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Onyxmeth said: I had a good feeling, but I couldn't find any articles to back my claim up and didn't want to talk out of my ass. People that don't follow the sport have no idea that pads became a necessity over time to keep the players alive. I guarantee if football players didn't wear pads like Rugby players do then there would be severe casualties every single game. Shoot, there would probably be over a dozen deaths a season.
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That is probably true. The sport was almost (or briefly was I forget) outlawed on college campuses because of the number of deaths associated with the sport. That is when the pads became a part of the game. Football is way way harder on the body than Rugby is. Rugby players are just too proud to admit they couldn't handle a rougher game.
OT: It is because there is no way to work in a commercial break. If you can't sell the sport to advertisers, then you can't sell the sport to the American audience (as it will never be on).
