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Published online 15 April 1999 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news990415-2
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Football players not so hard
To the uninitiated, Australian Rules Football looks like a cross between rugby, wrestling and Armageddon. There is a ball, but you'd be forgiven for thinking its main function is to give thirty-six concrete-thighed men carte blanche to thunder around a pitch pounding each other to pulp.
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