I like hockey and broomball, and bronkball. Yours?

Personally, I enjoy soccer, volleyball, and basketball. Hockey's fun to watch, though.

Counter Strike Source. It is a sport. Look at Championship Gaming Series. :o

I love football. You got the speed, the talent, the strength and physical toughness, etc.

I also love wrestling. That's the sport I do for my school. You need a lot of endurance, strength, flexibility, and you also have to be smart and know what to do right away.

Football, of course. American Football, that is.

I think playing the Wii should be it's own sport! :P Or at least an excersise routine.

Waterpolo! <3 :wub: I love that sport

Are you dissing Canadian football, mister? It's apparently alot rougher than American.

You see, Wii Sports or whatever game for the Wii is not an actualy sport. Sure, you can lose weight and use it to exercise but it's not a sport. No competition, no pro players, no contracts, no salaries, etc. :P.

Counter Strike Source has everything a real sport has but more. B)

Swimming.

Hockey, Ultimate Frisbee. Those pretty much own up everything else. Oh, and moshing, if that counts.

I think he was referring to American football compared to futball aka soccer. If so, I agree with him. Football > Soccer

Hockey is the best sport of course. Everyone knows that. :P

On the ESPN Who's Now, Crosby lost to Jeter (or somebody else). :o

Nobody likes hockey. :P

Hey, hey Alex, don't you have a cliff to jump off?

You are completely wrong. And if you knew the pretense of the competition, you'd know Jeter SHOULD have beaten Crosby. It was a competition of who pretty mcuh has bigger marketing power, on and off the ice. Sid the Kid doesn't have the cred to compete with the useless 'roid game.' Because of that bastard Bettman, the NHL gets almost no exposure in the US and it pisses me off. Luckily I have Versus so I can see all the fun games during the season. :P

CSS is lame. Please just go away.

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I'ma go cry in the corner now, meanie.

Agreed 1000%

Oh, and strip dodgeball, with chicks of course. Regular dodgeball is like my favorite. Then I discovered strip dodgeball.

Say 'no' to objectifying women~! -_-

Football is fun, although I've only played with a few girls and we didn't tackle cause we were inside the gym. Good laugh, though. :)

Im sorry Sara. I dont force anyone to play, and its not like I just watch from the sidelines or anything. I play too. Its equal oppurtunity.

I expect more intelligent statements from you, Sara. Strip dodgeball indicates that both sexes would strip, so it isn't just "objectifying women."

Regardless, women should be allowed to do what they want with their bodies, and it isn't anyone's fault aside from their own if they decide to show off their titties/pussy.

I like American Football and MMA.

I'd ask what MMA is, but since you like it, I probably don't want to know.

(American) Football > Rugby > Hockey > Wrestling > Paintball > Baseball > Basketball > Soccer

Those are the only ones I can think of off the top of my head.

EDIT: Ironically enough, that's just listed in by how much I like playing them, but oldly enough, if you swap the >'s around, that's the order of how much I like watching the sport. (Not including Soccer of course)

I probably wouldn't like watching football if I lived near Houston, either. :mellow:

Mixed Martial Arts..Like UFC.

soccer beats football, and pretty much any American sport aside from volleyball, which has a special place in my heart.

soccer takes skill moreso than any other sport. aside from basketball to a smaller extent, it's the only sport where you are constantly playing. football is wimpy in comparison, you get a break every few seconds. in soccer, you are constantly running and strategizing and working together as equals. in football, you have a limited number of people calling the shots and everyone has a different, small-scale job. aside from the occasion fumble or interception there is little to no thinking on your feet for the majority of the team. in soccer, everyone is the same, aside from a few field placement limitations, and they all have the same goal. everyone has to work together rather than accomplish something simple like hold on to the sweaty guy in front of you so he doesn't get past

Soccer more skill than any other sport? I'm not sure about that. Please explain your point here. THen I'll try to argue it the best I can.

