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Botany

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3. Football either high school, college, or the pros has very big and strong people hitting each other and these ...

Reply to Sparkly (Original post)

Mon Sep 29, 2025, 10:37 PM

Monday

.. men live in the weight room or are running all the time to become quicker (first steps) or faster
in just running and when they hit each other “things happen.” You take a college linebacker who is
6’ 2” tall, 240 lbs, and can bench press 220 pounds @ least 10 times and he hits somebody and
just the physics of it is brutal.

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