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American FB is safer than ever. The number of injuries and 'roughness' doesn't impress me as a means of comparing sports.
I remember many broken teeth prior to mouthguards being required. That's the major safety improvement in my lifetime. (Also, I am so old that I remember hard leather helmets and red penalty flags.)
PS - I played rugby in college and it is rough. We had an expression, "You need leather balls to play rugby." No pads and no blocking. But it's a different game than FB so why bother comparing? Both games are great fun to play. Ex-HS FB players make good rugby players.
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