Rugby is a brutal sport as it is.
These guys beat the crap out of each other all game long. They don't wear pads. They take full contact to a whole new level.
South African athlete Ernst Joubert plays rugby for Saracens, a professional team based in St Albans, England. From the looks of the picture below from the BBC's Dan Roan, someone mistook Joubert's face for the ball during his team's 27-16 win over Ulster in the Heineken Cup last weekend in Twickenham, England...