Blasphemer! Just go back to your full contact D&D and the knitting channel.

You know what I'd like to see? That sport that Dirk Benedict (a.k.a. Starbuck) was really good at in Battlestar Gallactica. Triad, I think they called it. Like basketball with body checks.

Lots of scoring in that one, as I recall.

There are only two real sports left-
Hockey and horse racing.
Hockey is still an absolute team sport, not the game of 'me me me', like the rest have become.
Showboating gets dealt with real fast, as does trash-talking. You got something to say? Let's drop the gloves and settle it.
Agility, speed, play-making and hard hitting; all done on ice.
Horse racing has an historically well-deserved reputation for the 'fix', but it's hard to beat a well run meet. (Not 'meat', gutter mind...)
Thundering down the home stretch, neck and neck...and it's always nice collecting at the window.

hooking and its bastard offspring

that just made me laugh. but I'm retarded.

Hockey reminds me of that assignment in junior high computer classes where you have to use BASIC to create a program to make a dot randomly move around the screen.

In other words, it's interesting for about 2 seconds.

I like sports and I can't stand watching hockey.

Ah, I was once like you... struggling pointlessly with soccer's lack of physicality, and football's abandon of actual skills in favor of sumo size, and then the light shone forth one day. I saw Brett Hull, then of the St. Louis Blues, go coast to coast, stickhandling through five Toronto Maple Leafs to roof the puck over Felix Potvin's shoulder. And that was the end of that... a few years later, I skated my last shift with the University of Northern Colorado and collected my Master's a couple of weeks later.

Hockey... where you just plain can't buy yourself the greatest team in history (see baseball and then look at the NY Rangers)... where the closest thing you have to morons like Terrell Owens is Jeremy Roenick... and if you want to take cheap runs at the other team's best players, or run your mouth way too much, there's always a Georges Laraque or Dale Purinton to close and weld your mouth shut afterwards.

There are very few sports that I don't enjoy watching, but amen to Jefe's post- hockey is truly the supreme team sport left. You have to have developed skills, you have to not be afraid to take a hit, and you have to work together to even have a hope of scoring. And I would merrily challenge any athlete in any sport to go through what it takes to train for hockey, both on and off-ice. I thought I was in pretty good shape after soccer. I had no idea.

The year of our discontent is officially over.

tmi3rd

They also need to go back to letting them punch the living shit out of each other on a more regular basis. Blood sells. So does sex, but having the players humping each other on the ice might be a high price to pay just to get Ace interested.

tmi3rd,

All of what you said may be true, but I still find it excrutiating to watch. I didn't even notice it being gone, and I don't welcome it's return. Believe me, I've tried to watch it, but I just can't get into it. Which is a good thing, because I already spend too much time watching far more interesting sports.

As a general rule, the quality of a sport is inversely related to it's resemblance to soccer.

Ice Hocky: Fun to play -- Can't stand to watch it! Maybe that can be the NHL's new tagline. Even actually going to a game is pretty boring. Second the inverse soccer rule. Probably why I can't stand to watch basketball either.

"The halfback holds it! The halfback holds it!"

The only thing I know about this year's hockey season is that commercial that the women's groups made such a fuss over. I'm female, I've seen that commercial probably four or five times, and I don't have a problem with it. In fact, considering that the focus is a really, really buff half-naked guy strapping on armor, I thought it was downright sexy. Plus I just have a thing for hockey skates.

Horse racing has an historically well-deserved reputation for the 'fix'

I won $300 on a harness race at Pompano Park that I knew was fixed. Got the tip from some cops I used to hang out with in Lauderdale by the Sea. They didn't get a lot of them, but the ones they got were bankable.

My all time favorite fixer : Richie Perry. He rigged the UNLV scandal 15 years ago. Pretty good skydiver - always wore a T-shirt that said "why gamble with your money when you can gamble with your life?". His jumpsuits, parachute rigs, and helmet are colored black - just like a bad guy in an old western. When he's not robbing something he's a barrel of laughs. I love the guy.

"nothing short of revolutionary."

Don't they really mean "reactionary" or perhaps "revisionist"?

But then again, how do you get a job writing about hockey? It sure ain't from reading too much Jane Austin or Edward Gibbon.

Exactly, tmi3rd.
When you put all of the dimensions of the game together, there aren't too many sports out there that have to have the all around conditioning, athleticism, and toughness to play hockey.
It doesn't translate so well on TV, but they (ESPN, ABC and FOX) were starting to figure out better ways of being able to follow the game.
For TV watching, it helps to understand the flow of the game, as that little puck is hard to see; if you know the game, you are usually ahead of the cameras, though.

The NFL doesn't allow defenders to tackle anymore...

Hmm, they wear razors on their feet. The playing surface is as hard as cement, but as slippery as an oil slick. The object of interest is a piece of rubber that is frozen solid before the game, and travels at speeds close to 100 mph when struck. They carry 6 foot long pieces of lumber that they hit each other with occasionally. The players move faster than the fastest Olympic sprinters, while often standing over 6'6 in their skates, and wear less equipment than most football players. Oh, and they will often throw off their gloves and pummel anyone who dares to give out a cheap shot. Sounds like the greatest fucking sport on the planet to me. ;}

After canciling last years season over money dispute they are returning its about time they came to their sennses

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