[feroiodpiop]

Yup, and all without the use of your front teeth!

The fact that hockey players put far more effort and heart into the play, sacrificing their bodies regularly to win a game, is just another reason why it is by far a superior sport to football.

[sleepergun]

Those breaks that you seem to think detract from the cerebral-ness actually enhance it because it means that plays can be of increasingly greater complexity because of the 45 second break. Hockey is like basketball. There's plays but the real-time nature of the sport limits the complexity of the plays.

The fact that you've got so much time you can do more "complex" things like run in retarded patterns does not make it more cerebral.

The fact that the decisions need to be made faster in a dynamic situation -- not static -- makes hockey more cerebral.

How the **** can you call football cerebral when 90% of the players on the field probably have an IQ in the 60s?

[dittygari]

Football is boring and dumb. Fact. However Hockey, remarkably, is worse for your body than football.

[dXI9XFOA]

How the **** can you call football cerebral when 90% of the players on the field probably have an IQ in the 60s?

You realize NFL players take an IQ test before the draft right? It's called a Wonderlic score. The average NFL QB has an IQ of 108. Not geniuses... but still higher than the population average. Offensive tackles average 112.

[asharbiq]

Hockey players are moving far faster? My bad... you weren't snorting coke. You were smoking crack rocks.

One, they're on a ****ing friction-less surface... but anyway, what would you think is average speed for a hockey player? I'm googling that the record is around the rink in 13.56 seconds which if the rink if 550ft around, assuming a constant rate on the ice, means moving the distance of a football field in 7.4 seconds.

Now, this guy was the fastest ever apparently so let's say the typical hockey player can cover 100 yards in 9 seconds... Does that sound reasonable, Asher?

Yes, that's going to be faster than an NFL player but not by as much as you seem to think. NFL WR's, DB's, and RB's can typically run 100 yards in 10 seconds.

[Gerribase]

Hockey players are moving far faster? My bad... you weren't snorting coke. You were smoking crack rocks.

One, they're on a ****ing friction-less surface... but anyway, what would you think is average speed for a hockey player? I'm googling that the record is around the rink in 13.56 seconds which if the rink if 550ft around, assuming a constant rate on the ice, means moving the distance of a football field in 7.4 seconds.

Why the **** would you assume a constant rate on the ice?? Those times include 4 turns. They SIGNIFICANTLY slow down the speed.

You clearly know nothing about sports if you think NFL players move faster than NHL players on ice.

[gamecasta]

Jack Youngblood played in the NFC championship, Super Bowl XIV, AND the god damn Pro Bowl all with a ****ing broken leg!

[Heliosprime]

So what? I couldn't even name all of the hockey players who have played many games on broken legs, arms, wrists, hands, jaws, etc. It's very common.

I can't name how many players play with broken arms, wrists, hands, jaws, etc. in the NFL. It's very common. Playing with broken ribs is absurdly common.

Broken legs are trickier because you ****ing need your legs in football more than you do in hockey. There's no footfall impact in hockey.

[NKUDirectory]

I'm more convinced than ever you don't know anything about sports.

Are you stomping the ground when you're skating around on ice? Is this impact?

[glopomcyte]

Byron Leftwich playing a college game with a broken leg... the only reason why he was carried down on that play was because they were trying to muster a comeback and were in a no huddle offense and there was, as you can see, a big play so rather than have Leftwich hobble down field and take precious time off the clock, the lineman carried him.

That is only notable because of the scene of teamwork and camaraderie represented by the linemen carrying their QB. Many QB's have played with similar injuries (McNabb played with a broken ankle a few seasons ago).

[Immarsecice]

Chris Simms played an entire game with a ruptured spleen.

[mr.videomen]

****, even the goalies didn't start wearing masks til the 1970s. Players didn't start wearing helmets til the league forced them, for liability reasons.

There's no question hockey players are the most badass.

[chuecaloversvv]

You act like football players didn't used to just wear this for decades... the plastic helmet was mandated by the NFL and many players at the time hated it.