Re: I watched the Superbowl!

Keith F. Lynch <kfl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 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.

It was a joke based on the fact that rugby players do the same stuff but
without the padding.  Presumably old rugby players have similar problems
- and quite a few die of broken necks IIRC.

-- 
Carol
"If you are allergic to a thing, it is best not to put
that thing in your mouth. Particularly if the thing is
cats." - Lemony Snicket _The Wide Window_