We begin the home stretch of this series with a look at the very deliberate creation of modern Gaelic football, which has managed to escape our attention thus far...then we move on to an era of American football so violent that the President gets involved. No, way more "violent" than how you'd mean it today—no, more "violent" than actual combat sports. It's so, so, so much more violent than that. And more fatal.

In Part 7, you'll learn: the physiognomic differences between Irish and English legs, the proper sporting way to go about fighting a spectator, and which of Napoleon's marshals would've made the best offensive coordinator for American football.

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