On 4 Feb 2008 22:32:57 -0500, "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:
>Carol Hague <carol@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> Paul Dormer <prd@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>> Well, you have to realise that over here, American football (as we
>>> call it) is an esoteric, alien art form.
>
>> Nah, it's just rugby for softies ;-)
>
>There's a long article in yesterday's weekly Wa****ngton Post Magazine
>about retired American football players and their serious health
>problems: Bad backs, bad hips, bad knees, dementia from repeated
>concussions, chronic pain, side effects from the medications for the
>above, etc. And about how neither the NFL nor their union will pay
>their skyrocketing medical or nursing costs.
>
>An activity which causes such damage doesn't sound very soft to me.
I've heard an anecdote, I don't know how accurate it is, of a couple
of American Football players who moved to Australia or New Zealand and
joined the local rugby team as the closest thing they could find to
American Football. Their team did extremely well till the Americans
figured out that playing rugby like it was American Football, without
all their armor, hurt a hell of a lot more.
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