Rugby and other sports 'linked to early onset dementia'

[JimC]

Well, until recently when they banned the shoulder charge in Aussie Rules, it was a much tougher game. The reason why is that Aussie rules doesn't have an on- and off-side. So you can get smashed from any direction. You don't see it coming, and you can't stiffen up and lower your centre of gravity to prepare. In the rugby codes, you can usually see what's about to hit you. Of course, when you don't, that's when the really big hits happen.

Well, technically it hasn't been banned; they have simply made it a reportable offence to make contact with the head, for whatever reason. A good shoulder bump with no head contact is still allowed...

[pErvinalia]

Ah ok. I thought they'd banned it. They've banned it in both League and Union. Well in that case, then AFL is definitely tougher than both Rugby codes (unless you are playing against Western Samoa )

[Audley Strange]

I always thought team games like Rugby and its mutants would be more exciting if all the players had scythes. I'd maybe watch some games then without thinking, "this is all really just a bit gay".

[Clinton Huxley]

Errr....

http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2013/s ... ting-claim

[mistermack]

I always thought team games like Rugby and its mutants would be more exciting if all the players had scythes. I'd maybe watch some games then without thinking, "this is all really just a bit gay".

Most sports are going gay.

Even womens' football. They just look like a bunch of dykes in those shorts. I used to think, '' why don't they wear hockey skirts ? '' until I saw the latest hockey skirts, which are pretty foul too.

I remember when hockey skirts were the sexiest thing possible that a girl could wear. Now they are pretty yuk.
I don't like american football, but at least the skirts are sexy. Why can't women soccer players wear something like that?

[Audley Strange]

I always thought team games like Rugby and its mutants would be more exciting if all the players had scythes. I'd maybe watch some games then without thinking, "this is all really just a bit gay".

Most sports are going gay.

Even womens' football. They just look like a bunch of dykes in those shorts. I used to think, '' why don't they wear hockey skirts ? '' until I saw the latest hockey skirts, which are pretty foul too.

I remember when hockey skirts were the sexiest thing possible that a girl could wear. Now they are pretty yuk.
I don't like american football, but at least the skirts are sexy. Why can't women soccer players wear something like that?

No not going gay, but overtly homoerotic by their nature.

[Horwood Beer-Master]

...Symptoms, which usually appear between 12 and 16 years after the boxer's career begins, can include memory, speech and personality problems...

Surely they have those before they take up rugby/boxing?

Do you know many rugby players or boxers?

Isn't wanting to take-up professional violence when you're older a personality problem.

[Babel]

I always thought team games like Rugby and its mutants would be more exciting if all the players had scythes. I'd maybe watch some games then without thinking, "this is all really just a bit gay".

Most sports are going gay.

Even womens' football. They just look like a bunch of dykes in those shorts. I used to think, '' why don't they wear hockey skirts ? '' until I saw the latest hockey skirts, which are pretty foul too.

I remember when hockey skirts were the sexiest thing possible that a girl could wear. Now they are pretty yuk.
I don't like american football, but at least the skirts are sexy. Why can't women soccer players wear something like that?

[laklak]

Rollerball, that's the ticket.

[JimC]

Rollerball, that's the ticket.

Just the correct mixture of sex and violence to keep teenage lads enthralled...