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martyb
on Wednesday November 01 2017, @11:58AM
from the American-game-of-FOOTball-which-is-played-using-your-HANDs dept.
from the American-game-of-FOOTball-which-is-played-using-your-HANDs dept.
ESPN pays $2 billion a year to the NFL for Monday Night Football and one NFL wild card playoff game. I've written for the past couple of years that as ESPN's business collapses that ESPN's decision on whether or not to bid to keep Monday Night Football would be the first big test of how rapidly that business is deteriorating.
What's a deteriorating business look like? In the month of October ESPN lost over 15,000 subscribers a day in October per the latest Nielson estimates.
15,000 a day!
Losing 15,000 subscribers per day is a lot, but is that because of the NFL anthem protests or because cord-cutting has finally reached a tipping point?
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(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Wednesday November 01 2017, @03:41PM (4 children)
There's still plenty of opportunity for injury in rugby. Some of the common areas of play where it happens include:
- The scrum, where groups of 6 players all locked together push directly at each other head-first. Until the invention of the scrum cap, ear damage was very common in a scrum.
- Rucks, where a player has been tackled and now there's a pile of guys trying to get the ball out to their teammates. The simple fact that play didn't stop after the tackle means the guys on the bottom of the pile are frequently stomped on with no option but to lie there and take it.
- Mauls, where a mass of teammates try to push the guy carrying the ball forward while a mass of defenders try to push him back (and this can and does turn into a ruck once somebody loses their balance).
Concussions are also quite common with rugby [telegraph.co.uk]. Also worth mentioning is that in rugby it's much more common for a player with injuries to remain in the game, because there isn't the constant substituting of players and play stoppages that you get in American football.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 4, Informative) by bob_super on Wednesday November 01 2017, @04:56PM
Before there were cameras dissecting every movement on the field, Rugby players were keeping each other reasonable by reminding any guy playing mean/dangerous that he would soon get a turn at the bottom of the pile. Anyone who didn't get the hint quickly was likely to limp for a few days.
The additions of the skull caps, and the professionalization which caused the average player to gain 50 to 100 pounds in the gym, are causing more injuries.
But at least, the play doesn't stop every 9 seconds for a beer commercial.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 01 2017, @05:05PM
No one will dispute that, but the stats are clear that rugby is safer than US football.
(Score: 2) by isostatic on Wednesday November 01 2017, @05:44PM
This is an argument that's been raging on this site for decades:
https://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=24079&cid=2605409 [slashdot.org]
(Score: 2) by Whoever on Thursday November 02 2017, @01:41AM
Broken bones, cuts, yes.
But the chance of traumatic brain injuries is much lower when playing Rugby.