The coach is constantly firing up Marlboros. Dawkins speaks with an aristocratic English accent. The game is much faster and the hitting is harder than I thought. It's a sport of bursts. The players substitute on the fly, with no timeouts, like hockey.
Players stay on the field for about two minutes before coming out for a rest.
They kick the ball incredibly hard. Shots bang off the Plexiglas sideboards with the sound of a gun blast. One shot hit me in the shoulder. I saw it coming, but it was so fast I couldn't move out of the way. That's going to leave a mark.