Posting an obscure Wikipedia article doesn’t make the two sports similar.

Quickly going to the two points I listed shows no analysis of how the players skills would translate across sports, but just a description of both sports’ rules.

I didn’t say union is the same skill set, I said saying American football and league does is preposterous.

Even by your own example, the Wikipedia page lists a miracle play as the best example that American football players can pass backwards, and the score in the crossover game listed shows the American football team scored zero points in the rugby league half while conceding 32. Almost as if they didn’t have the skills covered by the American football experience.

Honestly American football is not similar to either sport. The skills set is just completely different. Hell half of them don’t even tackle during the game.

I’m not sure if you haven’t watched American football or league based on this.

Passing and tackling would have to go back to very basics.

This is like saying chess is hard so kids should learn checkers and that they’ll be able to play checkers because snakes and ladders is on a grid.

Is it? Other thank tackle sets I can’t think of one similarity.