(October 6, 2019 at 12:37 pm)Athene Wrote: Why don't rugby players wear protective gear?
Or do they?
Some of the forwards wear scrum caps, everybody wears mouth pieces and jockstraps.
"Protection" a la NFL is actually very counter productive because a) it gives a false sense of security to the wearer, thus vastly increasing stupid shit like tackling the other player by essentially doing a flying head butt, and b) given the weight of the players, the speed at impact, putting an extra 50-100 lbs on them is simply increasing momentum to little by way of impact protection.
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