I'll give you the face that soccer's always moving, but hockey can go for long stretches without whistles. THe whistles aren't put in to give the players time to breathe as they are in football. They call the penalty or fix the net back on the moorings and get right back to playing. Hockey is definitely more physically demanding than soccer. You go try to skate as hard as you can on ice for 40-50 seconds with a stick and controlling a little piece of rubber. Hockey players have to be some of the best conditioned individuals you'll find in professional sports.

I agree with your point about teamwork. Hockey's much the same way with everyone having to work together to win. You can't have one person go and dominate alone like you can in football or basketball.

EDIT: American sport? What do you mean by that? I'll take it you're calling hockey a Canadian sport. Maybe then we have no arguement. You're only attacking football, no?

Houston =/= Texas.

Remember that. No way would I ever consider that hell hole part of the amazing center of the world that we call Texas.

I meant American sport as any sport played in some seriousness in America. I guess I hadn't given hockey much consideration in that respect, so I'll concede your point.

and I was mainly attacking football for the record :P

Okay, we can agree to coexist peacefully.

I could see the football attack. I agree, although I rather watch football than soccer. :P Still, football is SO EASY TO ATTACK.

Actually Strike, soccer's crazier than hockey. Take it from me. In soccer, the only break you have is a moment when the ball's kicked out of bounds, and even then you only get a second before they throw it back in. The longest breaks are half time, then when someone gets injured or carded. Unlike hockey, there's only two periods meaning only one decent break. In hockey, there's two breaks, one being like... 15 minutes long. Whenever I've played soccer, half-time's been 5 minutes, at the most. It's probably more in professional games, though.

Also, hockey isn't quite as physically demanding as soccer. It is in terms of physical toughness, due to checking and stuff, but when it comes to conditioning... hell no. How long is a line on? 3 minutes? 5? Not much at a time. In soccer, you might get substituted out, but even then only if you're playing bad. Otherwise, you're in for the full hour and a half, which, by the way, is alot more than hockey's 20 minute periods.

And for my final point, let's look at the actual game. Sure, in hockey, you get knocked around, but with that amount of equipment... you can't possibly be taking the full impact of the hit. In soccer, your only equipment is your shinpads and your cleats. Going up for a headball? You've got to deal with the bodies of the people around you. Plus, there's slide tackling. Soccer can be a damn rough game. See, last night there was a men's league game here. Someone hit a friend of mine, and he hit them back. Ended up with someone getting kneed in the face and blood everywhere.

As for the skill point... well, have you tried skating for a mile and running for a mile? Running's alot harder, because you can't propel yourself forward as much on ground as on ice. Plus, one could argue that it's more difficult to train your feet to shoot a ball than it is to train your hands to use a stick to shoot a puck. It's also damn hard to run as fast as you can while still trying to control the ball. Multi-tasking =/= my strong point. :/

Edit: Sorry about the whole actually thing. It's a habit now. Inside joke, I guess.

You get a break because someone is guaranteed to get their shit rocked every play, dumbass.

ooooh, profane exclamations. great for proving a point, and they illuminate your level of maturity nicely.

but aside from the crudeness, you're wrong too. the majority of plays end in nothing serious for anyone. that's what they have the protective gear for. yeah, so they get tackled, so what? they get right back up again. I've had more intense incursions with my little brother than I've ever seen in a football game.

and here's a point: you can find countless movies of clips from soccer headshots, falls, pulls and collisions (that's with nothing more than shin pads), but how many funny montages of football accidents have you seen? none for me, and I look around that kind of stuff a lot.

and I went and looked just for the heck of it, and the average time for a play in football in a whopping 6 seconds. and don't forget you have offense and defense alternating as well.

FIFA's halftimes are 15 minutes long, not sure where you play with 5 minutes. NHL's "half"times are 15 minutes long aswell, but they get 2 "half" times.

Again, not sure where you play, but did you honestly just compare the physical thoughness of kicking a ball around to smashing people around that are fighting over a little puck? Plus, it'd be 3/4 of an hour, not 3/2, unless you're not counting the breaks, but then, the hockey player would be in for a full hour.

