they took me to a game while i was visiting there a little while ago and they knock the bejezus outta each other. do a lot of them get brain damage, you know, like mohammed ali?
2007-09-15 17:30:00 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Check out the States progress in the World Cup at the moment. Rugby's a great game.
PS If the Texas Rangers were swinging proper cricket bats when they beat the Orioles a few weeks back, how many more points would they have scored. Ha Ha
2007-09-15 17:40:38 · answer #1 · answered by Barry K 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I once saw a bunch of American Footballers before they got kitted up, talk about weedy! All pale and pimply and teeny weeny. It was so funny. I knew they wore padding, but I didn't realise they wore that much!
Not sure about the brain damage, I know plenty of rugby players and they are all fun, smart guys (so far!). Lots of cauliflower ears and squished noses though, and there's always a few burst eyebrows. They use vaseline on their faces like boxers to help prevent cuts and scrapes.
Takes a lot of balls to play rugby!
2007-09-16 02:52:15 · answer #2 · answered by Rebecca 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because Rugby football is a man's game. I remember one old colleague of mine - big guy - who used to come in to work every Monday morning with bruises all over his face, two cauliflower ears, a twisted nose and a huge smile. As the week progressed, he came to look more and more human until on Friday he looked almost normal. Then on Monday morning, the cycle started all over again. No evidence of any brain damage though.
2007-09-16 04:20:32 · answer #3 · answered by Martin 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Nope but unlike American football, rugby is played by real men!!!
2007-09-16 00:59:57 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
because rugby is a man's game, they don't need loads of padding like your American football players, which incidentally what you call football isn't, the game you call soccer is actually football not that mish-mash you call football.
2007-09-16 01:14:31 · answer #5 · answered by Tom M 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
nope they don't but then they are real men and don't need the padding like the ones in Texas.....lol lol just joking.......
regards
2007-09-16 00:44:51 · answer #6 · answered by candy g 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
were tough here in the uk
2007-09-16 04:57:13 · answer #7 · answered by sonny 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