Russell Crowe

Every time a player is tackled, you re-compete for the ball.

You have rocks, mauls, you have line-outs.

It's a very different game.

But there's another version of rugby called Rugby League, which was played in the north of England.

And that has a defined period of offense and defense.

And I think that's where American football comes from.

I actually own a team in Australia.

The NRL, the National Rugby League, the South Sydney Rabbitohs, the oldest team in the game, 1908 we were formed, bought the team in 2006.

And it's very easy to explain to Americans.

Have American friends come down.

I spend maybe 20 minutes talking to them and they get the game and they start to dig it.

My girlfriend at the moment, actually, Brittany.

It was one of the reasons why I really started being attracted to her because she understood the game straight away.

Then I find out that when she was younger, she was a cheerleader for the New Orleans Saints.

While she was studying electrical engineering.

Wow.

so it's yeah it's a very similar rugby league is a very easy game for americans to follow now how it's refereed becomes frustrating for an american audience because it's there's so much room for interpretation referee to referee game to game situation to situation so it can get frustrating i think one of the greatest things about american football from the outside from an objective point of view

It seems that every single thing that the NFL try to do is based on an across-the-board fairness for everyone.

So the conversations between the referees and what have you seem to be everybody's on the same page.

Sometimes when you're watching rugby league, something that you saw somebody else get sent from the field for the week before and now nothing happens this week.