[Newsbot]

Title: Footballers wear bubbles in game which actually encourages contact
Category: Sports
Posted By: Scape
Date: 2012-01-25 20:17:27

[Benn]

This is a joke article right? Please tell me it is? I mean soccer players can make contact without bubbles, they just have to stop being sissies.

[raydan]

I can see it now... a bunch of bubble-wrap hockey players going at it.

[QBall]

raydan raydan:

I can see it now... a bunch of bubble-wrap hockey players going at it.

That would be awesome! Build up enough speed and a good bounce from one player on another can send one guy sliding to the other side of the arena and out the door.
As for the the article I think it would be fun to try (I imagine some kids would love this), but obviously it can't be taken as a serious event. I have to wonder if the possibility of concussion still exists even in those bubbles. Nothing really keeping your head from bouncing around the inside. Plus I imagine it gets pretty warm in those bubbles.

[Scape]

Why couldn't it? Encouraging contact would make for more conflict and that is really what spectator sport is all about anyway.

[OnTheIce]

Yea, but more contact and the games will take 7 hours due to guys crying like babies when someone touches them.