The padding is needed, since there are a lot more hard impacts than in rugby. Even with all that padding, broken bones, twisted joints, and concussions happen very regularly. The games are superficially similar, but they are really quite different. American football is far rougher and more violent than rugby, although rugby fans don't like to hear that.
Go ahead. Call an American football player a sissy to his face. The average size is somewhere around 6' 2" to 6' 6" tall and 250 to 300 lbs... and they slam into each other as hard as they possibly can... over and over again.
Don't be so dismissive of something about which you know nothing.
Go ahead. Call an American football player a sissy to his face. The average size is somewhere around 6' 2" to 6' 6" tall and 250 to 300 lbs... and they slam into each other as hard as they possibly can... over and over again.
Don't be so dismissive of something about which you know nothing.
