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Originally Posted by undercoverbrother
Let's leave sports like Basketball and Baseball out of this discussion. I don't think they compare, there is not the same physical skin on skin component. There are sports like Football, Rugby, Lacrosse, League that are all very physical and they don't have players floating around punching people in the face (the one caveat to my post is Lacrosse. I don't know enough about the sport/rosters). The aforementioned sports have fighting sometimes, but for the amount of contact/abuse between players the number/instances of fights is minimal.
So what is wrong with Hockey players?
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basketball is very physical and if there were cheapshots smacking players onto a hardwood floor, there would be a lot of fights.
I mentioned this earlier. Football and Rugby are extremely physical but they are not dirty like hockey. And anything that is dirty like hitting a QB late or hitting defenseless receivers in the head has been addressed.
Hockey is a collision sport. There's hitting from behind, charging, boarding, slashing, elbowing, running the goalie, facewashes, snowshowing the goalie etc... none of these happen in football. It's one play at a time, a player gets tackled hard, gets up and jogs back to the huddle.
They've made hockey more dangerous by increasing it's speed. Taking out the red line and taking out obstruction. You can't hold on and nuzzle/snuggle a guy into the boards anymore, you must drill him. In comparision, football and rugby are slow sports.