I know my colleagues have made some arguments for different Olympic sports’ greatness here at For The Win, but allow me to humbly submit my own opinion that their arguments are dumb and wrong.

Rugby sevens is the greatest sport at this year’s Olympics.

Don’t understand the game? It’s simple, and decently close to American football. Like the rugby you might know, seven players can’t pass the ball forward, they score by touching the ball down in the end zone (a try, worth 5 points), and they kick extra-points, though they’re all drop kicks and worth 2 points.

What’s different about sevens is that there are only seven players on the field, instead of the 15 in rugby union, and halves are only seven minutes long.

What’s that mean? It means this is the most thrilling sport you’ve ever seen, all full-field runs, broken tackles, non-stop action. You know those plays in football where there are 15 laterals and somehow they convert for a 80-yard touchdown and it’s the most thrilling play of the year? That happens like four times a game in sevens, and the games are only 14 minutes long.

For American fans, they have a rooting interest, too. The U.S. team is good, and considered one of the scary up-and-comers in the sport, who will soon be challenging perennial powers New Zealand, South Africa, Great Britain and Fiji.

The U.S. team features Carlin Isles, the former Olympic sprinter who switched sports after catching a game on TV. Also on USA is Nate Ebner, the Patriots’ special teams standout who is missing the first few weeks of preseason to be here. (Bill Belichick and the Patriots were wearing Ebner USA t-shirts at practice today.)

The Americans have speed and athleticism, and while the sport is still new here, the team is improving rapidly. Now we just need to get Marshawn Lynch on the team and we’ll be getting somewhere.