Poll: Toughest Sport

[Hader]

A Zdeno Chara Slapshot renders a cup useless.

This is a known fact...

Too many guys have slapshots that gotta travel faster than a bullet man.

Seriously, shit hurts. -_-

 

[Cheery Lunatic]

I really think boxing is one of the toughest sports.

The point of the game is to literally knock your opponent out...

 

[The Shade]

Probably the Irish sport of hurling.

Followed closely by rugby.

Bunch of nancies playing hockey and football think they're tough? Try playing without your body armour... wusses.

I'd like to see you in the net and face a slapshot without wincing.

No problem. I am Canadian, after all.

 

[enzilewulf]

Lacrosse. Just from what I have seen this shit hurts like hell and if you get clocked with the ball your going down..hence why Goalies are crazy. Well I guess the same thing applies to Hockey as well.

 

[Polaris19]

Probably the Irish sport of hurling.

Followed closely by rugby.

Bunch of nancies playing hockey and football think they're tough? Try playing without your body armour... wusses.

Stand in front of a slapshot without a helmet.

You'll never leave home without one again...I guarantee it.

I don't subscribe to the belief that wearing protective equipment means your a wuss. All it means is you want to live to see another day. Who doesn't want that? Tough sports physically are tough sports physically. Rugby, Hurling, and Hockey, along with many others are all physically demanding, but don't write a sport off just because the players wear equipment.

 

[Hader]

Probably the Irish sport of hurling.

Followed closely by rugby.

Bunch of nancies playing hockey and football think they're tough? Try playing without your body armour... wusses.

I'd like to see you in the net and face a slapshot without wincing.

No problem. I am Canadian, after all.

I eagerly await your results then.

 

[DefunctTheory]

Hockey is the most dangerous, and soccor (Football, whatever) is one of the most physically demanding.

Seriously, they run around a hug field for an hour or more. In Football (American), they take breaks every play!

 

[SimuLord]

It's gotta be rugby. All the violence of American football or hockey, almost none of the padding.

Watching Carlos Spencer score a try with the All Blacks in his first Test match after missing six weeks to a broken jaw sustained during a Super 12 (now Super 14) match...get his jaw broken AGAIN...and not get substituted out until halftime when the team medic/trainer realized what had happened...

Yeah. Rugby for sure.

 

[Hader]

Lacrosse. Just from what I have seen this shit hurts like hell and if you get clocked with the ball your going down..hence why Goalies are crazy. Well I guess the same thing applies to Hockey as well.

Yeah those lacrosse balls hurt like hell too, but they don't have the speed that comes along with ice hockey. Plus Lacrosse players where the same padding hockey players do. So they don't have it as bad. Though any lacrosse player that can hurl that thing enough to hurt someone has one hell of an arm on them, that's for sure.

 

[ctaylor35]

and you can get hit without even having the puck.

That would be interference. The only way you can get hit without the puck is you are allowed to finish your checks within 2 seconds of a player passing and even then the contact is entirely dependent on puck possession. But I would agree hockey most definitely. I'm in my eleventh season myself. Ive also played football, snowboarded, skateboarded and done track and field. I can safely say hockey is the grittiest, quickest, sport that is taxing both physically and mentally. Anytime you see a player make a blind backhand pass is a prime example of the awareness developed to play a sport like hockey

 

[PunkyMcGee]

Stand in front of a slapshot without a helmet.

Bobby Orr never wore a helmet!

Spoiler

 

[emeraldrafael]

GO PENS!

Heres me hoping you were a fan BC (before Crosby). I hate fair-weather fans.

But yes, go Pens. Too bad the Caps beat them today. Its not like Ovechkin needs a bigger head.

I am. I was in it for Lemiuex at first (i'm sure I butchered that name). besides, my favorite player is Orpik. I was born near Pittsburgh, so I'm a Pittsburgh fan (mostly). I've been into hockey since... oh... since I was eight or so. And I'm 18 now.

And yeah, too bad abut that. Though OVi is havinga sucky season, proving that Ovi talkers need a helping of shut the hell up

 

[KEM10]

I really think boxing is one of the toughest sports.

The point of the game is to literally knock your opponent out...

Look up chess boxing. You have to knock the opponent out AND be mentally competent the entire time.

 

[enzilewulf]

Lacrosse. Just from what I have seen this shit hurts like hell and if you get clocked with the ball your going down..hence why Goalies are crazy. Well I guess the same thing applies to Hockey as well.

