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- bstory, on 04/24/2008, -4/+116NHL - think about it these guys take to the ice with weaponry; 1 - 6 foot stick, they shoot a frozen chunk of hard rubber at speed close to and occasionally exceeding 100 mph, each player has 2 double sided razor blades strapped to their feet and they smash into each other at speed in an effort to smash the other guy into the boards. NFL and Rugby - sure they hammer each other into the soft ground and limbs do get broken upon occasion but come on... there really is no comparison when you put it into proper perspective.
- Nev9, on 04/24/2008, -7/+75NFL have 16 games regular season, NHL 82 games. Just that shows hockey is a tougher sport
- slamcut, on 04/24/2008, -2/+44Synchronized swimming by a mile.
- Braxo, on 04/24/2008, -0/+37I always tear up a little whenever I see an NHL article make it to the front page.
Go Sabres! - sublimer, on 04/24/2008, -1/+38NHL for 3 big reasons...
1. Its a much longer season
2. You move 2-3 times faster than you do in football (F = ma)
3. There are boards perpendicular to the ice, and when you fall, you land on ice or go head first into the boards, not grass! - justinx0r, on 04/24/2008, -3/+35NHL is a league, not a game. But hockey of course. Football is my second favorite sport and all but it doesn't compare to hockey.
- IHaveIssues, on 04/24/2008, -1/+28Holy ***** music Batman!
- eLuminx, on 04/24/2008, -13/+36NHL, to me the NFL just looks like a pussied down rugby.
- thentro, on 04/24/2008, -2/+22Hockey, because you can't just stop.
- inactive, on 04/24/2008, -1/+21NHL is a real mans sport. I give credit to NFL, for obvious reasons, but NHL is by far much better to watch/see.
- cybrspin, on 04/24/2008, -4/+24rugby is tuff, very very tough, but the physic don't match compared to hockey. Hockey players experience impacts similar to slow car accidents. Ever consider the physics behind two 200+ lb men travelling over 30kph colliding. There quite scary.
- Locnar, on 04/24/2008, -0/+19Even though I'm a Huge NFL fan... I have to say NHL... just on the fact that I've never seen a Quarterback get his throat cut during a game.. ( maybe a fan in the stands..)
- RustyJ, on 04/24/2008, -0/+16Times like these i wish there was a delete comment button on digg. I fail.
- ventralnet, on 04/24/2008, -0/+15sorry for calling you an idiot
- vanguardanon, on 04/24/2008, -0/+15In hockey they are moving a lot faster, the playing field is surrounded by walls, and the ice is a lot harder than the grass. Also, I noticed that for hockey they didn't have to go back to the 1960's to find hard hitting footage. Finally, I know a lot of hockey footage that they left out.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3744368008 ... - Jhiaxuz, on 04/24/2008, -2/+16No fights in the video for hockey = lame.
- ventralnet, on 04/24/2008, -1/+15he was talking about the hockey puck idiot
- purplehaze420, on 04/24/2008, -0/+13What do you define as a sport? NHL is a real man's sport.
- redlantern64, on 04/24/2008, -1/+13Twice in the past 20 years NHL players have had their throats slashed by another player's skate. As much as I want to say football is more brutal, how do you beat that?
- raublekick, on 04/24/2008, -3/+15In the NHL, players get close to rupturing a testicle (Thoresen), players fight, players lose teeth, players get black eyes, and sometimes players try to draw blood from themselves to incur a larger penalty on the opposing team. What does the NFL do? Make rules against celebrating in the end zone?
- smiyamoto, on 04/24/2008, -0/+11It's got to be hockey come on! Steel, ice, blood, teeth. It's the closest thing we have to a blood sport. Name another sport that allows players to fight and awards a winner? Throw a guy through the glass or over the boards no probs. The players wouldn't even wear helmets if they didn't have to. Ever see the crew come out to clean up blood on the ice? It's really disturbing really. Football is a joke compared to the NHL. I'd much rather take my chances on the grass rather than in a fenced in ice rink with no escape. And Aussie rules? I played that in high school. It's a little girls game for small little ladies. Aussie ladies.
