Football (USA) vs Hockey
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Which do you consider the toughest sport?
Hockey hands down. If a player is permitted to cleanly hit another player through the glass that's great but for that player to get up and shake it off? Amazing.
What about Joe Thorton taking a stick in the face and losing teeth? He come right back out in like 8 minutes. Tough as nails these hockey players.
Hockey hands down. If a player is permitted to cleanly hit another player through the glass that's great but for that player to get up and shake it off? Amazing.
What about Joe Thorton taking a stick in the face and losing teeth? He come right back out in like 8 minutes. Tough as nails these hockey players.
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Both are physically demanding.
each player carries a weapon.
Are there injuries in every hockey game? There are in football. Usually somethin serious.
Hockey is the most physically demanding sport, hands down. It's not even debatable.
Hockey...you always see guy who get nailed by clean hits pushing and shoving.
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Get your leg twisted in an awkward position then have a 300 pound lineman fall on you, let me know if you up quickly. Football players play with injuries all the time...just look at the injury report teams release.
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Dallas Cowboys OLB Demarcus Ware is 6'4 265 lbs.
The Penguins' Sidney Crosby is 5'11 200 lbs.
Would you be willing to bet against Demarcus Ware knocking his fucking dick off?
Does hockey have anybody that could line up 20 yards across from Adrian Peterson (6'1 220 lbs) and do well in a head on collision 10 times? I'm asking because I don't know.
I'll go ahead and admit an NFL team would be embarrassing on ice. But I guarantee an NHL team on a football field would be uglier than that. Both sports are violent. I agree. NFL is just a more violent game because of the size and speed of the athletes, not to mention the defensive guys retardation levels. They just don't give a fuck.
Who's the toughest hockey player?
Hockey collisions happen at a much higher speed, has a rock hard rubber puck flying around at 100 mph and everyone has sticks.
Football has much bigger, stronger people with collisions on every single play.
I'd vote for hockey just because of the grind of playing maybe 100+ games a season (with preseason and playoffs), and multiple times a week. Either way, you gotta be tough to play either sport at a high level.
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“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”
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While I read your post and I can see your point on most of it, I can't overlook this error.
A big 300 pound man running versus a 250 hockey player coming down on you while skating his ass off isn't fast? I'd like to see anyone outrun a hockey player. To top it off hits you going that fast?
Toughest is depending on your definition... some of the fighters are strong as moose, but can't skate all that well... most of the big hitters are smaller 6'0-6'2ish 210 lb guys who can skate really well, and line people up. They probably comparable more to hard hitting defensive backs in football, then the big hulking linebackers. Then there are the 6'4 220 lb power forwards who can skate through a wall...
While the NFL is a more violent game, the NHL has the speed aspect... you can have two guys skating 20-30 mph towards each other for a collision... you've seen the damage that can happen to a car in a 25 mph collision, imagine being one of those guys.
Even looking at the top athletes from each sport... outside of linemen, football players are just built and big all over... hockey players usually aren't big in the upper body, but are cut, and have legs like tree-trunks... from the waist down, they are just as strong or stronger than any football player.
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I see what you're saying. But, how many of those hits are when the player is skating top speed, which I think I somewhere around 25-28 mph?
An average NFL RB runs about 20 mph. They can reach top speed in about 5 or 6 strides.
I'd be willing to bet that if you put a hockey player on a 10-15 yard long stretch of ice and let him skate straight into an NFL defensive lineman standing on grass, hockey player loses.
Conversely, let somebody like Ray Lewis or Earl Campbell run the same length on grass straight into an NHL guy, NFL wins again.
I'm not questioning the speed or toughness of hockey, I just don't believe it's more violent than NFL Football. Hockey is definitely not for sissies. That's why women aren't in either of those leagues....except for Tom Brady
1. Hockey has an 82 game regular season and two months worth of playoffs where the winning team has gone through FOUR intense 7-game series whereas a lot of times the Super Bowl winning team only has to play three games after a 16 game regular season.
2. Hockey is ALWAYS in motion. While demanding, the fact that football players start and stop on every play makes it less intense. Sure there are line changes in hockey, but players are usally out between 40-60 seconds a shift and the average NFL play is less than 5 seconds.
Id have to say
lacrosse
seriously, nothing hurts more than hitting or being hit hard in a football game especially if its cold out
hockey players have a lot more protection being checked hard into the boards is nothing compared to being hit after catching the ball or making the hit on a running back going full speed
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Most players don't wear facemasks when a puck is flying through the air half the game. Also they play 2-3 times a week to the NFL's 1 time a week. Not saying football isn't dangerous. I actually played football for most of my youth as opposed to hockey which I only played with friends (no team). But hockey to me is more dangerous and tougher than football.
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Georges Laraque is 6'4 255 or so...Derek Boogard is 6'8 260....they are both fighters that don't see a lot of ice....but I bet they'd make a mess of Adrian Peterson on any surface...
I disagree that the football field would result in the bigger massacre. The skills of football are way less specific...sure, they fine tune their hitting technique or whatever....but going up against an NHLer without being a GOOD skater would be suicide. When I was a kid, my hockey team had a CFL player come out to one of our practices to do some motivational speaking - he was probably 6'3 230 or so...he practised with us for fun...I was 13 yrs old, probably 5'6 and 120 lbs.....if I'd wanted to, I could have easily DESTROYED the guy....if you can't skate or at least properly brace yourself, you're a fucking sitting duck. Whereas the hockey players can still run and take a hit if need be in a football game...
I've nearly been KO'd in hockey by a mid-ice collision...the thing with hockey is that you dont get piled on after the hit...that's a LOT of weight on those twisted knees...
That said...football players have no sticks, no projectiles, no sharp metal blades to worry about... and way less endurance per game/season. Even in 'harmless', no-contact mens leagues, there are serious injuries...a teammate of mine broke his shoulder badly last week....I'm pickin hockey.
Obviously a Hockey player exerts more energy throughout a game, but football is very hard on the body. There's a reason football is only played once a week. The body needs more time to recover.
Lets pretend, you or I are forced to play either professional Hockey or Professional Football this weekend. The puck or football will be passed to us many times..
Which sport are you going to feel safer in.. Enough said.
Fall on your ass and silde??? check out this hit on Blackhawk Toews and see how much sliding he did!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFLbg-PnMeQ
and putting your neck in the path of a running back chugging along is way more dangerous
spinal cord injuries and concussions are rare in hockey, but common in football
Yes, bad things will happen in Hockey, but whatever you think man.. I'll take my chances with the puck than trying to run down field with a football in a NFL game.