[texmexis best]

“The game of rugby instills a casual attitude towards injuries and personal safety.

I spent a week in the hospital every year that I played the game.”

It does indeed. I hurt everyday of every season that I played. If my knees would take it, I would still be playing today.

[naturalman1975]

I’m not sure how you guys were playing rugby :)

Maybe, because Americans are used to being armoured when they play football, they do things on the rugby field people who’ve played it all their lives never would.

It’s a rough sport and there is a potential for injury certainly, but it’s nowhere near as inevitable as is being claimed.

I’ve played regularly for... good Lord, it’s 40 years now - and I’ve been injured a total of about seven times.

[Reily]

I used to go to work in the fall and the spring with both eyes blackened and semi-permenant cut over my left eye.
It seems it would get cut the first or second game and never would completely heal until the season ended.

Never broke anything, those were fun days!