Yeah those lacrosse balls hurt like hell too, but they don't have the speed that comes along with ice hockey. Plus Lacrosse players where the same padding hockey players do. So they don't have it as bad. Though any lacrosse player that can hurl that thing enough to hurt someone has one hell of an arm on them, that's for sure.

Yeah, My Team mate got a ball in the back of his head and had a concussion.

 

[Astoria]

I reckon hockey. Not only do you require co ordination and balance you also have to be tough and sturdy. To those who think American football is a tough sport I disagree. Yes, you spend the whole game crashing into people but you are wearing a lot of protection and you're only on the field half the game. Compare that to Australian football. They are wearing only a thin guernsey and sometimes players will spend the whole game on the field , most spend a large majority of it onfield.

 

[emeraldrafael]

Snip

Yeah... well... Stuff happens when you're the captain and you score the majority of goals, someone's gotta stop you.

 

[Icarion (aka Stockholm)]

So, as an American (though really, a few of my more international friends have noticed it to), its getting rather tiring to see the argument over whether Rugby or (American) Football is tougher. So I figured I'd ask (hey, its the Super Bowl, I'm in a sporting mood), what the toughest Sport is.

Disclaimer, did not including things like boxing or mixed martial arts because the entire point of that is beating the hell out of the other guy.

I think its Hockey. Seriously, I do. You're skating around at break neck speeds, on a single, VERY thin blade (per foot), and you're wielding a stick. Players get concussions that put them out for entire season, you play more rapidly, and you can get hit without even having the puck. Men can get slammed in the face with a puck, have to have an entire facial reconstruction, and get torn open just through a bare knuckle hockey fight or with the stick.

To add a personal touch to it, I know I've been injured and have injured people. One story I can tell where both instances involved the same guy. I was ijured when our team was injured, and the defenseman on the other team got sick of it and just used his stick like a sword and just cleaved into my side. it cracked a rib, bruised three more and cut into me, needing me to have ten stitches. So after I healed and went back out the same thing happened, where my team was winning and the same kid tried to do the same thing. So instead I stopped him and drove my stick into his helmet, trying ot knock him back down with a concussion and accidentally caught him beneath his helmet and caused some brain damage.

Also, kinda like a side note, my Captcha said Hanson weasy. Just thought that was kinda funny.

We had a guy who played hockey for BU (Americas premiere Colledge Hockey program, they're the best hands down, BC always loses to them) talk to us at our school. He got to play like .2 seconds tehn got paralyzed from the neck down. So yeah, hockeys definetly teh most brutal/dangerous

 

[laststandman]

Hockey, along with being the best sport, is the toughest. You spend the whole game skating back and forth getting checked, getting hit with sticks, pucks, and possibly fighting.

Unless you're a goalie, then you have to be lightning fast.

GO DEVILS!

EDIT:

Its not like Ovechkin needs a bigger head.

Well it's not like Ovi did anything this game anyway.

 

[Gxas]

GO PENS!

Heres me hoping you were a fan BC (before Crosby). I hate fair-weather fans.

But yes, go Pens. Too bad the Caps beat them today. Its not like Ovechkin needs a bigger head.

I am. I was in it for Lemiuex at first (i'm sure I butchered that name). besides, my favorite player is Orpik. I was born near Pittsburgh, so I'm a Pittsburgh fan (mostly). I've been into hockey since... oh... since I was eight or so. And I'm 18 now.

And yeah, too bad abut that. Though OVi is havinga sucky season, proving that Ovi talkers need a helping of shut the hell up

Good. I got into the Pens around '97 or so I think it was. Jaromir Jagr was, and still is, my favorite player, I've just kept my Penguin pride. My parents hate it, because we're Cleveland fans. So they see gold and black and immediately think Steelers.

 

[Hader]

Snip

Yeah... well... Stuff happens when you're the captain and you score the majority of goals, someone's gotta stop you.

Or when you are the goalie and have had zero GA the whole game. I have had a few instances of guys attacking me to take me out. Not so easy when I am both a somewhat stronger guy and have twice the padding on though.

Though one time I had a real shit situation, a 2 man breakaway on me, the first guy gives a drop pass to the other and then proceeds to tackle me. Other guy shoots it into the now empty net. And they still call it a goal.

That was the first time I ever cussed out a ref, haha.