I was poking around the Big Lead, and they were excited about this article, which argues that the NHL is more physical than the NFL. As a hockey player all of my life, I'm inclined to disagree with the Big Lead's argument:
When you’ve got 300-pound lineman colliding on every play, and freakish defensive athletes acting like missiles toward unsuspecting QBs or WRs, it’s not even close. There’s probably a reason you see hockey players in their 40s; meanwhile, outside of a couple positions, NFL players bodies begin to break down much earlier.
A couple responses. First, hockey players are on skates. When he's not suffering from groin explosions, Mario Gaborik has been known to complete a lap of a NHL sized rink in 13.713 seconds. This figures out to around 27 MPH. On the other hand, Michael Bennett, of Vikings and Steelers fame was clocked at the conbine running 4.13 40. This figures out to around 19.5 MPH.
Now, I was in retard physics in high school, but the difference in impact momentum between a player moving at 27 mph and one at 19.5 mph is significantly higher. Add in the 27mph to zero instant deceleration when you meet the boards, and you can see the dramatically higher impact hockey players suffer from, compared with NFLers.
The 300 pound linemen collide with very little forward momentum, they're lined up across a ball from each other. Instead you've got guys who are nearly the same size moving at much higher rates of speed, with the sole intention of smashing into another guy.
Yeah there are some guys in their 40's playing hockey, but have you met Gary Anderson or Martin Gramatica? Keep in mind, most of the guys in their 40's are nancies, and not representative of NHLers as a whole.
In conclusion, take of your skirts you football playing nancies, hockey is, and always has been, the true manly sport.
When you’ve got 300-pound lineman colliding on every play, and freakish defensive athletes acting like missiles toward unsuspecting QBs or WRs, it’s not even close. There’s probably a reason you see hockey players in their 40s; meanwhile, outside of a couple positions, NFL players bodies begin to break down much earlier.
A couple responses. First, hockey players are on skates. When he's not suffering from groin explosions, Mario Gaborik has been known to complete a lap of a NHL sized rink in 13.713 seconds. This figures out to around 27 MPH. On the other hand, Michael Bennett, of Vikings and Steelers fame was clocked at the conbine running 4.13 40. This figures out to around 19.5 MPH.
Now, I was in retard physics in high school, but the difference in impact momentum between a player moving at 27 mph and one at 19.5 mph is significantly higher. Add in the 27mph to zero instant deceleration when you meet the boards, and you can see the dramatically higher impact hockey players suffer from, compared with NFLers.
The 300 pound linemen collide with very little forward momentum, they're lined up across a ball from each other. Instead you've got guys who are nearly the same size moving at much higher rates of speed, with the sole intention of smashing into another guy.
Yeah there are some guys in their 40's playing hockey, but have you met Gary Anderson or Martin Gramatica? Keep in mind, most of the guys in their 40's are nancies, and not representative of NHLers as a whole.
In conclusion, take of your skirts you football playing nancies, hockey is, and always has been, the true manly sport.
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