Rugby players don’t wear helmets, but rather scrum caps, which do little more than prevent cauliflower ear-though again, it’s the helmet that allows for harder hits and a harder projectile, so helmets can be more dangerous for players than caps.Īnother key distinction comes from a sports fan on Reddit: So which sport is more dangerous? Rugby players wear far fewer pads, but it’s those pads that enable and embolden someone to hit another player with greater speed and force-and it’s the sudden stopping, not the impact itself, that causes the brain to crash into the inside of the skull, causing a concussion. Knowing how hard it was for Owens to accept himself as a gay man makes his acceptance by and respect from the game’s best all the sweeter to behold. This supercut of the legendary Welsh ref Nigel Owens explains the appeal of this approach, versus the NFL’s endless rulebook, far better than I can. Disputes and fouls are resolved swiftly, fairly, and decisively. Their infrequent scuffles are in the wrestling/bristling mode, not punching with venom.Īnd, crucially, the referee is The Law-and more in the Solomonic than the Draconian mode. Players rarely deliberately hurt one another when they do, they are banned for months on end. An equal one is the “culture of respect” that’s one of the game’s foundations and most carefully guarded traditions.
The constant action and amazing athleticism is one reason. I also join reader Ed in switching my interest to rugby, in the limited way I can with a basic cable contract. This as a Pats fan who for most of the 2000s was riding a high. A long-time reader, Tim, has been following our debate over the NFL and shifts our attention to another contact sport:Ĭount me among the many who have drifted away from the NFL, for all the reasons your readers have named: cheap patriotism, endless games, nitpicky rules unevenly enforced, CTE CTE CTE.
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