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Someone once explained to me that rugby is a contact sport, and American football is an impact sport. The padding allows players to hit each other harder withou
by elliottkember 9y ago
Someone once explained to me that rugby is a contact sport, and American football is an impact sport. The padding allows players to hit each other harder without bruising or direct impact, while the brain still bangs around in the skull.
- bonesss 9y agoWe have an intuitive understanding of impacts that don't reflect the reality of the risks... Boxers wear gloves to protect hands, not heads, and those big pillows mean harder hits mean more brain damage. Bareknuckle boxing is better for the brain. No rugby player is lining up his skull and charging other players skulls like a ram or a goat, that would hurt, so they don't do it. Football players really need less protection for their heads so they stop doing things that are dumb for their brain. The challenge with football is that the obvious corrections to the game would seem to be quite fan unfriendly... Touch football is hard to imagine on FOX SPORTS.
- mixmastamyk 9y agoIn the old days they had soft helmets, probably should go back.
- shams93 9y agoYeah my uncle played rugby for over 30 years with no major injuries when you don't have pads it definitely changes the nature of the game and ironically for the better.
- eru 9y agoThough Rugby can still break your spine, I think?
- powercf 9y agoYes, mostly at amateur level. Rugby (union) also has problems with serious injury, and it shouldn't be considered a better, or safer American football. At national level many teams play a very direct style - smash repetedly into the opposition until you create a hole. I think the IRB should make whatever rule changes are neccessary to encourage more running-rugby, and make "the hit" less important.
- tome 9y ago> the IRB should make whatever rule changes are neccessary to encourage more running-rugby Turn it into rugby leage?