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Retired NFL players vs retired Rugby players....

SanctionIISanctionII Posts: 12,002 ✭✭✭✭✭
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...... which of them have worse overall health?

In other words which sport chews up its players more?

Discuss.

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  • perkdogperkdog Posts: 30,192 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I don’t know enough about Rugby but they don’t have the pads that NFL players do but I don’t think they have high speed collisions like the NFL so I’m going with..... NFL!

  • LarkinCollectorLarkinCollector Posts: 8,975 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Perhaps counterintuitive, but the NFL could be made a lot safer without helmets/pads (and perhaps get to an 82 game season). So I'm going to guess the NFL chews up it's players more.

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  • doubledragondoubledragon Posts: 23,269 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The collisions in the NFL are often at full speed, and very violent. You won't see stuff like this in rugby.

  • doubledragondoubledragon Posts: 23,269 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Very violent collisions.

  • craig44craig44 Posts: 11,016 ✭✭✭✭✭

    i dont know anything about rugby, but I cannot imagine anything more violent than some of the tackles over the middle I have seen. they hurt me right through the tv screen.

    remember the mo lewis hit on drew bledsoe? it dislodged a blood vessel in his chest and he nearly bled out into his chest cavity before he made it to the hospital.

    George Brett, Roger Clemens and Tommy Brady.

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