The equipment just makes it worse if anything, you have to lug it around everywhere going full speed at people who are willing to obliterate you just to take the puck away. I've headed tons of soccerballs in my day, it's no worse then gently slamming your head into a padded wall. Slide tackling's nothing, I've gotten way worse marks playing baseball then I have soccer. I was gonna go noobish-OMG style on your last remark there, but I'll just go for the: 5+ Hockey Fight a game > 1 Soccer Fight every 5 games approach.

What about trying to ski with all that padding you mentioned earlier? It really weighs a person down. I can't ski for shit, so running's a hell of alot easier for me then sking, but then again, that's why I'm not in a Ice Hockey league ;). Any 2 year old can kick a ball, you show me a 2 year old who can perfectly shoot a puck, I'll show you Wayne Gretzky (((Okay, so it's not ~that~ dramatic, but I made my point)))

I'll assume your going with Football > American Football. The gear's not there to make you feel better, it's there to make sure you get a chance to play the game the next day ;). I'd be more then willing to put on some football gear, give you some track shoes, and let me show you just how hard a real football tackle is, unless you're playing a bunch of snotty-nosed kids, you're not getting up from every tackle. I've seen people die in football, and no, not they died in the gym working out for football; someone tackled them so hard, it snapped their spine. Not the prettiest picture in the world, go google it, I've seen at least 5 people die like that, there's bound to be tons more.

You're kidding?

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Seriously?

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Where the hell have you been looking? You can find them all over freaking YouTube. Maybe because you're looking for "funny" and "accidents" Football stuff isn't funny, it damn sure ain't an accident.

I could kill a man in 6 seconds. 'Nough said.

Hmm best sport.......Id have to say Football and Martial arts like UFC and boxing

I've played around in a summer league, plus in the high school league. Not exactly professional, I know. So yeah, longer cumulative breaks proven in hockey.

It is 3/2. 45 minute halves. Even watching the FIFA U-20 game, only two subsitutions were made at half time, meaning most of the team was playing for the full hour and a half. And, by the way, have you actually played competitive soccer? It gets rough. Most of the extremely rough stuff is banned, making it definitely not as rough as hockey, but it can get bad.

I'm not talking about the physical aspect of heading the ball. I'm more talking about what goes on while you're trying to head the ball. People are shoving and pushing and everything, mostly because the ref is focusing on the ball and not on the players anymore. Getting slide tackled is bad if the other player's an ass and aims for your feet instead of the ball. Also, the fight thing is relative. Of course guys like rough things and enjoy watching them more (stereotypically).

I'm assuming you mean "skate" for everytime you said "ski" there. Yes, the basics of soccer are much easier to learn than hockey. I'll admit anyone can kick a ball. However, I've never played hockey in a league or anything, but... well, I know I could put the puck top shelf without too much trouble (excluding the skating. I suck at skating). It's not that easy to hit a soccer ball top shelf; I've been playing for... 12 years now, and I can still barely get the ball off the ground at times, let alone top shelf.

Stop debating. This is an opinion topic, not a debate topic.

I thought we were talking about psychical toughness, endurance is a huge factor in that IMO.

Well, I'm only going by what I've seen on FIFA, and I've yet to seen a ball stay in the air for so long, and in a group of so many people, that it happened. You should should be smart enough not to pass it to someone completely surrounded, unless we're talking about heading the ball while 5 feet from the net, but that can easily be compared to throwing hail-mary passes in football.

Actually, I was trying to say ski-ating, before you interrupted me... Okay, yeah, skating <_<
That's just a matter of how dexteriious you are, I've played for 1 year, and can kick a ball near perfectly. Well, maybe near-near perfectly.

EDIT: I click the add reply before you posted that <_<

Yes. But not competitive lap swimming type stuff. Just swim around freely, whack each other with noodles, throw floating stuff at each other, play b-ball in the water, etc. I do competitive swimming but it's boring as hell.

Hockey. I don't particularly care for it, but one thing in defense of how crazy it is.
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I'll play pretty much any sport, but for watching on TV I like hockey and football. Basketball has become way too offense-friendly, and baseball is just too slow. Too bad there are only 2-3 hockey games on a week.