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Originally Posted by Russic
This is my biggest issue with the enforcement argument. There are plenty of sports played at a high speed with lots of intensity in a small area. If fighting is a true form of cathartic release, shouldn't every football game end with somebody having their neck broken? I just don't see this aggression boiling over in other sports.
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I think you're confusing physical play with agression. Football is physical but there are no cheap shots. All players get injured by accident and even now blows to the head are penalized.
I watched an entire football game last night and there was not one incident that would have been determined as 'cheap'.
As much as I like hockey, it's a very dirty sport compared to football and needs to be regulated by the refs (who don't) or by the players.
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Originally Posted by undercoverbrother
I always wonder why hockey is the only contact sport that needs the players to enforce the rules.
Why are there other violent/physical sports that don't require the same?
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again baseball players enforce their own rules (a fastball to the head)