The hardest sport (in my opinon)

Football, its one of the toughest sports out there.  ONE of them.  Sure, there is definitely skill involved, and someone gets tackled into the ground nearly every play.  However, I believe the hardest sport is not football, but water polo (or rugby).  That's right, Water Polo.  You know, the sport nobody really cares about until the Olympics come around, that one.  Football, you play one step at a time, short thirty second bursts.  Water Polo, you go until someone scores, after which theres only about twenty seconds rest then back at it.  Nobody in there gets any rest.  Have you ever realized how in football they have those fancy replays all the time.  The time it takes to show the replay is their rest, in case you didn't notice, and it's plenty of time.  Not to mention that they have separate players for offense and defense.  Water Polo has players swimming back and forth across the pool, no rest.  Even if a foul is called, that just means a free pass and get back to work, plus during that time the clock is stopped, so that time just gets added to playing time.  Practice schedules are also brutal.  To play in high school means two to three hour afternoon practices, and morning practices three days a week for one to two hours.

And one final note, whatever the referee doesn't see is legal.  That means players can fight one another under the water as long as no one sees it, and believe me when I say that it happens often.  Sometimes people will start seeing blood in their toilet after a knee to the kidney.