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[[File:Unnecessary_Roughness_3050.jpg|link=FIFA World Cup|frame|[[Mortal Kombat|FINISH]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01FaE7ICDsk#t=38s HIM!] ]]
 
{{quote| ''"Personal foul...Unnecessary Roughness... defense number 92! 15-yard penalty...[[American Football|automatic...First Down!]]"''}}
 
Most probably [[Destructo-Nookie|not the roughness]] [[Freud Was Right|you were thinking about.]]
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* A guard drop-kicking a prisoner in order to tackle him in ''[[The Longest Yard]].'' (This is visible in the trailer.) In fact, the entire football game in ''The Longest Yard'' has lots of [[Unnecessary Roughness]] going on, on both sides. The opportunity for [[Unnecessary Roughness]] is really the only reason the prisoners agree to play the game in the first place.
** Though in this and the following examples case, the games are exhibition games between guards and prisoners - they may very well have decided to allow roughness for the sake of it.
{{quote| Samson: I think I broke his fuckin' neck!<br />
Announcer: I think he broke his fuckin' neck!<br />
Team doctor: One side, one side. [Examines injured player] Get the ambulance! I think he broke his fuckin' neck.<br />
Samson: See! I told you I broke his fuckin' neck! }}
* The Vinny Jones vehicle ''Mean Machine'', a remake of the ''The Longest Yard.'' is centered around an association football (AKA soccer) match between prison inmates and guards. It seems only an excuse for both parties to kick the hell out of each other, the prisoners going as far as recruiting a deranged kung-fu serial killer and giving their players lessons on how to hurt their opponents while avoiding penalties.
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** To be fair, there were plenty of instances of the Giants committing holding or facemask with no penalty
* The evil Iceland team from ''[[The Mighty Ducks (film)|The Mighty Ducks]] II'' sends its captain to take a vicious slash at Banks, breaking his wrist. Despite that such an obvious attempt to injure would get him ejected from the game (at minimum), he only gets a 2 minute minor penalty and Lampshades it on the way to the penalty box.
{{quote| Gunnar: "Two minutes is well worth it."}}
** And ironically, Gunnar made a rather pointless [[Heel Face Turn]] at the end, blowing his own coach off to congratulate Banks personally. "Good job, Captain Duck" indeed.
** This also happens in the first film, when one of the [[Designated Villain|Hawks]]' players runs Banks from behind, taking him out of the game.
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* In the NBA, Bruce Bowen was notorious for being the league's dirtiest player after the rules were cleaned up and more anti-defense following the Jordan Era
* [[wikipedia:Kermit Washington#Infamous punch|The Other Wiki]] details the Rudy Tomjanovich-Kermit Washington incident from December 1977:
{{quote| "Washington saw Tomjanovich running toward the altercation. Not knowing that he intended to break up the fight, Washington hit Tomjanovich with a roundhouse punch. The blow, which took Tomjanovich by surprise, fractured his face about one-third of an inch (8 mm) away from his skull and left Tomjanovich unconscious in a pool of blood in the middle of the arena. Jabbar likened the sound of the punch to a watermelon being dropped onto concrete. Tomjanovich had a reputation around the league as a peacemaker. [...] Reporters heard the sound of the punch all in the way in the second floor press box, and some rushed to the playing floor in disbelief. [...] besides having the bone structure of his face detached from his skull and suffering a cerebral concussion and broken jaw and nose, he was leaking blood and spinal fluid into his skull capsule. His skull was fractured in such a way that Tomjanovich could taste the spinal fluid leaking into his mouth. He later recalled that at the time of the incident, he believed the scoreboard had fallen on him. The doctor who worked on Tomjanovich said "I have seen many people with far less serious injuries not make it" and likened the surgery to Scotch taping together a badly shattered eggshell."}}
** Washington's career slowly petered out into early retirement afterwards, while Rudy T went on to coach the Houston Rockets to two NBA Championships in the mid-90s.
* We seem to have found a replacement for Bowen in the 2009 NBA playoffs: Rajon Rondo. To the extent that for a while, his nickname was Rajon Wound-o.
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