[Texaggie79]

no, helmets are for planting into your opponents chest

[alex]

Come on, here is the chain of degradation: first you skip learning how to tackle properly, then you need helmet in order not to get killed, then you need pads to protect yourself from other people helmets, add to this replacements every 2 minutes so players can also skip on endurance and universal skills.

Real men learn how to tackle first (sure there is some blood spilled in the process, but these are real men) and after that they do not need helmets and hence they do not need pads either, also real men are playing whole 80 minutes doing both defence and offence whithout running in panic off the field whenever there is change in ball possession.

BTW, I understand the value of tradition and free people can choose to play by whatever rules they want to, however, there is simply no ground to claim superiority over Rugby.