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    Feeding the Peanut Gallery Senior Member Redleg's Avatar
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    Quote Originally Posted by King Malcolm
    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.
    Last edited by Redleg; 10-25-2005 at 18:47. Reason: To correct spelling and add a sentence
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    What about the Eton wall game.

    What the hell is that about?

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    I think he is just making the point that calling it football is wrong, because they also use hands, unlike proper football in which it is illegal to use one's hands
    But wouldn't "Proper" football be "Real" football , that game where the whole town is the pitch , they use their hands in that .
    Any way American football isn't American , it is really an ancient Irish traditional game (or adaption thereof) , and I can prove it

    believe that is called a compound fracture here in the states
    Open fracture over here .

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    Quote Originally Posted by Redleg
    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.
    Yeah I'm just on a wind up. I actually quite enjoy watching american football - just wish they would get on with it sometimes.

    As for soccer - I have sprained both ankles 3 times playing as well as having fist fights with total strangers and best friends I don't play anymore!
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    Insomniac and tired of it Senior Member Slyspy's Avatar
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    Yes, American football bores me with its constant stopping and starting (and ad breaks). Yet I'll enjoy the long days of a test match. Weird.
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