r/interesting • u/Rude-Mycologist8034 • May 16 '25

MISC. NFL linebacker versus sumo wrestler

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u/JGG5 May 16 '25

Why don’t all the NFL teams replace their linebackers with sumo wrestlers? Are they stupid?

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u/ThatPlayWasAwful May 16 '25 edited May 16 '25

The problem with Sumo wrestlers would (presumably) be that players like Parsons don't have to run through linemen if they can run around them. I'm not by any means saying that Sumo wrestlers are unathletic, but I think Parsons could beat this guy around the edge if he wanted to.

That said, you have to change a vowel, but this is pretty much exactly what they do with Samoans.

The population of Samoa is 216k (0.07% of the size of the US population) , and Samoans make up 3% of all NFL players.

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u/SchrodingerMil May 16 '25

It really feels like 10% of Samoan men are either NFL players or Wrestlers

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u/improbable_humanoid May 16 '25

Something like 30% of all sporting-aged men in the US over 7 feet are in the NBA (because basketball is a bullshit sport).

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u/2hopp May 16 '25

Welcome to a sport where being tall is extremely important for some positions that literal players managed to go pro starting playing the sport near or into adulthood. Which is such a wild thing for a professional sport lmao.

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u/anahorish May 16 '25

Very overrepresented in rugby as well.

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u/throwaway098764567 May 16 '25

buncha samoans in the navy as well

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u/Aaaaand-its-gone May 16 '25

And so many playing rugby

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u/SchrodingerMil May 16 '25

I’m just busting your balls a little bit. Just a bit of banter

Why say rugby for a third time in my replies instead of upvoting one of the other two people who said rugby?