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Why wouldn't it be hockey? To me violent acts include things like fighting... and in hockey you're actually 'allowed' to do this as part of the game. Whereas in football if players threw off their helmets and gloves and started to fight that would more than likely get them ejected, suspended, and fined for doing so. Not to mention the potential with getting hit with a rock hard puck coming at you at 100+ MPH, or taking an elbow to the chin that knocks out multiple teeth, or the blade of the stick or even worse the skate that can lacerate an exposed part of your body that forces a player to need multiple stitches or even worse... potential death. Go ahead and google "Clink Malarchuk Incident".... and then come back and tell me that football is more violent than hockey.
Oh... and NHL players have to maintain themselves throughout an 82 game season and if they're lucky a grueling run through the playoffs in hopes to not only sniff the Stanley Cup.... but to hold it up over their heads at the end.
In my opinion hockey is more violent because you get hit by the puck and by the hockey stick. It will likely also cause more bloody injuries than football.
Football- just by the nature of the game is more violent.
Hasn't the NHL and other leagues frowned upon the fighting in hockey? I surely don't see fighting as much as in the 80's and earlier.
You guys are bragging on the violence because it's good? Sheesh not me. Give me a game that takes skill over brute force anyday. I'm not saying there isnt skill in football, there is. But football is a game of strength and power...
Well it depends on what you mean by "violent." If violent means getting bloodied then it's hockey, but if by violent you mean more long term health problems then it's easily football. Football is the #1 sport with getting concussions and hockey's the 2nd sport I believe (guys only). In girls sports soccer is the number 1 sport for concussion with I think lacrosse second and basketball 3rd.
In my opinion hockey is more violent because you get hit by the puck and by the hockey stick. It will likely also cause more bloody injuries than football.
The entire point of football is to slam the person carrying the ball to the ground. There are 11 people nearly solely out to get to this person and take them out. The size and strength of players is all designed around blasting your way THROUGH other people to take control over area.
Hockey is physical as well, but the person carrying the puck is not exactly in the same position as someone carrying a football.
Try playing football every other day like hockey lol...
The entire point of football is to slam the person carrying the ball to the ground. There are 11 people nearly solely out to get to this person and take them out. The size and strength of players is all designed around blasting your way THROUGH other people to take control over area.
Hockey is physical as well, but the person carrying the puck is not exactly in the same position as someone carrying a football.
Try playing football every other day like hockey lol...
This! As far as a definition of violence to hurt is part of it and by physical force you have to hurt the other guy to get him out of the way, if you shy away from that you have lost a tool and there are only 3 at tops players on the field that are allowed that luxury because of a specialist skill they bring.
Even on the offensive side of football half of the team is using violence to stop the other 11 defensive players from blasting through them and of the ones who carry the ball only a couple are seen as so worthy that they avoid contact and the rest will conduct a spoiling attack on the defender should he come at the ball carrier weakly in attempt to gently touch him down. There is an imbalance in football now that the chief ball handler, the quarterback is so protected that when he decides to run his being larger than half of the defenders he can also use his mass to blast through them should he want to instead of taking a knee., Especially with the defenders pulling back because of his by rules protected status, thinking he might take a knee.
Hockey violence is incidental. perhaps someone is near a board and you can nudge him out of position and rebound off to recover your's. But by tradition hockey allows an amount of criminal vigilante violence should someone think the other went beyond the socially accepted norm in nudging out of position plays.
This! As far as a definition of violence to hurt is part of it and by physical force you have to hurt the other guy to get him out of the way, if you shy away from that you have lost a tool and there are only 3 at tops players on the field that are allowed that luxury because of a specialist skill they bring.
Even on the offensive side of football half of the team is using violence to stop the other 11 defensive players from blasting through them and of the ones who carry the ball only a couple are seen as so worthy that they avoid contact and the rest will conduct a spoiling attack on the defender should he come at the ball carrier weakly in attempt to gently touch him down. There is an imbalance in football now that the chief ball handler, the quarterback is so protected that when he decides to run his being larger than half of the defenders he can also use his mass to blast through them should he want to instead of taking a knee., Especially with the defenders pulling back because of his by rules protected status, thinking he might take a knee.
Hockey violence is incidental. perhaps someone is near a board and you can nudge him out of position and rebound off to recover your's. But by tradition hockey allows an amount of criminal vigilante violence should someone think the other went beyond the socially accepted norm in nudging out of position plays.
"Nudge them out of position"? Let's get real, hits in hockey can be much worse than football.
If Roger Goodell succeeds in his goal of turning the NFL into glorified flag football... the answer will definitely be hockey.
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