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here's your shmoop du jour brought to

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you by rugby all the fun of tossing a ball around with all the injuries of [A rugby match]

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being crushed by an avalanche of bodies let's take a look at the following

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passage footballs watched by more than half the population in the United States

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many people think it's a worthwhile sport to enjoy [The question is written out]

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however experinece while isn't as competitive or exciting rugby players

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play the game without pad which makes the sport of rugby more exciting and

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competitive alright here's our question which sends best summarizes the passage

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you're on potential answers all right so we're looking for a sentence that sums

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up the entire passage that means if we find the sentence that captures part of [Sentence in a bubble]

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it but not the whole enchilada well then that's no bueno so let's check out [The bubble pops]

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option a sure football can be dangerous you're running the risk of the strongest [Player kicks a football, it bounces off a post and hits him in the face]

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fastest people you've ever seen flying into you as fast as they can but does [Another player kicks the ball and it hits him in the face again]

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that mean it shouldn't be played well no dekha driving can be dangerous but you [Two stock cars ramming each other]

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don't see everyone walking hopscotching or pogo sticking to work through yes and [People bouncing down the road on pogo sticks]

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more importantly this idea doesn't come up in the passage so no way is our [Someone running over the passage with a magnifying glass]

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answer what about C well sure the passage does mention the footballs

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watched by more than half the population in the u.s. strangely there's no mention [People in bar watching the football]

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of the other half the population scratching their heads and rolling their

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eyes at the football Watchers but this answer doesn't set summarize the passage [A guy getting beaten up for not liking football]

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so much like the Seahawks following the one-yard line interception the 2015

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Super Bowl it's done for how about D the author of this passage does seem to be

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really into rugby however they only compare rugby and football so it's a bit [Author gives a trophy to a rugby player]

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of a stretch to think the passages about rugby being the most exciting sport in

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the world who knows they might be really really into lawn bowling - so he is gone [Author cheering at lawn bowling]

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all right well that leaves us would be the main idea of the passage seems to be

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that rugby is better than football put in particular stress on how it's both [Kid with the ball gets piled on]

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more competitive and more exciting and if we would have summarized it we might

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take something like rugby is more competitive than exciting done football

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where we seen that for all look at air attains RB and we're done that ones who

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are definitely easier than getting out from under a pile of rugby players [Kid works his way out of the pile]

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