Scrap helmets and pads, improve safety and technique

Sitch said

some of those 'ballerinas' in the youtube vids I posted are the toughest athletes to grace a football field and are encouraged to iron out others legally with encouragement from the governing body, what happened to our saints is considered ludicrous and absurd in the sport they play

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Well, some of those guys are the toughest athletes to grace a rugby field. American football is decidedly a different sport, and I'm not at all shocked to learn that rugby players look upon this 'incident' as ludicrous. I spent a part of my youth as a rugby fan, having met and hung out with a couple of teams that were playing out at the LSU parade grounds, had to be in 1973-74. I was very young but big into sports and wanted to learn how to play. I remember being told that rugby was much tougher and harder than American football because there was no padding and everything hurt. That didn't bother me so much, but what did was seeing the cleat slashes on legs, the broken tibias, dislocated elbows, and in one case an egg above one guy's eye that threatened to burst open at any second.

I know that the game of rugby is accepted as the norm in other parts of the world, but here American football is the norm and people are doing their best to keep it that way. (Not keep rugby out, but keep football, football.... You know?) We don't want to see it change. We don't want to see it turned into rugby.
There's rugby after all, who needs two copies of the same game?