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Up Next... Skypecasting
Davis Freeberg submitted linkage to a short story talking about Skypecasting Television. Essentially using Skype and Yahoo Messenger to rebroadcast video to the internet. While it isn't a PVR, it circumvents the regionally oriented programming that prevents the UK from watching our "Football" or us from getting Dr Who. It also raises yet another battlefront the content owners will need to contend with in the upcoming years.
I admit to know nothing about rugby except for the ugly shirts, however American football players outweigh and are significantly larger than rugby players generally. I believe they start a rugby match or play in a huddle all pressing up against one another. This being very differnet than having two player each weighing between 250 and 350 pounds charging one another with 40 to 50 pounds of additional gear on. Two masses that size colliding at 10, 20 , or 30 miles an hour is a bit different then a couple of blokes with long sleeve shirts rubbing up against one another. Consider that in American football there have been players paralyzed for life with the girly man protective gear on no less.
No sir, American Football as anyone knows who has played it, either on the playground or in an organized game is defintely not for girly men. In fact I sould submit if we stripped the American Football players of their girly man outfits and dressed them in the ugly long sleeve shirts of the more masculine rugby folk and then turn them loose on one another you would need allot of ambulances and doctors for the more masculine rugby folk. The contest I'm afraid would end rather quickly and badly for the far superior and more masculine rugby folk.