I don't know the first thing about rugby, though I understand that it's bad form to throw the ball forwards. I did once watch a game of American football on the telly for half an hour, and this is what I gleaned about proceedings:

1. Two lots of heavily-padded men stand around for five minutes doing nothing.

2. They form two lines, then another man throws a ball along the lines.

3. Both lots of padded men more or less ignore the thrown ball, but, instead, proceed to beat each other up for about one minute.

4. The two lots of padded men regroup, dust themselves down, stand around for another five minutes, after which the procedure is repeated.

5. As this is not very interesting after a while, on the touchline groups of beautiful young women, wearing frilly skirts that virtually reveal their actual delectable beknickered bottoms, jump up and down chanting frenetic support for their favourite bunch of padded men. By a large margin, this is the most watchable part of the whole proceedings, so much so that the actual game, already incomprehensible in any case, becomes no more than a sideshow.