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Hockey players are amazingly tough....

samspopsamspop Posts: 1,993 ✭✭✭
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Story on espn.com. Made my mouth hurt just reading it.

Ouch!
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  • MULLINS5MULLINS5 Posts: 4,517 ✭✭✭
    a lot of people don't realize just how tough hockey players are, much much much more than football players.
  • GarabaldiGarabaldi Posts: 2,004 ✭✭✭
    Hockey players have a very high tolerance for pain, but they are not much much much more than football players.
  • MULLINS5MULLINS5 Posts: 4,517 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Hockey players have a very high tolerance for pain, but they are not much much much more than football players. >>



    I think having a high tolerance for pain makes you pretty tough....
  • hhmag70hhmag70 Posts: 2,107
    Those wuss football players that play with broken bones!
  • SOMSOM Posts: 1,555 ✭✭✭
    I know one thing:

    If I walk into four strange bars, and one has baseball players sitting at the bar, one has basketball players, one has football players, and one has hockey players, I sure as hell know which one I am high-tailing it out of.

    (And I ain't even talking about bars in Canada!)
  • MULLINS5MULLINS5 Posts: 4,517 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Those wuss football players that play with broken bones! >>



    Those wuss hockey players that play with broken bones, 80+ regular season games, 7 game playoff series, stop clock, while on skates getting whacked with lumbar, hit with bodies coming at full speed, thrown into boards, and hit with frozen pucks like bricks at speeds up to 100 mph.

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  • GarabaldiGarabaldi Posts: 2,004 ✭✭✭
    I am not taking anything away from hockey players. I am a diehard Boston bruins fan, but to say that hockey players are much much tougher than football players is wrong. Both games are physically demanding and most of the players play through crazy pain.
  • vladguerrerovladguerrero Posts: 4,077 ✭✭✭
    i vote for hockey as the toughest
  • lanemyer85lanemyer85 Posts: 1,362 ✭✭✭
    The difference would be the 82 game (3-4 games a week) schedule vs. the 16 game, once a week schedule. Football players are tough and all, but they aren't taking hits by guys moving 30+ mph, and 100+ mph frozen biscuits to their limbs and faces.

    Not only the Belanger incident this week, but you also have

    Ian Laperriere

    &

    Jordin Tootoo
    45 stitches & a visit the plastic surgeon, and of course played in their following game today.
  • eyeboneeyebone Posts: 1,404 ✭✭✭
    those rugby guys are pretty tough too.

    eyebone
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  • diamondmandiamondman Posts: 2,020
    Top 10 Tough and rough awards go to:
    1. Hockey
    2. Rugby
    3. Football
    4. UFC fighters
    5. Soccer
    6. Basketball
    7. Skate boarding
    8. College Wrestling
    9. College Volley Ball
    10. Saturday night in Jackson Mississippi.

    Honorable Mention: Baseball, T-Ball with parents, APA pool tournament in Hamilton,Ohio, Trigonometry on a Monday morning and Jarts with friends (with friends like these who needs enemies).



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