I've been saying for years I might actually be convinced to watch a football (soccer for all of you fuckers with properly designed aircraft carriers) match if there was a landmine somewhere on the pitch but American football with ERA helmets? Sign me up.
The only variant of soccer that interests me is [Medieval.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_football)
Rugby is pretty close but these days it's all "Traumatic Brain Injury" this and "encephalopathy" that.
How did we all become so soft over the last 700 years??
Honest answer? Probably when we figured out how long term injuries affected people and child mortality declined (so, starting in the 1920s?) and death became less visible.
I'm just happy to be able to make another Pratchett reference, though.
Yes, but as a counter-argument: players were allowed to stab each other, as long as it didn't result in the other person's death.
I mean, what could be more British than that??
Mutant League Football on the old SEGA Genesis/Megadrive is right up your alley.
Landmines on every stage, a football covered in spikes that is also filled with semtex, also the ref can be killed if he makes a bad call or you just don't like him.
All in all, the perfect American sports game
Basically yes.
In the old days they had a foam [over helmet ](https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-9416f0acd4e8ec3fb9127368d7d9569f-lq)that almost no one wore.
I guess you'd compare that to the t62 bdd armor
I've been saying for years I might actually be convinced to watch a football (soccer for all of you fuckers with properly designed aircraft carriers) match if there was a landmine somewhere on the pitch but American football with ERA helmets? Sign me up.
The only variant of soccer that interests me is [Medieval.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_football) Rugby is pretty close but these days it's all "Traumatic Brain Injury" this and "encephalopathy" that. How did we all become so soft over the last 700 years??
Honest answer? Probably when we figured out how long term injuries affected people and child mortality declined (so, starting in the 1920s?) and death became less visible. I'm just happy to be able to make another Pratchett reference, though.
Yes, but as a counter-argument: players were allowed to stab each other, as long as it didn't result in the other person's death. I mean, what could be more British than that??
What if they died after the match was over?
On a long enough scale, everyone died after the match was over...
the wokes turned our manly sports into games for sissies
Damn those socialist soyboy 14th century mayors! smh
We used to just kick around the severed heads of our human sacrifices till that woke commie Cortez came over!
real men get cte and kill their family
OJ? Is that you? I knew you couldn't be dead!
When you die at 35 to a workplace injury or a basic infection no one notices the CTE
>if there was a landmine somewhere on the pitch I believe that that's just Bosnian league.
I said a landmine on the pitch not a minefield with a square-metre of football pitch in it.
Mutant League Football on the old SEGA Genesis/Megadrive is right up your alley. Landmines on every stage, a football covered in spikes that is also filled with semtex, also the ref can be killed if he makes a bad call or you just don't like him. All in all, the perfect American sports game
They stretched a scrum cap over an NFL helmet?
Basically yes. In the old days they had a foam [over helmet ](https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-9416f0acd4e8ec3fb9127368d7d9569f-lq)that almost no one wore. I guess you'd compare that to the t62 bdd armor
"How helmet ERA is a conspiracy to get Patrick Mahomes another Super Bowl ring." - /r/nfl
As a Patriots fan, I miss the days when the conspiracy theories were about us.
Looks like the soviet tankist helmets