- Hellman109, on 04/24/2008, -0/+9Im an Aussie and Ive played competative Rugby (Union) and Gridiron (American Football). Gridiron is MUCH tougher. While I might have seen maybe two dozen good tackles in a Rugby match, every single play in Gridion I was hitting someone. I played Prop in Rugby and O/D line in Gridiron, so not sissy positions.
PS: Ive seen a number of rugby players get scared at the prospect of kickoffs... I run full pelt (@120kg) down a field and try to knock someone on his ass basically... Ive never seen anything like it in Rugby - tehnico, on 04/24/2008, -0/+9There were sooo many illegal hits in the hockey clips, lots of leaving your feet and elbows galore. That said, so many of the legal ones were as jaw shattering
- Jhiaxuz, on 04/24/2008, -0/+8Al MacInnis did it all with wood too!
"There's hard, and then there's MacInnis hard." - inactive, on 04/24/2008, -5/+13If rugby was so hard core then they would wear padding. Broken necks, spinal cords, death and paralysis are good examples of why football players wear pads. Having a 350 lb lineman fall on you is another reason! Don't see too many 240 lb. linebackers with 3% bodyfat who run 4.4 sec 40 yard dashes in rugby either. It's just a bunch of drunk brits and aussies who think they are bad ass lol..
- brian4572, on 04/24/2008, -0/+8I know man it's like pringles.
- tellahoohooo, on 04/24/2008, -1/+9A) a hockey stick is not 6 feet long...I'm 6'3" = 6'5.5" on skates and my stick is maybe 5 feet, though I like it shorter for better puck control.
B) the puck rarely reaches speeds of 100...I would say that it averages in a pro game at least of about 45...which is still gonna do some damage if you weren't wearing pads...shots from the point, dumps & clears are usually when the pucks traveling the fastest...in game situations probably maxing out at around 90mph...depending on the amount of time someone has to get the shot off. But that's a max...yes skill competition when they are 15 feet from the net and can skate full speed at the puck & have an uninterrupted slap shot it will break 100...but even then most of them only reach 98.
C) Hitting isn't just smashing into each other, its a matter of timing, lining a guy up & yes if the boards are there, using them to assist you in the check to pin the person in place... Saying your just smashing into one another makes hockey sound like some kind of uncontrollable melee. Its a very precise game, which most people can't see just by watching it.
D) The main point is that hockey doesn't stop...you can literally play for 20 straight minutes, w/out a stoppage, rarely if ever does this happen, but It could. Also there are 2-3 games a week, in a 85 game season, which is followed by playoffs where you play every other day, unless your series ends early and then you get a few days rest. But even when your not playing, your at practice. NFL = stop start, stop start, stop start, time out, 2 minute warning, etc...1 game per week w/ a by week.
E) Hockey will kick your ass, there is a reason guys are only out there from 45seconds - 1:15 (and if they are out there this long they are usually defending in there end in the hopes of clearing the puck w/out icing it so they can get off the ice & catch their breath)
F) The speed of the game, NFL just doesn't compare, its the fast game in the world
Conclusion: NHL by far - Jhiaxuz, on 04/24/2008, -2/+9I think they were comparing the two to each other. You know, the Vs. part sort of makes that clear...
- dema, on 04/24/2008, -0/+7Ah! You reminded me of the hitch! Being blind-sided INTO the wall is not as bad because the wall itself absorbs more of the blow than the person. They did both an open ice and wall check, and I think the open ice hit was actually worse than the blind-sided QB. Now I really want to see that show again, lol.
- pojut, on 04/24/2008, -1/+8To be honest, both (American) football and hockey are insanely brutal and potentially devastating to the bodies of the folks that play them. I'm sure there some evidence that one hits harder than the other or whatnot, but frankly you have to be a monster to do either of them professionally.
