[agere_contra]

American football is for pansies. They're essentially playing Rugby, but in body armor. That is so gayyy.

Real football is played at breakneck speed for ninety minutes. And I mean 'breakneck' - the concept of 'injury time' comes from Football.

[driftless2]

"body armor"

American football was forced to adopt "armor" as you call back in the early nineteen hundreds simply because too many players were ending up dead. In fact, Teddy Roosevelt was among the people who raised an outcry and called for making the sport safer. How many rugby players die each year from playing their sport?