Are you Canadian? 
Is this really necessary? The last time two or more sports and their fans had a pissing contest on this board the result was fairly disastrous, with a lot of ignorant stuff being said. Like in your post, you repeatedly make the point that hockey sees more action than football. More games, more playoffs, less recovery time. Dont you think that the coaches and trainers of each sport are both highly educated and both accurately assess the players need for recovery. Have you read about the regimen that football players go through each week just so they they are in good health for the next game? Honestly, football has less games because the game play leaves their bodies in a state which requires more recovery time than a hockey game, it would not be possible to play football games night after night like hockey players do. Your argument really has no steam and is just going to piss a lot of people off. Im not saying one sport is tougher than the other. Cause everyone knows that the sport they play is “actually” the toughtest sport of all “for real”. This sport stuff is just a bunch of bullshit, and your points are so weak and unconvincing that I think you were just posting for the sake of stirring up a bunch of bullshit, and not because you believed what you were actually saying. If thats the case, the I guess you dont need to take me too seriuosly either.
-Jason
bleh, ice hockey tame as fuck
go watch any game of rugby (union or league) and then tell me what you think
Well I vote for football, because you can play on the beach year around. Also it is to warm to have any ice ponds around here either. Also their are no ice rinks on Kauai either. You guys can have hockey, I’ll go play some beach football when it 80 deg and sunny during the middle of January.
Karma can i marry you. I also have the perfect unit you like too…so Please! My plan is to have a set of twin boys so they can practice hockey against each other (one will be a goalie the other a forward). Anyway, you are absolutely right, hockey is the best sport there is in terms of the athletes it has and the action it produces. Skillwise, there is no comparison, and it is more physical than football without a doubt (Hello, Boards, you are getting smacked a solid surface at a much faster speed than you are in football).
Yes but in football your also getting hit on a solid surface and by much bigger men and to top that off and he’s the kicker…you don’t slide when you hit turf like when you hit ice. Football is waaaay more dangerous.
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College football rules! Hockey is more of a geographical sport. Depending on where you live, it’s a big deal (usually up north and in colder climates). I’ve watched some here and there, and my dad and uncles played it when they were younger. But give me a good college football game anyday over hockey. I just find it more exciting to watch. The only time I like watching hockey is seeing the highlights on ESPN when someone gets into a fight.
"Football is played either on grass (you know, that soft fluffy stuff you wiggle your toes in and pick buttercups from)"
Yeah it's also "soft" (its not very soft in Green Bay, Chicago, etc. during the winter)so you can plant your feet and deliver a much more powerfui hit, vice versa if your feet are set, and get hit, the potential for injury is much greater (remember Theisman).
I would rather take a blind hit, on ice from a pro, allstar hockey goon, than take a hit from am allstate highschool linebacker.
I am gona have to vote for football. Like many people have already said, they play once a week because thats the amount of time needed to recover and prepare for next weeks game. Last year when i was playing high school football, playing both ways and special teams, i would wake up sunday morning and not be able to move, like i went through a “war.” Any body here ever play lacrosse?? Any body wanna give that some T-Respect?? I played on long island in high school, and now play in college, but i gotta say we played 2 games a week in high school and dont get me wrong its a crazy sport, but NOTHING like wheni used to wake up after football games. Just my 2 cents, Deuce
I think you’re delusional if you’ve managed to convince yourself that hockey has more “rivalries” than football. The NHL brass is absolutely clueless as to how to build a rivalry (they have only one REAL rivalry: detroit vs colorado). They should learn from MLB and set up a schedule in which two teams play each other several times over several days. First, this would greatly reduce the amount of time players spend traveling. Second, such a format is similar to the playoffs, which is essentially the only aspect the nhl really markets. The current 80 game hodgepodge does nothing to build rivalries. On a side note, trading almost never happens in football, whereas in hockey, it’s much more common and expected. karma said: “In hockey, most of the guys are in near constant danger of being truly ‘hit’ as anyone remotely near the puck is fair game (legally that is, a lot of fun stuff happens behind the play too).” Even as a hockey player, I can’t back you up on this one. Nevertheless, hockey is the only sport that matters. Go Pens!
well said…I enjoy footbal, but I have argued with many people that they simply don’t play enough games, using hockey as my example. I like baseball best of all though. Hoping the Braves don’t choke this post season as has often happened.
Actually there USED to be alot of rivalry in the NHL, but since Gary Bettman took over as Commisioner in the early 90s the game has gone to shit.
