Popular Culture
Wheelchair rugby was featured in the Oscar-nominated 2005 documentary Murderball.
The character Jason Street in the NBC television show Friday Night Lights, having been paralyzed in a game of American football in the pilot, tries out for the United States quad rugby team in a later episode.
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