Could 10 NFL players kill a large tiger in a zoo enclosure with no weapons?

1 big guy with a sword could kill 2 tigers

Aaron hernandez could take out the tiger himself.

Obviously ten men without weapons, no matter how big, could not kill a tiger. But I want to play. S0 which mixture of elite athletes from which sports could put up the best fight?

2 ultimate fighters, 2 sumo wrestlers, 3 winners of strong men competitions, 1 huge basketball center, and 2 linebackers

The ten men have to have a coordinated attack and be willing to readily give up their lives.

The start packed together very tightly with the sumo wrestlers and the linebacker and one strong man charging side by side (sumo wrestlers in the center of 5 man line) with the other five ready to pounce if the tiger loses balance.

The key would be for the men to stay very close together. They will have one shot if the tiger gets away from the first charge the men don't have a chance.

I could train myself to kill a tiger. I'd start out with a kitten, and them a small cat, and then a slightly larger cat. I'd just fight a bigger cat every day, working my way up from a Maine Coon to an ocelot to a puma to a cheetah and finally to a tiger. I might even just master fighting strays while wearing a weight vest first, before I head down to the zoo and wreck some bitchass tiger. I figure that I should be in shape to do it within 90 days.

The question should be with a wild tiger not a zoo animal that has lost some of the raw instinct that animals have. Even with a zoo animal the NFL guys could win probably 1 out of 10 times with about half of them incurring fatal injuries.

trollism wrote:

yogibear wrote:

I think the football players could win with the right strategy. Man's brain power is his biggest advantage.

But man's brain will also be it's biggest disadvantage too.

Once the other guys catch sight of someone with their throat being ripped out or start getting pelted with various body parts of their friends, there's no way they're doing anything resembling teamwork.

After the first dead human, the other 9 would be screaming and crying to have the cage opened.

yogibear wrote:

I think the football players could win with the right strategy. Man's brahttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD6vpheUoPEin power is his biggest advantage.

Yes it is the brain power of man. We have made tools, the spear, the bow, bronze, iron, and steel tools. But with out tools no way is a number of men, with out tools going to kill a tiger.

Then there is the Liger.

The only possible way a number of unarmed men could kill a 600 pound 10 foot long tiger.... twenty 350 pound sumo wrestlers sneak up on a sleeping tiger and fling themselves on the sleeping beast without waking him (unlikely) and smother him to death.

Even then, I doubt that this would work. I imagine that the tiger would wriggle and roll onto his back and begin clawing.

CMFL wrote:

10 NFL players = approximately 42 midgets?

Here's the answer to your question

http://www.ast.leeds.ac.uk/~jh/BBC_NEWS.htm

Is this actually true? I really can't believe 42 midgets would do this.

silly Lilly wrote:

CMFL wrote:

10 NFL players = approximately 42 midgets?

Here's the answer to your question

http://www.ast.leeds.ac.uk/~jh/BBC_NEWS.htm

Is this actually true? I really can't believe 42 midgets would do this.

this would work if you filled one of the midgets with gasoline and lit him up with a welding torch.

If an elephant lied on a tiger it would not be able to move. How much does an elephant weight? 3200 pounds of man lying on a 500 pound tiger. The tiger is very strong but he would not be able to move.

I have been leaning towards the Tiger annihilating all those involved. But if all 10 players converged on the tiger in concert and were willing to sacrifice themselves I think they may have a chance. 10 huge players all attacking the tiger at once. It might kill a couple right away but it would have 8 others jumping on top. All that weight would nullify the tiger's firepower.

old guy 67 wrote:

The only possible way a number of unarmed men could kill a 600 pound 10 foot long tiger.... twenty 350 pound sumo wrestlers sneak up on a sleeping tiger and fling themselves on the sleeping beast without waking him (unlikely) and smother him to death.

Even then, I doubt that this would work. I imagine that the tiger would wriggle and roll onto his back and begin clawing.

If you have 7000 pounds of Sumo guys on a tiger the tiger can't do squat. That is like 2 cars. The tiger can have all the explosiveness in the world but if 2 cars are on top it can't move an inch.

When Tarzan killed a tiger he jumped on its back, put a headlock on its neck and wrapped his legs around its torso, like a wrestler. Then he stabbed it with a knife a bunch of times.

Without the knife, it would have killed him, of course. Tigers have very thick necks and you can't choke them. Their skulls and bones are very thick and you cannot beat or kick them to death. Tarzan knew this and never attacked a big cat without his knife. And no, wise guy, he wasn't in Africa when he fought the tigers, he was in Southeast Asia fighting the Japanese.

If Tarzan can't do it, I guarantee 10 nfl players couldn't either. They could delay their inevitable death but the tiger would prevail in the end.

There is only one exception, if you have a forked stick, which isn't really a weapon, you can keep a tiger at bay. They get confused if there is a forked obstacle in the way of their attack, the principle behind circus tiger "taming." Works with Komodo dragons too.

Tarzan actually routinely killed adult male lions with a full nelson move and no knife. No NFL player is like Tarzan however.

I think we need some starting assumptions -- otherwise it's too easily one way or the other.

1) Pretend all 10 men and the tiger are ready and willing to die for the cause.

2) Let's say a mix of positions, some power, some speed, some agile.

3) Enclosure of half an acre sounds about right.

4) Let's say the team has worked together before and can all communicate.

Given this...it's hard to see the football team not winning. It would certainly mean casualties, but human beings are equipped with lethal weapons all the same. The tiger's greatest advantages are its bite, its claws, and its speed. The bite could kill you instantly, the claws could do a lot of damage, and the speed means that if the 500 pound -- 800 pounds max -- beast comes at you at full speed, it'd be like getting hit by a car.

So you need to get up close to it -- everyone simultaneously surrounding it -- to mitigate its velocity advantage, and then try to limit its ability to bite and claw while you weary it with kicks and bites and punches. You'd want 4-5 of the big guys pinning the tiger down, 3-4 attack its head, and maybe two watching to see where they can help -- not to get too vicious, but a tiger has weak spots like all the rest of us, and you could tear its tail off/break it with enough force, and then the tiger is significantly less balanced.

TL;DR -- if Arnold can kill the predator, ten RGIIIs could kill a tiger.

I read an account of a grizzly/tiger fight once. I'm going totally from memory - and it may have even have been Mark Twain. But the story was in Mexico, late 19th century, and staged at a bull ring. The grizzly killed the tiger in just moments without any obvious damage to himself. I have seen adult male tigers and grizzlies (in zoo's) and I am not surprised. A grizzly is a big animal and incredibly strong.

Mostly unrelated to this, but I remember a video from the 1950's where a couple of wildlife biologists were doing a study on grizzlies. It was in Yellowstone, they drugged the bear, and did what they do (blood sample maybe). Anyway, the bear came to earlier than they wanted so they ran to their 1955ish Suburban. The bear got on all fours and was obviously very groggy. But it 3/4 ran and 1/4 staggered at the broad side of the vehicle and hit it with its head. It nearly tipped the Suburban on its side. The collision was incredible.

I still think the only way the players win is by jumping on top of it and immobilizing it. If they are just punching and kicking it it will just pulverize it. they have to immobilize it by most jumping on top of it.

Yes tigers are overrated. I am thinking maybe just 3 really tough players could kill the tiger.