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Line 75: *** It's also mentioned that about 90% of the fouls can be prevented from ever happening by just not letting anyone use their wands while on the field. * The [[P. G. Wodehouse]] [[Jeeves and Wooster (novel)\|Jeeves and Wooster]] story "The Ordeal of Young Tuppy" has the titular [[Upper Class Twit]] getting involved in the yearly [[Rugby Is Slaughter\|rugby grudge-match]] between two rival villages; the event quickly proves to be an excuse for the participants to beat on each other. * The impromptu football match between the armies of [[Discworld\|Ankh-Morpork]] and Klatch in ''[[~~Discworld/Jingo\|~~Jingo]]'' is scored by fouls rather than goals. ''[[~~Discworld/Unseen Academicals\|~~Unseen Academicals]]'' suggests that this is how Ankh-Morpork street football is traditionally scored. The Big Match at the climax of the book also has an example; ''most'' of A-M United realises that playing UU fairly is both good for the game and not actually that difficult, but there's a handful of real psychos seeded in there, and they're careful only to act when the ref isn't looking (linesmen haven't been introduced yet). * The UU team are amateurs so the professional players of A-M United have every advantage. The smarter pros realize that and are also aware that the opposing team are actually ultra powerful wizards who will likely enact their own Unnecessary Roughness after the game. The Librarian alone is known for beating people to a bloody pulp for calling him a monkey (he is an orangutan). Line 129: * There was a game between the Carolina Panthers and the Atlanta Falcons where, after a late hit on Mike Vick, an on field brawl started. Dispite several punches being thrown, some hard enough to knock players helmets off, no penalties were called, and no one was ejected. * [[Dwayne Johnson]] (yes, The Rock) was recruited by the University of Miami to play football, but injuries kept him out of the starting lineup for most of his college career. His biggest moment in a game was when he became involved in a bench-clearing brawl (Miami vs. San Diego State) and was shown on ESPN chasing the San Diego mascot screaming "I'll kill you!" * A March 2012 [https://web.archive.org/web/20140117200611/http://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/redskins/washington-redskins-offered-bounties-for-big-hits-under-former-assistant-coach-gregg-williams/2012/03/02/gIQAH0RlnR_story.html story] describes an illicit arrangement in which Washington Redskins players were paid bonuses for deliberately injuring opposing players to take them out of the game. === Basketball === Line 170: {{reflist}} [[Category:{{PAGENAME}}]]▼ [[Category:Trying to Catch Me Fighting Dirty]] [[Category:Sports Story Tropes]] ▲[[Category:{{PAGENAME}}]]