The difference between soccer and rugby? This is AFL (Australian Rules Football) not Rugby....

This. Though the description gets it right. Funny enough I just watched a video about it yesterday.
*related=http://videosift.com/video/What-is-AFL-Aussie-Rules-Explained

EDIT: And to show the AFL isn't above such things themselves... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXLr2_tGSpo?t=1m34s

What is AFL? Aussie Rules Explained has been added as a related post - related requested by RFlagg.

Can we uh have a game that's somewhere in the middle? Like one where no one cares about a little tap, but I don't have to draw up a living will before I enter the field?

Rugby? C'mon. Change the title FFS. That's like us calling Grid Iron, Baseball.

Quite a funny juxtaposition.

LMFAHS

@NaMeCaF
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Fair enough. The title wasn't meant to be literal (you can see the tags and description are correct) but more of a tongue-in-cheek "difference between contact sports vs. non-contact sports." Plus I figured no one outside of Australia had heard of AFL (didn't see that other recent Sift).

I'm pretty sure everyone on the planet knows when you add "Australian" to something, it will usually involve pain, death, and/or extreme fear.

Australian Rules Football.
Australian (Sydney) Funnel Web Spider
Margot Robbie
Australian Eastern Brown Snake

Soccer can be painful, you know...

/buzzkill

If ya gotta go back to a film from 1981 to find a good injury, you're sorta making the point

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