Tuesday, February 3, 2009 7:13:42 PM
All the deaths and serious injuries in the old American Football were actually caused by the rules still present in Rugby. America simply sterilized the rough and tumble game of rugby because they couldn't stomach the more brutal game. Americans always excel in a game that no one else plays.
1) [b]The game of football was even more dangerous in its early days, before the invention of the forward pass[/b]
2) in 1904, when President Teddy Roosevelt threatened to ban the game due to 12 collegiate deaths. [b]At this period in time the game was really a North American variation of Rugby. The rules were changed, primarily altering the way players would now line up for the "scrimmage" - originally it had been a "scrum"[/b]
3) [b]Every year a few people still die playing although I think most of these now are either heat related or from hidden medical conditions[/b].
Tuesday, February 3, 2009 7:11:37 PM
According to this report titled "Football similar to car crashes?" conducted by Virginia Tech in 2004 there were "five (that) came off the sidelines this season with concussions". http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/01/0...
Queensland University also presented this report to the Journal of Sports Science and Medincine in 2004 that showed that there were "Forty-three consecutive concussions were recorded over three competitive seasons in 175 professional Rugby League players". This is 43 reported concussions per year. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15518305
Tuesday, September 30, 2008 5:28:12 AM
You're missing the point, Prime - because of the startling differences in either tests, the result will *always* be falacious. At the very least (Even if two different athletes were used) you still have to have them squaring up against the same impact targets. There have to be as *few* variations as possible and there were too many to count in that so-called experiment.
Also, how is comparing an Pro American Footballer to what looks like American weekend-rugby players? Yeah - that`s science. Try sizing that monosyllabic meathead up against someone who`s actually representative of a decent Rugby team (England/New Zealand/Australia/France/South Africa)
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