Going to be afk for a while....

[Benny]

which is scientifically proven to be 632% more manly than football), I can totally sympathise.

Let me tell you a little story about an event that happened 14 years ago. I was in Botswana on an international aid charity football event. Very much like the football event in Bedknobs and Broomsticks, but the participants were late. The Lion King was there but the hippo, elephant and rhino were all late. Anyway, to cut a long story short we had too many on our side so I agreed to referee (see picture below).
 
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I tossed the coin and as I went to pick it up, Rhino, Elephant and Hippo all arrived and in the furore all 3 stamped on my hand. I heard something crack and became a little worried. When the dust settled, I lifted my arm and shook off the dirt. It turns out that the earth underneath had cracked creating what is now known as a tectonic plate*.

Suffice to say us footballers are really manly and can crack the earth and run off broken spines, where as rugby players look like this.


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*That's not to be confused with a Tutonic plate which is essentially a plate full of cold bacon fat and lard that is eaten by northerners on a daily basis.

[Tutonic]

where as rugby players look like this

Sigh. Stade Francais have an awful lot to answer for :/

I'll attempt to settle this argument using the example of Wayne 'Buck' Shelford. From Wikipedia:

Shelford made his Test debut for the All Blacks later that year against France in a 19â€"7 victory in Toulouse, and then was a notable victim of the infamous "Battle of Nantes" in the second Test. Roughly 20 minutes into the match, he was caught at the bottom of a rather aggressive ruck, and an errant French boot found its way into Shelford's groin, somehow ripping his scrotum and leaving one testicle hanging free. He also lost four teeth in the process. Incredibly, after discovering the injury to his scrotum, he calmly asked the physio to stitch up the tear and returned to the field before a blow to his head left him concussed. He was substituted and watched the remainder of the game from the grandstand where he witnessed the All Blacks lose 16â€"3. To this day Shelford has no memory of the game.

Manly.

[Benny]

Sigh. Stade Francais have an awful lot to answer for :/
 I'll attempt to settle this argument using the example of Wayne 'Buck' Shelford.
Manly.

Manly? I call that stupid.

This is manly.  Boom. Case closed.

[Tutonic]

Yea, I can't actually argue with that - Boris has a mean chop-tackle.

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[Sparko]

i actually did it 20 mins into the game, but ended up playing the full 90 min as i didnt realise i had broken them, thats as manly as i will ever get as that is border line stupid....

[Snokio]

found a clip from watching Boris which amused me:

*warning, does have one bad injury*
[video=youtube;sDPudt0ykJc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=sDPudt0ykJc&NR=1[/video]

[Tutonic]

The Sky Sports presenter getting tonked on the back of the head had beer coming out my nose

[DuVeL]

Loved the icehockey goal on the back of the guards head.

[TeaLeaf]

The Sky Sports presenter getting tonked on the back of the head had beer coming out my nose

It had something come out of her nose too!