(November 19, 2010 at 3:23 pm)Paul the Human Wrote: 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.
Watched a game once.
they lined up.
they ran at each other, for some reason they stopped, milled around a bit, lined up, ran at each other...............and so on.
And why is it called football when they either chuck it or run with it? very rarely does anyone kick the ball.
Why cant I be dismissive of something I know nothing about? dont you oppress me.
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
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