Quote: (06-23-2014 10:23 PM)scotian Wrote:
Quote: (06-23-2014 08:20 PM)Pepini Wrote:
Quote: (06-23-2014 02:36 PM)scotian Wrote:
In Canada the only boys who play soccer are the ones whose moms won't let them play hockey, pussies.
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You know what a football player brings to a game for protection? a pair of balls.
Hockey players? Helmets, neck guard, shoulder pads, etc, etc.
Van Basten was a great player who stopped playing because of a wrong tackle from behind (1:50) :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8J4V5DHwL4
A tackle destroyed his career and since then I believe any tackle from behind is a direct red card. So you don´t want them to dive every time their being tackled??? Sure they could start using protections. But then it would not be a man game.
I couldn´t walk for 6 months because of a football injury. It was the worst time of my life.
You wanna see guts. Stand in front of a 500kg bull and dominate it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8_iDGChs8U
Hockey players wear protection because they skate on ice (hard surface) at speeds of about 50 kms/hour, they're also surrounded by hard boards and plexiglass, none of which is as forgiving as the grass on a soccer field. They also have to be careful of flying hard piece of rubber, the puck, which reaches speeds of over 150 kms/hour and sometimes hits them in the face. Hockey players often fight, bare fisted, I can't think of another pro sport where this is allowed and even encouraged.
Ryan Getzlaf gets a slap shot puck in the face (@ 0:08) and is on his feet within three seconds:
Here's a four minute video of soccer fags diving and acting like little bitches:
BTW, I must say as a fellow Canadian, the NHL is mind-numbingly boring. A bunch of atomatons, all bearded and helmeted, lacking distinctive characteristics, slamming a little black disk around the boards.