From last weekend, here’s one of the most exciting plays in football in years — an amazing 15-lateral, 62-second-long, come-from-behind last play desperation miracle to end a Division III game between Trinity University and Millsaps College:

Compare and contrast with this string of rugby highlights I grabbed pretty much at random.  (These happen to be  from the 2002 New Zealand domestic club competition.) These are all great plays, but also perfectly typical of the game’s speed and excitement, the sort of thing rugby fans the world over take almost for granted.

You see the resemblance.