On a trip to Dublin, President Joe Biden regaled Irish lawmakers with his fondness for rugby. But is it really a safer sport than American football, as Biden told them? Most of the academic evidence suggests he’s wrong.
that he keeps an autographed rugby ball used in a 2021 game in which Ireland’s team defeated New Zealand’s fabled All Blacks. He said it was given to him by"one of Ireland’s greatest rugby stars, Rob Kearney," during a St. Patrick’s Day visit in 2022.
"I’d rather have my children playing rugby now, for health reasons, than I would have them playing football," Biden said."Fewer people get hurt playing rugby. And you have no equipment. You have 280-pound guys like we do, and you just don’t hit each other in the head very often." "While the risk of injury in collision sports is substantial, rugby tends to have more injuries overall and more concussions than American football," said Thomas Buckley, associate professor in the department of kinesiology and applied physiology at the University of Delaware. In addition, he said,"players in both sports tend to have higher rates of neurodegenerative diseases such as mild cognitive impairment and dementia.
For instance, some papers we found used overall injury rates, while others looked exclusively at concussions. Some studies looked at emergency room admissions while others compared longer-term health conditions. Some looked at school-age players while others studied professionals. And not all studies equalized their research to account for practice time and time spent off the field during games, which can alter the comparison of the two sports.
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