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Originally Posted by El Capitano Gatisto Hence why hockey (field hockey that is with ice hockey being the derivative) is a much more popular sport. They're both shit anyway. Ice hockey is fucking rubbish. You can't even see the ball. Plus they wear loads of padding like fucking gays.

Pretty ignorant for a few reasons. It's a puck first of all, and secondly it's the fastest game going, with the hardest hits, toughest players of any sport.

Padding is needed mainly because besides Boxing or MMA, which are individual sports, Hockey is the team sport where it's most likely you could possibly die.

You have sharp weapons that can slice right through you, like skate blades..btw, some guys have gotten their neck sliced and blood gushed from their bodies, yet a couple days later they ask when they can come back to play. Guys break their bones and continue on playing. Toughness personified.

You've got hard ice, hard pucks flying around at sometimes over speeds of 100mph, guys going at full speed to knock you on your ass, or sometimes into hard boards and glass...they aint playing on a soft surface like your lilly soccer players(who btw dive and roll around on the ground for simply bending their finger the wrong way)

There is not one team sport that compares to the toughness of Hockey players. And when they fight, they go. No holding back.

So go ahead and enjoy your pussy fest soccer and cricket bullshit. And fucking Field hockey, whatever the fuck that is.