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Re:Chess boxing by crottypeter on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @05:11AM (#17080983)
> This is cute, but with what we now know about CTE, I can't help but find boxing, American football (handegg), etc disgusting. FTFY

Seriously the rest of the world calls 'Soccer': 'football'

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Re:Chess boxing by humanrebar on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @06:27AM (#17081277)
"Unqualified, the word football is understood to refer to whichever form of football is the most popular in the regional context in which the word appears."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football

...though association football does not have a concussion problem the way American football does. I'm not aware whether Australian or rugby football have concussion issues as well.

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Re:Chess boxing by Retric on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @07:47AM (#17081617)
Soccer does have brain trauma issues, from people bouncing the ball off their head. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2016/1...
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Re:Chess boxing by s3m4j on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @09:11AM (#17082073)
HN isn't "regional" though.
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