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    US Professional Rugby League Coming Soon!!

    A link from Something Awful forum. Plus I've been interested in both rugby codes for years, but it's incredibly difficult to find any kind of rugby on American TV. Or any other non-American sport, for that matter. My first exposure to rugby was in the late 1970's when ABC's Wide World of Sports...
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    US Professional Rugby League Coming Soon!!

    Do people outside the USA understand how big California is, both in terms of geography, and in population? It's huge. It could easily support three or four rugby league teams if there were owners willing to buy in; you could easily put a team in San Diego, Los Angeles, the San Francisco Bay...
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    US Professional Rugby League Coming Soon!!

    Russell Crowe is the only person connected to rugby league that anyone living in America is likely to have ever heard of. The is a common misconception promoted by the media. Football - soccer - did not need a "kick start"; it was doing just fine before Beckham showed up, and will continue...
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    US Professional Rugby League Coming Soon!!

    Rugby union has been trying to do this for years but it's very difficult for a new sport to break into high school (and younger) athletics. These youth sports organizations are dominated by gridiron (and to a lesser extent, baseball and basketball) coaches and administrators who don't look...
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    US Professional Rugby League Coming Soon!!

    I watch a lot of soccer on TV in the USA, allow me to comment. If you're talking about free-to-air, broadcast national networks that some people still receive with an antenna, you've got one or two MLS matches a year on ABC, without any advertising interruptions, plus World Cup matches every...
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