[hanamizu]

I have a Brit friend that insists that “American footballers are p***ies!”

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Over the last few years I’ve taken to watching Premiership Rugby from England. They play a game very like our football in what amounts to soccer uniforms—no padding, helmets etc. It looks to be a very tough game. No commercial breaks, no forward passes, no blocking and whatever happens on the front row of a scrum I don’t want to think about.

Interestingly, the last Olympic gold medal for full-on rugby was won by the US in the 20s. Our team was made up of college football players so the two games still weren’t all that different.

[Reily]

Rugby is a wonderful game!
I played it for 15 years after college.
Believe it or not there are fewer knee & head injuries.
Reason fewer knee injuries, primarily because there’s no blocking. Fewer head injuries is because with no helmet you can’t use your head as a weapon.