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Originally Posted by soulchoice
You may love the sport but if the current game doesn't suit your needs then perhaps find hockey to watch which meets the parameters you like? Maybe watch women's hockey more and find some non contact games around the city. The realm of contact you want, seperating the man from the puck is just not going to happen. The entire game itself would be different.
For example a friend of mine whom I trained in martial arts my whole life no longer wanted to watch UFC for the sheer brutality. They still love the martial arts so they dont watch those fights. So instead watches point based martial arts non contact tournaments. He still can watch one part of skill that martial arts has by this change of viewing.
The chance of him seeing a less violent UFC was not happening anytime soon. So he chose something else which meets his criteria.
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My view is that sports like hockey and football are going to have to figure out how to evolve or risk their very existence.
I think the timeline for that is probably pretty long (20-25 years) but this is something almost every sport is going to have to confront.
So I see change happening. I just don't know when.
I don't know why we have to speak in absolutes though. Including basically telling me to not watch the sport anymore.