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Originally Posted by Trollheart
Oh come on! You of all people? How many American Footballers have had their careers ended due to injury? They don't head the ball, they don't have to contend with the kind of tackles soccer players do. Full contact sport? Tell that to someone who's been chopped down in the box, has to be stretchered off and is out for months, maybe a season.
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Okay, sounds like you clearly don't know what you're talking about. About 50% of American footballers break or seriously injure their legs/ankles, not to mention concussions and other **** like that. I've met a former player once and he said that the majority of his paycheck went to hospital bills and he still goes through physical therapy after racking up all those injuries. Given that these guys are out there tackling each other, it is also a full contact sport. Deny that if you want but you might want to fill Webster's in on your new definition.
Soccer can be dangerous too, but given that football revolves around people running into each other at full speed, it is much more dangerous. Hence the pads (which are a lot harder than you'd expect, it's not like they're wearing pillows out to the field). I don't even like either sport tbh, but facts are fax.