Soccer Fronts Up

Now and then, there is a fair bit of teasing about the comparative physicality of the rugby codes and their distant cousin known as football/futbol/soccer/etc., but it looks like some airline representatives from the world's most popular team sport stepped up on a recent airline flight.

Armchair Playmaker figures no one on that flight was likely to question the toughness of the New England Revolution players. Then again, a little bit of good-humored joking across football codes, such as the extremely parsimonious example below, is good fun so long as it's only in jest: