Gridiron eyes suspended Sailor

[Flamethrower]

If this for real it is a sad statement about drugs in sport for the USA.

" Hell Man, a bit of coke never hurt a player!! "

Read it here
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,...a10295,00.html

[LarryNJ]

Has there ever been a Rugby player who has made the switch to NFL? I know there were a couple of punters who came from the AFL.

[.X.]

Larry, a Defensive Tackle for the Cardinals - Colin Scotts.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Scotts

Colin Scotts born 26th April, 1963 is distinguished by being the Australian to win a football scholarship in the United States to be drafted into the NFL.

He became the second Australian to play in the NFL after Colin Ridgeway, an Australian Rules convert.

Growing up in Sydney, Scotts first played rugby union and had a successful career in the sport.

He later moved to Hawaii, where he converted to gridiron.

After being drafted, he forged a successful career in the NFL playing a brief but successful career. He finished in his debut year, 1987, with a total of 7 games for the St Louis Cardinals cut short by injury.

After his retirement from the sport he shifted to business.

Later in life he became a WWF pro-wrestler.

Today, Colin is a motivational speaker.

[LarryNJ]

Rugby to football than to the WWF! He really had an up & down career.

I'm surprised that the NFL doesn't recruit more rugby players. Many of them look like they would make great running backs or linebackers.

[Burgs]

Keep your stinkin Yankee hands of them Larry

[Sagerian]

It would be difficult for him as he's 32, untested in the sport, it's unlikely he could block, he can't catch... the best I could see is that he could be a 3rd down specialist and maybe kick returns, how many teams would take the risk though?

[LarryNJ]

I don't think any team would even give him a tryout because of everything that you mentioned Sagerian. This Bennett dude obviously isn't a very good scout.

But again I think that there are many players who would be very good in the NFL.