headhunter wrote:It's not, most Americans struggle to understand that RL and RU are different sports, they refer to both as just 'rugby' and their perception of the sport usually depends on which code they were exposed to first. Americans getting a good look at RU and seeing how bad it is is definitely not good for RL.
We're not dealing with the sharpest knives in the cutlery drawer here....so no harm done!