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(04-03-2023, 01:31 AM)Nicomo Cosca Wrote: No idea why you keep labeling hockey as “barbaric” but many people say the same thing about football and we know that’s not true. Being a full contact sport doesn’t automatically equal barbaric. Again, at its core hockey is pure speed and skill. The best skaters in the sport will make your jaw drop on a nightly basis. There’s nothing “barbaric” about Connor McDavid weaving his way through 5 guys to score a highlight reel goal.

And if you think moronic, mount breathing fans are unique to hockey you’ve clearly never attended a Bengals/Steelers or Browns game before lol. Not to mention it’s quite a generalization to say the people that play hockey are unintelligent bores. It’s an international sport, consisting of players from all over the world (North America, Scandinavia, Eastern Europe, etc). That’s quite a wide range of cultures, backgrounds, etc.

As far as the intricacies of the game, hockey is indeed a simple sport, but that isn’t necessarily a bad thing. So is soccer (which shares a lot of similarities with hockey) and it’s the most popular sport in the world, by far. It’s also not completely devoid of strategy and tactics anyway. The best coaches will always get the matchups they want with their line changes, and running an effective power play is all about strategy.

Anyway, we’ll just have to agree to disagree. And for the record I don’t even dislike baseball. I grew up a big Reds fan, and have lived in Cincinnati all my life. I still root for them since they’re my hometown team, but I just can’t get into baseball as much as hockey and football as an adult. I find them both infinitely more entertaining.

That's cool.

As for the boorish fans, you never grew up in a Canadian city, so you haven't been exposed to the awful parents and friends/relatives that attend the games for younger kids and the like.

And I know football parents in the US are similar, but as I haven't lived in the US, I can't comment.

As for Soccer, funny you mention it: that is my least-favourite sport by far and I find it even more boring than hockey. I'll save the WC '06 story (if I haven't told it already on here) for another time :)