10C - Sports Science Shorts: Which is Tougher, Rugby or Football?

This past Friday one of my personal favorite sporting events kicked off…the Rugby World Cup.  The NFL Football season is also of course now in full swing.  So, which sport has the bigger hits: football or rugby?

Links to articles discussed:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7tGY-VDx3o

http://www.sportingnews.com/nfl/story/2015-09-11/jarryd-hayne-49ers-nfl-rugby-league-running-back-position-cut-san-francisco-monday-night-football

http://espn.go.com/nfl/player/_/id/3423412/jarryd-hayne

Perceiving and acting upon spaces in a VR rugby task: expertise effects in affordance detection and task achievement.

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