Mr Bettman was hired to make the game acceptable in the states and has sacrified quality in the process. Rules, traditions, names were all modified. Expansion also watered down the game. Other disgraces include the glowing puck for americans who ‘cant follow’ the puck?!?!?! WTF. He even wanted to get rid of the 3 period time frame and replace it with quarters so NHL & NBA fans could identify with it. Essentially he just wanted to get rid of everything that makes hockey a unique sport.
If you think Col/Det is a rivalry I have to assume you werent pre-90s hockey fan.
It thoroughly disgusts me. Imagine if the NFL was COMPLETELY revamped to resemble soccer or cricket just to appeal to europeans for the sake of money!
Wheew Boy! Who’da thunk all y’all would be so passionate about the subject? Wow, don’t have time to address everything but I have to agree with Paul that FIGHTING is definitely one of the greatest things about hockey. Funny, I don’t dig boxing but I LOVE fighting in hockey. Maybe because in boxing, you know you’re going to fight some guy for X amount of money but in hockey, you just get so passionate about the game that your passion spills over into violence for whomever gets in your way. Dunno. Yeah, Happy Gilmore is my MAN!! …Go to your happy place… And in a way, hockey is like that. Afterall, look at Clint Marlachuk. Dude got his jugular split open by a skate. The amazing thing is that less than 2 WEEKS later, after almost bleeding to death from a severed jugular, he was back on the ice competing. What a fucking stud!
And D Rock, don’t you know Golf and Baseball aren’t real sports - try Curling and Mahjong. =) Actually, I think lacrosse, rugby, Aussie football are all pretty damn tough. If hurling or sumo is anything like those, then hell yeah I’d dig it!
But if we’re all looking for real sports, we need look no further as J has the answer in basketball. (Good God, pleeaase don?t get me started on basketball…ooh…oooooh…somebody stop me [a`la Jim Carey in “The Mask”]) Afterall, J played it in school. And no hockey player would dare touch him. Just ask him, he’ll tell you all about it. Um, maybe it was that diamond in his gold tooth that blinded them or the gang colors and signs J and his homies were throwin’ down. Yeah, I guess hockey players would go out of their way to avoid J because he played basketball and was the “real” stud. Ever think it was to avoid slipping on the hair grease that rolled down his back from under the doo-rag or that snif snif he was Slider, and stunk? Nah, that couldn’t be it. It was respect for the game of basketball, that or it was the noise that 5 pounds of gold chains made when clanking together. (Sorry, had to be done)
ThetaChi Guy brought up the great point that I didn’t take into consideration all the things that make football football…well, hell yeah. I wanted to finish the post sometime this year! But here’s a few more comparisons I’ve noticed…
Football gives you the option to pie out. A puss can step out of bounds if the damn candy-ass doesn’t want to get hit and mess his manicure. Then he just skips lightly back to the huddle and gets the obligatory pat on the ass for a job well done. A QB can toss the ball away if he feels too much pressure (kinda like J’s prom date) as long as he is able to mince outside the tackles. Oh yeah, time outs - how about 3 per half and 6 per game?!
As for hockey, you can’t pie out. There is no ‘out of bounds’ to scamper behind if you want to avoid a hit. Your options are to eat glass, ice or take the hit like a man. PERIOD. And I know some of you QB lovers will bring up goalies pouncing on a puck as being similar to a QB throwing the ball way - do you really want to go there? How many times have you seen a QB throw a ball away and then grab a Safety, drag him out to the 50-yard line and pummel him? Um, never. But that’s what Patrick Roy has done on more than one occasion. He’s also made a hobby of calling out every Red Wing goalie and dropping the gloves (woulda happened with Hasek but the dude can’t even skate over his own equipment and fell flat on his ass). And time-outs? Try one per game.
Football players are matched up with guys that are roughly the same size. You know, 300lb fatties getting touchy feely with other 300lb fatties and backs pulling other backs down and all. The only time there’s a real difference in size is when some fat-ass lineman’s hunger cravings cause him to visualize the puff quarterback as a piece of bacon and he beds the dude. Oh wait, that’s “sacks” him. Bed…sack…same diff, you hop in both. And if one of these pies does happen to get handed his lunch there’s usually a penalty called on it - like he’s too dainty to get messed with.
Hockey players are not matched up to other players but to the puck, so you get some wiry forward (5’5", 175lbs) knocking around with some goon (6’6", 245lbs) and they all gotta hold their own.
