Rugby based on the stats as they are protected by very little armour
football
In South Africa Rugby Union Players are paid an average of four times that of Football players who in turn urn more or less the same as the Cricket Players before the IPL Cricket Tournament was formed.
Soccer players are paid vastly more at the professional levels than rugby players
A Rugby Union players gets much more than Rugby League players. Rugby League players get between (in average) 80,000k-120,000k. The highest paid rugby league player earns 500,000k a year.
football players get paid more
American Football is more violent than rugby because in American football you have 22 players crashing into each other while in rugby, except in a scrum, you only have people going after one player.
if you were a true football fan you would know that NFl is better than rugby the reason is because its more popular,the players are better and every player in the NFL is famoius and gets paid more
Football (soccer) started as a pro game much sooner and has been marketed world wide
soccer players
Both Rugby League and Rugby Union, gaelic football, croquet, hurling, ladies football, camogie
Because Football pulls in alot more money than Rugby. More people pay to watch it on TV, they get higher attendances for matches, meaning bigger sponsorship deals, sell more merchandise and basically more people are interested in football & watch it.