Help settle dispute on athleticism...

[wes56]

+1 for this shit! What about competitive disc golf

[lpgasman]

More like vatos jotos.

Honey hush.

[Madeinhb]

Thats like saying every basketball player needs to be able to make it down the court...or maybe just stay and defend/rebound and or dunk...

Half the hockey players stay back for defense. The goalie barely moves his ass except to gather up a puck to slide to the ref.
Hockey scores so few points they had to allow for power plays that probably account for almost half the goals in a game.

Hockey is cool because of the contact. If it wasn't for that, they are essentially a smaller field soccer team on ice wearing pads and helmets carrying sticks. Just not many points scored. Yeah...soccer has Goooooooooooaaaaaaaallllllll! But you get a buzzer and a light!

Umm last I checked the defenseman go up and down the ice. I didn't say they stood there but basketball players aren't running full speed the entire. Most jog.

[ImNtUrBuddyGuy]

45 or 9mm?..

This is apple to oranges in my opinion.

You can make an argument for either. Watch Magic Johnson highlights, he was an athletic freak at point guard who could play any position (and he did).

The sports are totally different.

I voted bball just to be a contrarian

[Drilldov2.0]

Exactly, I played hockey for 15 years, up to Juniors. (I thought I may be able to make a run through Majors and possibly go NHL. Until our team scrimmaged the North Stars. lol) I played as a defenseman for most of it. Spent a lot of time in the box. Because if you harass my goalie or dare touch my goalie, I am coming after you. If I don't get to you on that shift, coach will switch lines for me to get you on your next one. Mess with one of our top players, I am going to introduce myself to you. That being said, hockey is way more intense and athletic than basketball. I have played both. Never was I in better condition than when I was playing hockey.

Fights in hockey serve a very well planned and useful purpose. You don't want your best players getting railed unjustly and having an "enforcer" or "goon" keeps the other team in check. Make a bad run at a good player just to try and take him out of the game and you may as well resign yourself to the fact that your next shift the gloves are coming off.
Remember what I said about "ettiquite" on the ice?
That's part of it. A strategically planned fight can turn the tide of a game, it can have a way of psychologically boosting a team in a close game that has been getting bad breaks etc.
The proverbial shot in the arm.

Delfuego- I did infact play goal for a total of about 7 years, 5 when I was in school and 2+ in the adult leagues at Hyland Hills. I gave it up in the beer leagues when I got so frustrated I got in a fight playing in the net and got bounced from the game and the next one as well. I thought it was stupid to spend so much to have "fun" and then miss playing cause I was a knucklehead and frustrated.
I went back out to defense the next season.
Goalies love a defenseman that sees the game the same way they do.I miss the intensity of the net though, everything is that much more in focus and the puck seems as big as a basketball when your in the psych.
I had to stop playing in 08 after I blew out my back at work but I find myself jonesing for some ice time now. Maybe I will have to check out a "stick & puck" soon. Got the itch to bang the biscuit around a bit eh?

[JM Ver. 2.0]

DrillDov and Bert....

If you ever want to, the APEX Center down in Arvada has skate and shoots every morning... I'd love to meet up on a Monday or Tuesday morning.

And, if I don't have softball, I play in a drop in on Tuesday nights... If you feel up to it, I could get ya a spot.

[BPTactical]

Sent from my teepee using smoke signals.

Awesome!
You found pictures of your Grandma!

[jerrymrc]

I'm going to tell you the same thing I told the feeble old man Omicron..

Ban me? That's all you got? I've done time, essey... Hard time in the pen... You don't scare me, homes....



OR! In typical Colorado Department of Corrections inmate speak...

I'M D.O.C, BITCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Paul had nothing to do with it but Hoser said next time you become part of the red mist from his C130.

This one is as good as a 9 vs 45 or Jeep/Toyota fight but in my mind Hockey wins. Have nothing to go on as I played Football.

[Delfuego]

I didn't know that Fat & Slow could actually be captured in a photograph.... and then Bam!

Seriously though, I do have a little more respect for JM... but only a little.

[JM Ver. 2.0]

Paul had nothing to do with it but Hoser said next time you become part of the red mist from his C130.

This one is as good as a 9 vs 45 or Jeep/Toyota fight but in my mind Hockey wins. Have nothing to go on as I played Football.

No no... I know who banned me. The stuff I said in here came from another thread with Paul and I. All good fun.

Sent from my teepee using smoke signals.