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Alfie Inge Haaland , a victim of a pre-meditated kick to the back of the knee by Roy Keane during the Manchester derby, in 2001, STILL can't play properly, and is contemplating retirement.
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If Warren Sapp did a premediated hit on some quarterback, the poor QB would probably be broken in half. Hell, Brian Dawkins could kill someone if he hit them from behind and they weren't ready of it at all.
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Marco Di Vaio, he was knocked unconcious during a corner kick and swallowed his tongue in the process, which required urgent medical treatment.
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I'd list the numerous players who have been driven off a football field either unconcious, or without feeling in some part of their body.
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Marc Vivien Foe paid the ultimate price, collapsing and dying on the pitch during the middle of the game, mainly because he had to play more than 16 games in his season.
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16 games might not be alot, but 365 days a year of training is unimaginable. Jerry Rice, has trained harder than that guy for 19 straight years. Just because someone doesn't play a game for 349 days out of year doesn't mean they don't work hard. Don't forget about Kory Stringer who died of heat exhaustion in training camp. Granted, his conditioning probably wasn't as good as that soccer player, because he needed to carry around 200 more pounds of muscle and had to hit people, while running.
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Granted, the likelihood of getting their spinal cord snapped in half is a lot lower. However to soccer players, the phrase "torn knee ligaments" is just as serious as to an NFL player.
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Torn knee ligament means the same to every athlete.
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The main difference seems to be that soccer players don't need to prove how "tough" they are every week by quoting different injuries they had. Or the injuries that can occur to them.
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Oh, you can't list all the injuries you can receive in Football. Hell, if you need proof, just look back to last year and Hollis Thomas who broke his foot because the Nuturf or whatever the hell the Eagles bought was installed poorly. "Tough"? Tough is Donovan McNabb who snaps, not breaks, SNAPS his ankle in a tackle that would have made Stretch Armstrong look away horror. What does McNabb do? Come back and throw for 400 yards and 4 TD's in the same game. Tough is Byron Leftwich who's leg hurt so bad he needed his linemen to pick him up and run him to the huddle. Tough is a young, promising Dennis Byrd who breaks his neck on a normal play.
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Of the major sports, football is the unquestionably the roughest.
Then Hockey.
Then Soccer.
Then Basketball.
Then Tennis.
Then Golf.
Then Baseball.
NASCAR is not a sport.
Thanks for listening.
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Your list is slightly flawed.
1) Football is number one, it is a contact sport in the truest sense.
2) Hockey. The speed of the players, the strengh of players and a 100 mph puck rank it number 2.
3) Rugby. Rugby is not a true contact sport, but that isn't discrediting it at all.
4) Baseball. 4 Names, two from each spectrum. Clemens and Pedro. Piazza and Sosa. Throw in the shortstops and second basemen who have their knees aimed at every double play opportunity, and that is why this is ranked so high.
5) NASCAR and other racing. If Golf is qualified as a sport, racing is. Any sport where there is a possiblity of being slammed into a wall at a *recorded* 120 g's (Joe Nemachek I think...The_Dude would probably know for sure), or have your legs severed off (Alex Zenardi) not to mention the CART racers in Texas who after practice laps almost passed out because of the g forces on their bodies.
6) Soccer. Can have some truely painful moments, but far fewer than the other 5.
7) Tennis. Roddick/El Alineu, a 21-19 FIFTH set. It's surprising that neither one of them passed out in the middle of the final set.
8) Basketball. The toughest thing about basketball is taking a charge from Shaq.
9) Golf. While 36 holes in one day is extremely difficult, it happens rarely in pro golf, and is a stretch to even be included in this list.