Why does the NFL play way less games than other sports?
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I once asked a college athlete a similar question: “Why do football players wear so much protective equipment, while soccer and basketball players seem perfectly fine in T-short and shorts?”
He explained that football is unique, in that it a game of irregular bursts of intense violence, rather than extended continuous activity.
Soccer and basketball players are constantly on the move and continuously “warmed up,” so they wear very little protective equipment and yet have fewer and less intense injuries.
Football players, on the other hand, suit up like Knights of the Round Table and still sustain some of the most severe and frightening injuries.
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