Football is like being on the battlefield. You have to take on the worst possible conditions and keep you mind constantly alert to react to anything. Rugby doesn't even compare to football. That's why you invented your own games like baseball, gridiron and basketball, because no one else plays them. It makes the Superbowl look like the half time warm up.
American troops kill more of their allies in friendly fire than they do the enemy.
Too many John Wayne movies. My uncle was in Korea and he said the Yanks wouldn't get out of their trucks to fight, they were retreating so fast. Why don't your pilots drop below 20000 feet and maybe they won't kill truck loads of refugees like they did in Yugoslavia. We don't have to rely on our neighbors to supply us with them. But then, that's a big problem with the British, always turning to someone for help or aid.