friendfromlowry

  Classyposter58;1572235 wrote:I think if our best played in each sport we would be unbeatable as a country in any sport. Soccer? Ok imagine if guys like Reggie Bush, Jamaal Charles, Adrian Peterson, Lebron James, Chris Paul for instance all played. The athletic ability alone would be almost too much, haha a 6'9" 275 guy with super athletic ability on headers would be devastating

  Those guys would be amazing in baseball, hockey, and tennis too, right?
• Classyposter58

  

  friendfromlowry;1572265 wrote:Those guys would be amazing in baseball, hockey, and tennis too, right?

  Haha they probably were growing up, shoot Calvin Johnson was blasting homers in BP with the Tigers earlier this season. If Lebron gave his life to soccer I guarantee he wouldn't be as heavy
• friendfromlowry

  Classyposter58;1572268 wrote:Haha they probably were growing up, shoot Calvin Johnson was blasting homers in BP with the Tigers earlier this season. If Lebron gave his life to soccer I guarantee he wouldn't be as heavy

  I suppose I'm not surprised your best example is of Calvin Johnson excelling in the ever difficult batting practice. And regardless of which sport Lebron plays, he's still 6'8", which is going to make him considerably heavier than the average soccer player.
• Al Bundy

  Classyposter58;1572268 wrote:Haha they probably were growing up, shoot Calvin Johnson was blasting homers in BP with the Tigers earlier this season. If Lebron gave his life to soccer I guarantee he wouldn't be as heavy

  Why would we need guys from so many teams? We could just take the Detroit Tigers and they would win the Superbowl, world cup, Stanley cup, Davis cup, federation cup, NBA championship, world series, America's cup, and 50 Olympic gold medals. Have you seen their lineup?
• Ironman92

  

  This thread could turn into what other sports might some of the players have been very good at.
• Classyposter58

  

  Ironman92;1572285 wrote:This thread could turn into what other sports might some of the players have been very good at.

  Haha Gretzky hit .500 in travel ball when he was 16 before quitting to play hockey full time
• like_that

  

  I bet Ricky Williams would have quit in his prime to play rugby.
• sportchampps

  Didn't they already do this before... It was a battle of the athletes show. I think a soccer player won. It's old someone needs to ask belly he will remember
• thavoice

  Classyposter58;1572287 wrote:Haha Gretzky hit .500 in travel ball when he was 16 before quitting to play hockey full time

  Tom Glavine reportedly was a very good hockey player but chose baseball.
  
  Wisely it seems!
  
  ALot of guys in the big 4 sports probably could have excelled in other sports. Hell, dave winfield was drafted in what...3 sports? For the most part, professional athletes are, of course, very athletic and if the effort was put towards another sport they easily could have excelled