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All football pads add are more mass and weight to the player.
American football hits harder then rugby. Get over it.
So they don't offer any protection? enabling players to take hits without feeling them?
I've played Rugby league, union, American football and real football. any trust me American football is on the same level *** Football in terms of pain from recieving a tackle, it hurts if you get hit in the wrong place but not to anything like the same level as a rugby hit.
In fact the only time i ever really felt a American football hit was when someone used a helmet on a non padded area and i would still take that over a Spear tackle off a Back row forward.
when you consider Rugby league in particular, as a forward you are generally running full tilt into 2-3 people equal size and weight with nothing to stop a hit, you expect to get that 200+ times a game at least, a Prop would expect to take 30-40 drives a game.
In American football it is extremely rare to have a unrestricted front on hit on a player, usually tackles are made by players breaking off a blocker or from the side while chasing, runinng backs carry the ball maybe 20 times and are forcefully tackled maybe once per game? the rest of the time it's a scrummige line pile up.
Wide reciever's might touch the ball 3-4 times per game and almost never get big tackles on them, tothe point it's a game highlight if one does.
The only player who gets it in the neck is the Quaterback but when you have linemen making 8 sacks a year making the Probowl it's hardly common is it.
What you forget is that many Brits watch 16-20 games of American football a season and highlights of all the other games, while an American might watch 1 game of Rugby in a lifetime, making us far more able to judge the qualities of each.
