I think it depends on the caliber the league you played in. did you play football in a large division high school, or at the collegiate level? I coach football and the lower division schools don’t have a comparision to the athletes VS the Large division big schools. In hockey you can escape contact very easily, it is impossible to do so in football. Chins as just a measure of strength??? They are lighter? Lets talk about powercleans I’m sure football owns those records to. and athleticism, No Hockey player ever played dual sports, most football players also played BB, Track, Baseball, etc,.
hey thanks tapper and the rest, i just wanted to see what any of you think, i love it when you stress your points and tell me what you think, i just like to challenge that, all of you have good points, hockey and football are one of the most physical sports no doubt, but man boxing rugby and lacrosse make it look easy, oh and i forgot to mention skateboarding and motocross, they are also damn physical, but i just thought hockey was more then football, i couldn’t exactly write it, i can explain it toa person better, but what Z said sums it up for me. Thanks all.
Football is by far more demanding. It is estimated you can do a little drill to find out what pro football feels like. Run head on into your garage 30 times in a row at various angles. You don’t get the option of wearing pads. Have Fun!
I say football is the roughest. Ice and astroturf(cement) have about the same hardness but you get taken down more in football. Also the guys are a lot bigger in football (Gilbert Brown anybody??). I’d also say that the fitness levels are the same, but different. The football players are faster but not over long distances, hockey players have to go for at least an hour.
Tapper, you mske some valid points in favor of the NFL, but your point about athleticism favoring football players because they play more than one sport really can’t be used as a comparison. About 75% of the NHL is from Canada and European countries where all they do from a young age is play hockey. They Most don’t go to college, so there really is never a chance for them to play more than one sport on a high level.
Also, your point that NFL players can run faster than NHL players, well, I would hope so! Hockey players don’t train to run, they skate, which is nothing like running whatsoever, so that really isn’t a fair comparison.
look at the oldie days in hockey, that had to be the toughest sport period then, they had practically nothing for equipment, the goalies had no face masks, nobody wore helmets, yet they would still play rough as hell, now that is tough, i didn’t see football playing like that, you get cut, stitched back up, ready to go back out and get another ass kicking, just look at the commercial, if only i remember what it was for, it speaks the truth about hockey, the guy got cut badly, the trainer stitched him up while he was on the bench, he went back out and all you hear is a huge crash, they didn’t show it ofcourse, haha it was prolly for beer.
Let’s not forget hockey players play 3 games a week compared to 60 minutes of football on a Sunday.Hockey teams have a much harder travel schedule and deal with changing time zones more frequently.
I think football is more rougher, i mean hockey is for a bunch of bitches, try and play a real man’s game like football. Dont get me wrong hockey is a bad ass sport and i love to play but football is better
Football and hockey are PUSSY sports. Table tennis, now that’s a man’s game. I am a top level pingponger (that’s what we call ourselves) and we play on CEMENT floors. None of this baby astroturf / ice crap. Also, while football players run a 4.1 forty, and a hockey puck reaches 100 miles an hour, a ping pong ball is almost three hundred miles an hour and we DON’T WEAR PADDING. There are also no obstacles on a football field or hockey rink. We have a 400 pound wooden table to contend with. We practice hard too, if you ever have come home from a hard day’s practice with splinters in your arms and calluses on your palms from that racket, you know what I mean.
Let me tell you a little story about Bob Herzog, the famous 70’s champ. One day he was diving for a ball and he got tangled in the net!!! He needed three hundred stitches in his face because the Chinese player bashed him with the racket. Then he went home with blood dripping from his face and hang cleaned 575 pounds. So to all of you who think that table tennis isn’t the roughest sport, THINK AGAIN FOOLS.