I teach Martial Arts. I know for a fact that when you learn something new that your brain has just opened a new pathway. The more pathways that you have open then the greater your options when it comes down to confrontation. My judo training has translated extremely well into tackling in Rugby. My Martial Arts training has also helped me understand how to hit an opponent with an open hand and redirect a big body where I want him to go. Before Martial Arts I wasn't a very good football player and I guarantee you that now when I do play football I am always the first picked.
You don't understand how effective this training can be. In fact I have seriously been considering contacting the Saints FO. I have taught at the University level as well as various police and sheriff's departments.
I'm not bragging, I just want you to understand that this can and does benefit the people who can comprehend these skills.

Funny that, at the highest levels (NFL, UFC), there are a lot of football rejects doing MMA, but no MMA rejects playing football.

I've got to admit he has made a good point, however that one point does not validate his argument.

Athletics will always help anyone play sports, and there will always be some things from one sport that you can transfer to another: after all, sports include running, jumping, throwing, etc and using your hands and feet. But, to be GOOD at a sport, you need skills specific to that sport, and you do not get sport-specific skills by practicing another sport, period.

this is simply not true

i appreciate what you are trying to get at.....but like ive said before there are certain sports that have excercises that do help you in another sport

just like judo or most other martial arts

it helps to know how to control your weight and another persons weight when blocking

if you can manipulate your own weight and your opponents weight and take them down, then you can easily transfer that to a football field where your opponent no longer knows how to control their own momentum and you can take advantage of that

of course you do sport specific drills because those are the ones that will help the most.....but thats not to say that another drill from another sport couldnt possibly help you

Canton, my man.
Do you understand what you quoted?
Do you even practice judo? What's your degree?

Now, please, PLEASE tell me, how does judo help you:
run better routes?
catch a football? Tap your toes on the side-line?
throw a football accurately? or longer? Or just throw the damned thing in a spiral?
keep up with a WR?
make you decide whether you break to the inside or the outside?
kick a field goal from 40 yards out? Or a onside kick?
read a defense?
recognize a hole in the defense?
not fumble the ball?
how does an o-lineman take anyone down without getting a holding penalty?
I can come up with more, but I am just dying to hear this...

as far as judo....look up judo.....train in judo for a few weeks....then tell me it doesnt help because until you do, you have absolutely no idea what you are actually saying

do i practice judo? not anymore, but i have in the past.....i do recommend judo to any offensive lineman i coach because it teaches you how to grab and take an opponent down