[Enladalusange]

He's about the only NFLer who'd have any chance at all against the top 10% or so of hockey players.

Dude. Pretty much every DL would stack up favorably against a hockey player, through mass alone.

[nuncEtedben]

He's about the only NFLer who'd have any chance at all against the top 10% or so of hockey players.

Dude. Pretty much every DL would stack up favorably against a hockey player, through mass alone. Not on skates. I give Ray Ray credit on skates just because his ankles would be too scared of his fists to fail.

[PolPitasc]

The DLs are fat bastards who can barely sprint 10 yards before getting winded. They would get their asses handed to them. The biggest badasses on the field are linebackers and tight ends + some running backs

Nobody else on the field even rates.

[Tveabuti]

The DLs are fat bastards who can barely sprint 10 yards before getting winded.


Dude, a lot of DLs are ****ing stacked. DEs are clearly the biggest badasses on the field, along with MLBs.

They fistfight pretty regularly; its a rare occasion for most football players.




Yeah, no football players grew up in tough neighborhoods where they had to learn how to fight.

[Inconykic]

The DLs are fat bastards who can barely sprint 10 yards before getting winded.

Dude, a lot of DLs are ****ing stacked.

They fistfight pretty regularly; its a rare occasion for most football players.




Yeah, no football players grew up in tough neighborhoods where they had to learn how to fight. I guarantee you that the average Canadian fistfights more growing up than the average black kid in the US.

[xIuvyAuT]

Yeah, no football players grew up in tough neighborhoods where they had to learn how to fight.

Correct.

Why do you think all those *******s own guns and knives? 'cause they don't know how to fight.

All Canadians love and play a sport where fistfights are not only common, they are expected. We live in a frozen land cooped up with the same people for extended periods of time. We also have a harder time getting ahold of firearms -- especially compared to the football-playing demographic -- which means we resort to fists.

Even I have been involved in one fistfight. And I'm a white suburban computer geek.

[CindyLavender]

Not on skates.

Why the **** would the fight be on skates? We're talking about a normal fight here.
Indeed. I think we're missing the key point here that skating, no matter how you frame it, is totally gay.

[budumol]

So we start by deploring basketball players for resorting to violent confrontations, then argue over which players of which sport would fare better in a violent confrontation? Makes sense to me.

Anyway, I'll try defending basketball, though I don't especially care for any sport: it's only slightly slower-paced than hockey and you can actually tell what the hell's going on.

[Soresbox]

Drawing a gun and not even shooting = classic ***** "tough guy" celebrity nonsense

Punching the **** out of somebody while he punches the **** out of you = awesome

[rolex-buy]

I agree that it would be stupid. The only manly thing to do is for you and your opponent to mutually take off your own helmets and have at it.

[Pmeidstc]

I agree that it would be stupid. The only manly thing to do is for you and your opponent to mutually take off your own helmets and have at it.

Pointless hassle, they'd just have to put their helmets back on to resume play. There's not much sense in fighting with all that padding on anyway.

[Rabbahpuptiopp]

The only manly thing to do is for you and your opponent to mutually take off your own helmets and have at it.

That's an automatic fine/suspension. The NHL has a much more enlightened policy toward fighting. Precisely.

[Anteneprorid]

Pointless hassle, they'd just have to put their helmets back on to resume play. There's not much sense in fighting with all that padding on anyway.

Once the helmet's off there is.

[66paptroump]

Record for NHL fights in a career is 308 over 14 seasons

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_Williams

[pharmacologist30]

The fact is that they are not pushed by the requirements of their sport to be able to fight. Even pussies in the NHL have a couple of fights in their professional career and probably a few more in the junior leagues, college or high school. Enforcers can get into 10 or 20 fistfights against other professional athletes EVERY YEAR.


I remain unconvinced that one-armed hockey fights are superior preparation for a real fistfight than a rough upbringing in America and extra-curricular violence with your entourage in the football offseason.

[Seeseeskeva]

I love black people. They should play more hockey. Some of the best hockey players are black. They're wasting their talents shooting hoops.

The only black person I hate is you, Drake.

[WenPyclenoWex]

I admit that I have never been a pugilist, but if there's only one worthwhile spot to hit wouldn't it be a kind of boring fight? Sort of like Irish boxing, or rock-em sock-em robots. If you want to watch fights, watch boxing, or that white-trash MMA stuff.

The two are nothing the same. Don't even compare them. Boxing is an art. There are rules. That other is trash. Not particularly white trash, but trash.