Oh, but we should all be PC and not “believe” in anything as opinionated as a predilection for certain sports. It’s better not to “believe” that any one thing is any tougher than any other thing because, after all, everyone always performs ‘AT THEIR BEST during any type of competition’. Brian Griese may have the brilliant, strategic mind of a first-rate QB but he’s got pansy-ass cryin’ down to a science. And I’m sure Cryin’ Ryan Leaf always performed at his best. How about Eddie Kennison, or Marcus Nash? Were they performing at their best? How about Ray Carruthe…or Ted Johnson…or Todd “Marijuanavich” who, if he wasn’t baked all the time ‘coulda been a contendah’. Yeah, they all performed their best. And we all know Dion “Mr. Prime Time” Sanders and Keshawn “Give me the damn ball” Johnson and weren’t cry babies. Sure, they were hella good atheletes but they both gave manliness a new (and sad) meaning. Hhmmm. Yeah. Seems ignorance never settled a question? Did being PC ever settle a question? Dunno. That’s not my forte, I’ll refer that to whomever’s it is.
And hey, why can’t we all just get along? Why get into a pissing contest over what sport is the best? 'Cause you know, after all, lots of ignorant things get said, and some arguments have no steam and piss a lot of people off and their then iddo feelin’s get all hurt. Maybe this is all just a bunch of bullshit and I’m just posting for the sake of stirring up a bunch of bullshit…WOOOHOOO…GIVE JASON THE BOOBY PRIZE!!! At least he, Char-dawg and KC get it! Hey KC, do you think I?m funny? What?! How am I funny?! Funny like a clown?! Funny for your amusement?! What the fuck is so funny?! This is all for fun and games! Good grief, guys. Learn how to take a joke.
I got into a fun, friendly lil’ debate with a guy the other day on this topic and he got so damn heated over it - he lost all sense of propriety. Kinda like some of you. 
Seems no one can accept “their sport” getting a good-natured dogging even if they know it’s true, and they can’t give a good natured dogging in return. Geesh! Maybe we should all go back to discussing sex or something fun like that. Oh wait. Only those of us that aren’t getting enough good sex like talking about it and those of you that do get all the hot, passionate sex you can handle don’t need to discuss it or read about it. Just seems that if y’all were getting enough great sex ya wouldn’t be so damn uptight! And for the record…I think the NFL and the NHL are both awesome sports. Sure, I like each one for different reasons and there are pies in each league and hero’s in each league (well, maybe I like the NHL just a wee bit more). Hell, I wouldn’t spend $7,300 to have season tickets to both the Bronco’s (true blue, South Stand, Raider-hater) and Avalanche (Red Wings SUCK) if I didn’t! I do however, have a sense of humor about my teams and my players and can still call a pie-hole a pie-hole even if he’s on one of my teams.
So, in conclusion, have a little o’ fun…stand by your sport and your team…learn to take a good natured ribbing…‘cause after all, I ain’t mad at ya, I ain’t got nothin’ but love for y’all.
If you would rather take a blind hit in hockey by a pro than be hit by an allstate football linbacker then you have obviously never played hockey before.
And molsonman you’ve obviously never played football. Karma: Wrong about not being able to duck hits in hockey. It’s very easy. Lots of guys have made careers out of not getting hit and avoiding contact. Think the " great one". I don’t blame him, he’s a tiny guy. I would avoid hits if I was him too. I do agree with you that hockey players are the best bunch of guys. I would rather hang out with NHL players than most other athletes. Most play for the love of the game and few think of themselves as big stars. I know and have know a number of NHL players over the years and most were just regular guys. Like I said, I love hockey, but it just doesn’t compare to the physical punishment of football. Not even close. Good topic, glad you brought it up.
i like football more then hockey simply becuase you don’t need to have skates to play.i like playing football,i don’t play hockey becasue i don’t have skates,and it is more of a hassle to play hockey.I also like football becuase i like running and you get to run.I alo thinks it’s more fun when you get to use your hands as opposed to hitting a puck with a stick the whole game.
Karma, I liked how you avoided every rock solid point that every person that supported football had to say and just went with what you wanted to hear. One of the guys even mentioned that he’s played hockey AND football his entire life and that football was a much tougher sport. Hockey players have balls, I’ll give them that, but football is, and always will be the REAL T-Man sport.
I think everyone missed the point of Karma’s post. I don’t think she gives a hoot about hockey or football. Her intent was to stir it up and sit back and watch the post’s fly. A job well done I say!
is there still hockey??? I know that nobody goes to see it in person and the rateings are pathetic. hockey IS soccer on ice, though even soccer probably has more fans! hockey is dead so who cares?