Mr. England

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Rugby players are taken off with broken collar bones, ribs, and open lower leg fractures (where the bone sticks out), and that's just in Dundee between secondary school.

I believe that is called a compound fracture here in the states and yes people are taken off the field in American Football for the same type of injuries - minus the collar bone because of the shoulder pads - but they tried it off for cracked neck bones - all in all I rather break my collar bone - verse break in a neck vertebrae.

And all this happens in Junior High School - which would be your secondary equilvent to your secondary schools also.

Plus there are others out there every-year with even worse injuries all in the name of a contact sport.

People trying to say the either game (rugby or American football) is for pussies either attempting to get your goat - or just are plain stupid.

BTW soccer is not a pussy sport either - lots of hard running and many leg injuries happen in that sport also - to include compound fractures of the legs because of contact. Again calling any sport that involves physical endurance and exertion is for pussies well shows a lack of character in that individual.