Mind you, they apparently need lots of first aid after a lot of the games. That's a little scary.
True. And you can usually spot rugby players by their broken nose or cauliflower ears. However, they don't get the brain damages that American Football players suffer from - apparently the brain damage is due to the helmets, which makes the impact much worse!

lateral passes aren't illegal, but no one employs them, simply because "that's not how we do things."
Huh.