Football forever

[MissWalshy]

Nice little win for palace yesterday ..

Really looking forward to the Tot match in an hour.

Then the mightly Liverpool take on Chelsea. (Ahh a lovely day ahead)

Money on Rob Kean 1-0

(tis doubtful but ahh you never know)

[Eric V]

It's real men. It's a bit like American football: in Europe we call it rugby and we don't wear all that protection so we know we are real men

Mick -- I'm watching the Super Bowl along with the rest of America at the moment, but I thought I'd peel off for a minute to say that these guys hit each other so hard that without the protection they would have fatalities every game. I have a new respect for the sport. I'm not a big football fan, and would much rather watch rugby (which we are not so good at yet), but this whole notion that we are somehow afraid to make contact is a non-starter. Put the All Blacks in with the Steelers -- without pads -- and I think we would have a southeast asian side dish in an hour. (and the All Blacks are my fave)

[soulfinger]

Palace 1 Preston 2

Surely not!

[Irish Rover]

Yeah MissWalshy won't be too happy.

[soulfinger]

I work with a load of Preston fans. They'll be bloody irritating tomorrow. Not as bad as the Blackburn lot last week though.

[Irish Rover]

Not as bad as the Blackburn lot last week though.

Yeah i can imagine they were quite happy with the result against Utd last week

[cougar]

these guys hit each other so hard that without the protection they would have fatalities every game. I have a new respect for the sport. I'm not a big football fan, and would much rather watch rugby (which we are not so good at yet), but this whole notion that we are somehow afraid to make contact is a non-starter.

Many of the players would wear more padding if they could move in it the same way they do without it - agressive linebackers and runningbacks for example. Many of these guys (although they certainly do not show it in their glossy uniforms and helmets) are seriously battered up and have been since their college days. Many have weak or weakened bodies after their careers are over not to mention the numerous (countless) injuries that never get healed and are never heard of that are sustained by players who are not in the limelight or well reported on. Ask many linemen and they will show you bruises on their upper bodies and arms that have been there for years and havent had a chance to heal. I don't even want to imagine what rugby players go through. I have a few American buddies who went to college in Scotland and came home to show me unrecognizable noses and other facial features deformed by hits on the rugby field. If there was ever a sport I was seriously attracted to and wish I played, it was rugby. I took some pretty darn good hits on the football field (U.S.) but it would truely scare my padless-self to death if I saw an experienced rugby player charging at me full speed.

[Niall]

these guys hit each other so hard that without the protection they would have fatalities every game. I have a new respect for the sport. I'm not a big football fan, and would much rather watch rugby (which we are not so good at yet), but this whole notion that we are somehow afraid to make contact is a non-starter.

Many of the players would wear more padding if they could move in it the same way they do without it - agressive linebackers and runningbacks for example. Many of these guys (although they certainly do not show it in their glossy uniforms and helmets) are seriously battered up and have been since their college days. Many have weak or weakened bodies after their careers are over not to mention the numerous (countless) injuries that never get healed and are never heard of that are sustained by players who are not in the limelight or well reported on. Ask many linemen and they will show you bruises on their upper bodies and arms that have been there for years and havent had a chance to heal. I don't even want to imagine what rugby players go through. I have a few American buddies who went to college in Scotland and came home to show me unrecognizable noses and other facial features deformed by hits on the rugby field. If there was ever a sport I was seriously attracted to and wish I played, it was rugby. I took some pretty darn good hits on the football field (U.S.) but it would truely scare my padless-self to death if I saw an experienced rugby player charging at me full speed.

rugby players do wear pads of sorts. Try playing gaelic football mate

[MissWalshy]

Yeah MissWalshy won't be too happy.

[Irish Rover]

Try playing gaelic football mate

Now theres a good sport

[Eric V]

I don't even want to imagine what rugby players go through. I have a few American buddies who went to college in Scotland and came home to show me unrecognizable noses and other facial features deformed by hits on the rugby field.

A good friend of mine took a boot to the face playing rugby. At dinner that night, as the swelling went down, his parents noticed that his face was now caving in around his eye. Off to the hospital. They cut him from ear to ear (over the head), peeled his face down, and put in titanium platelets to keep the piece of his skull that was broken lose from floating free. Hard to look a friend in the eye when you know his face was pulled down.

[Niall]

Try playing gaelic football mate

Now theres a good sport

with the only protective equipment is a gumshield for the softies

[Irish Rover]

Try playing gaelic football mate

Now theres a good sport

with the only protective equipment is a gumshield for the softies

Well we never had gumshields when i use to play back home, but i actually think they are quite a good idea.

[firehazard]

Well we never had gumshields when i use to play back home...

That's one way to get to be a Shane lookalike...

[Irish Rover]

Well we never had gumshields when i use to play back home...

That's one way to get to be a Shane lookalike...

haha indeed

Thankfully i still have all my teeth in place