Why do english people care so much that american football players wear padding and helmets?

A bloodbath? Yes and it's called rugby. As an American, I find it rather weak that they wear padding. Not to mention, it's a bore of a sport.

I know its needed - you have 200 - 350 pound men charging directly into each other. It would be a bloodbath without the padding. The tackles in rugby usually involve dragging someone down and there is not the direct hitting with shoulders down charging. Rugby is rough as hell without the padding and takes guts to play and take the pain. Rugby is more like skirmishing and infantry with air cover. Football is a direct armour assault against fortified positions - looking to exploit a breakthrough with the offensive tackle.

They're just jealous of Americans because all those folks from England have rotten teeth!

They arent concerned... it just makes them look like sissies compared to big tough rugby players. American football is no more rough than rugby which is probably a lot tougher and a real mans game.

They just don't understand how HUGE some American football players are, or the rules of the game either.

I think it's because of rugby, they don't wear all that padding. Not afraid of a bit of blood. By the by, my teeth look just fine, no fillings!!, don't want a radioactive smile like Tom Cruise- the freak!!

because english players are stupid and play rugby without pads

They where helmets and padding, because players hit harder and the collision is huge. Back and the day football players only wore leather helmets, but they were not big compared to guys now. Seriously, these guys back in the day and players now would be in the hospital because of the high impact nowadays. Rugby is tough sport, but the guys playing them would not last long without helmets or pads against NFL players. While rugby players are pretty big, they don't even compare to the measurable of NFL players. Ronnie Brown for Miami is 235 lbs and runs a 4.44 40. How would like that collision. Linebackers at 250 lbs are running high 4.5s. Julious Peppers at 278 or so runs that speed, and Jason Taylor, Shawn Merriman is really fast as well. Vernon Davis a TE in last years draft weighs about 270 lbs and he ran 4.38 40. Now that is rediculous. That is fast really fast for players half his size let alone his muscle mass. So you add all this raw muscle mass, raw power and strength with athletes who are zipping through like torpedos creates quite a collision with that velocity and size.

Yeah the hits are way bigger in football. See how many people get injured in football every year. That number would be tripled if we played without padding.