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# Ooooh
Not sure it works like that :)

It'd be american soccer
(I helped save b3ta! cooler_king That's no moon!, Wed 21 Feb 2007, 13:25, archived)
# Their feet barely see the ball.
Can't we sue them for false advertising?

And then for wearing so much padding? Or at least mock them for it.
(I helped save b3ta! Captain Wow currently being a cunt in Infamous, Wed 21 Feb 2007, 13:27, archived)
# Well in fairness, American footballers take a lot more of a hammering than rugby players do
The helmets are kind essential and pads just follow suit
(I helped save b3ta! AutoPrawn is glad we're living in the future now, Wed 21 Feb 2007, 13:29, archived)
# Pfft.
If they're allowed so much padding it should be all covered with four inch spikes to even it out.
(I helped save b3ta! Captain Wow currently being a cunt in Infamous, Wed 21 Feb 2007, 13:30, archived)
# yes.
(I helped save b3ta! ivesb Highly specialised Clinical Physiologist crapbag, Wed 21 Feb 2007, 13:34, archived)
# You need to campaign for the legalisation of rollerball.
(I helped save b3ta! AutoPrawn is glad we're living in the future now, Wed 21 Feb 2007, 13:35, archived)
# But they only take a hammering for half the time
The other half they're sitting under and air conditioner.
(I helped save b3ta! cooler_king That's no moon!, Wed 21 Feb 2007, 13:31, archived)
# yea lol, the 60 man squads are a bit of a pisstake sometimes
(I helped save b3ta! AutoPrawn is glad we're living in the future now, Wed 21 Feb 2007, 13:35, archived)
# rubbish
it's less brutal than rugby
and padding only makes the contacts heavier
(I helped save b3ta! mictoboy shitting in your cunt since, Wed 21 Feb 2007, 13:31, archived)
# still beg to differ
Those receivers get crunched pretty much every ball and often by 2 or more guys. Rugby at least you go down on the run and have the option to pass it off
(I helped save b3ta! AutoPrawn is glad we're living in the future now, Wed 21 Feb 2007, 13:34, archived)
# It was an arms race, though:
the padding increased the impact players can cope with, so they can hit harder, so their opponents needed armour, which meant it harder to stop them, so the defence got more armour, so the offence needed more armour...

The style of the game has been changed by the armour and padding of the 20th Century. Look at what they were wearing in the 1920s - it's hardly more than a rugger scrum wears now.
(I helped save b3ta! no cake for the impuritay Patrick Stewart hasn't aged since, Wed 21 Feb 2007, 15:03, archived)
# bunch of girls.
(I helped save b3ta! ivesb Highly specialised Clinical Physiologist crapbag, Wed 21 Feb 2007, 13:31, archived)