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Compare [[Blood Sport]]. For information on the game, see [[Rugby League]] or [[Rugby Union]] (yes, there are two different versions).
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* [[Truth in Television]] for anyone in the UK who wasn't built like an eleven-year-old brick shithouse and had to face down a squadron of their classmates who were in enforced physical education lessons.
** Just watch the ball and stay away from it.
* Buck Shelford famously had his scrotum ripped in a ruck, playing for New Zealand against France in 1986. Famously because with one testicle dangling free, [[Badass|he calmly asked the doc to stitch him up]] [[Rated M for Manly|and went back out to play.]] He ended the game with four teeth knocked out and a concussion, [[Laser
* John Sattler in the 1970 Grand Final for the Australian Rugby League. Suffered a broken jaw only ten minutes in, to which he reacted to be refusing to be taken for treatment or even be shut out of plays to avoid further injury. He finally agreed to go to hospital, after remaining on-field for most of the match, accepting the winner's trophy and making the acceptance speech.
* [[Gordon Brown]] become blind in his left eye after he was kicked in the head during a rugby union match when he was a student.
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