I have one final thing to add:
C-A-P-S CAPS CAPS CAPS
They FINALLY made it to the playoffs again this year...next year, the cup! - sagat, on 04/24/2008, -0/+7Hockey wins this hands down based on numer of lost teeth. There's only one game I would consider more dangerous than hockey and that's hurling: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJFHpc5akmg
- redlantern64, on 04/24/2008, -1/+8W/ all respect to the Discovery Channel, I find it hard to believe that a QB being blindsided w/ nothing but air on the opposite end of the oncoming force is more devastating that being blindsided by a checker coming on at full speed into a wall.
- HotSaucePanCake, on 04/24/2008, -4/+11Hockey, they are moving at least twice as fast when they hit each other. Ice skating is fun!!!
- ilves7, on 04/24/2008, -0/+6Actually, at the all-star games they have the hardest shot competition, the winner usually clocks in around 102-104 mph on the slapshots.
- ucuntu, on 04/24/2008, -0/+6Wrestling is the most brutal SOAP OPERA, not sport.
- wrathchilde, on 04/24/2008, -1/+7Dugg for hit from Steve Largent at 2:05, 5'11" 187 lb. After (typical) Dave Craig interception.
- tellahoohooo, on 04/24/2008, -0/+6given that your comment doesn't make sense, I don't consider it a comment
- MisterEX, on 04/24/2008, -4/+10Or it shows the complete opposite. If the NFL had games every other day like hockey does, that would be ridiculous. An average hockey player is on the ice for about 40 seconds at a time. The amount of SOLID hits in hockey are rather minimal and fights are just as rare anymore.
- FearisFailure, on 04/24/2008, -2/+7If you notice in the NFL side of the video all the clips are from the early 90's they don't hit like that anymore in the NFL. In the video side of the NHL its from the early 90's to the present. I played both Hockey and Football and I got more injuries playing Hockey than I did in Football..
- Zaphrod, on 04/24/2008, -0/+5It ain't no dixie cup and it ain't no coffee mug and you certainly don't wanna be drinkin' nothin' out of it.
- SuperMoses, on 04/24/2008, -1/+6BME pain olympics is more brutal, but this video was about NHL vs NFL.
- mlavergn, on 04/24/2008, -0/+5Having played full contact hockey in college, let me tell you that I'll take an open ice hit over a hit 3 feet from the boards any day of the week. I'd rather have room to dissipate a hit by sliding back on the ice than share it with a wall of steel and plexiglass. The plexiglass gives a tiny bit, but the walls are rock solid.
- toonworld, on 04/24/2008, -1/+6I love Hockey! NHL for sure. I think it would have been a better match-up if they compared Hockey with Rugby.
- Jhiaxuz, on 04/24/2008, -1/+6Clint Malarchuck or the recent Richard Zednik would say hockey. Google it.
- inactive, on 04/24/2008, -1/+6You have that backwards ace.
Football is played once a week because you need that time to recover from it. If the NFL played that many games in a year, you would have about 10 players in the whole game by the time the season was over. There is a reason they talk about teams being "healthy" for the playoffs, it usually makes a huge difference. - MisterEX, on 04/24/2008, -1/+6Go Flyers! Sorry, I had to.
- zalpz, on 04/24/2008, -1/+6hockey is difficult to compare to sports that require just a ball to play. football is one of the more respectable games seeing as there's hard hitting and the opportunity for big plays. Hockey on the other hand is the best sport to play and watch, its faster then basketball, not so stop&go like football, and fighting is allowed and has very detailed rules.
go rangers! - FXPooky, on 04/24/2008, -1/+6Say what? Sabres? You didn't even make it to the series, heh.
Go Habs! - MRintheKeys, on 04/24/2008, -1/+6It's hard work to sit on your ass and chew sun flower seeds before standing out in the grass for about 20 minutes.
- inactive, on 04/24/2008, -1/+5Most diggers wouldnt know a football from a titty because they never touched either one.
This has to be the worst site in the universe to decide this issue on. -
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