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Originally Posted by Da_Chief
I think time is definitely coming where fighting and to an extent body checking will be gone from the game.
There's overwhelming evidence of physical play causing concussions in football and hockey especially.
The equipment, speed and size of todays players is all too much. Two cars colliding at 40 km/h will cause damage to both cars, imagine human brains rattling in there after a collision like that.
In my opinion, the game should be about skill. If you can't hit players then you don't need retribution. There shouldn't be dirty plays, it should be strictly called, dirty plays should be lengthy suspensions.
Football will be much harder. Potentially they can try tackle zone in thighs only (below the waste, above the knees). I would also get rid of modern day helmets in football, go back to old school helmets. Helmets are used as weapons by many NFL players.
The time is coming though. Especially with the NFL finally owning up to it.
Skill, give me more skill all across the board. I don't care about hitting/fighting.
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I don't know how many people would find this level of recreational hockey entertaining. I know I would stop watching if they took out body checking.