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There is a sport, a sport which only the toughest, meanest, most bloodthirsty can play. Mere mortals should never even ''dream'' of trying to play ''this'' game. No, it's not [[Rollerball]]. It's not [[The Running Man (film)|The Running Man]]. It's not even American football - those guys wear ''pads''. And they get to stop every ten seconds or so to rest!
No, it's ''wheelchair rugby''. Or, as the ''players'' like to call it -
''[[Murderball]]'' is also the name of the 2005 documentary ''about'' the men who play this sport, and, a somewhat wimpy ending aside, if there is a more testosterone-laden, manly film in the history of documentary moviemaking, it would have to be [[Project Grizzly|a film about a man who gets into fights with grizzly bears.]] (What? You mean there is one? Oh, dear...)
Regardless, this is the story of wheelchair rugby, a game played only by people who have impairment in two or more of their limbs. The rules are somewhere between basketball, rugby, and demolition derby, and if there's a visual analogy to watching a game, it's the last ten minutes of [[The Road Warrior]] ''if it was a competitive sport.''
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* [[Handicapped Badass]]: ''Everyone''.
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