Hockey and footballs discussion has come up many times over the years and the question is which sport is tougher? Most people side with their own sport. Football fans choose football, hockey fans pick hockey. This discussion always has fans split down the middle.
Let's start with hockey, first of all I am a big hockey fan have been playing it since I was 3 years old. Alright hockey players skate on ice with skate blades about ⅛ of an inch which is way harder than then playing on turf with both of your feet. The players are playing with razor sharp blades and skating around with composite sticks. The man can skate faster than he can run, which means that a full speed collision is way more dangerous than a football collision.
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All these stands unpadded, All this happens during a game where is you get hit there's no stoppage of play. You must get up and start playing without assistance. All this doesn't even bring up the little vulcanized rubber flying around the ice around 90 miles per hour.
Moving on to football, a football player may not be able to move as fast as a hockey player, and they're now carrying sticks or wearing skates. However they are wearing spikes which an catch any part of the body faster than a skate can. There's more about toughness than equipment players wear.
As we said earlier hockey players have boards getting checked into the boards hurts. However the boards act as a shock reliever, which means the hit to the player gets transferred to the boards. In football there is no reliever which means every hit is open field. The turf played in football is not as hard as ice. Considering the low amount of padding on the lower body. It hurts just about the same. Let's talk about the height, the tallest hockey player Zdeno Chara stands at 6,9 feet tall. Bu that doesn't make a difference that the average hockey layer is between 5,9 and 6,4. But in football the average lineman is taller than the average NHL
Let's start with hockey, first of all I am a big hockey fan have been playing it since I was 3 years old. Alright hockey players skate on ice with skate blades about ⅛ of an inch which is way harder than then playing on turf with both of your feet. The players are playing with razor sharp blades and skating around with composite sticks. The man can skate faster than he can run, which means that a full speed collision is way more dangerous than a football collision.
The biggest …show more content…
All these stands unpadded, All this happens during a game where is you get hit there's no stoppage of play. You must get up and start playing without assistance. All this doesn't even bring up the little vulcanized rubber flying around the ice around 90 miles per hour.
Moving on to football, a football player may not be able to move as fast as a hockey player, and they're now carrying sticks or wearing skates. However they are wearing spikes which an catch any part of the body faster than a skate can. There's more about toughness than equipment players wear.
As we said earlier hockey players have boards getting checked into the boards hurts. However the boards act as a shock reliever, which means the hit to the player gets transferred to the boards. In football there is no reliever which means every hit is open field. The turf played in football is not as hard as ice. Considering the low amount of padding on the lower body. It hurts just about the same. Let's talk about the height, the tallest hockey player Zdeno Chara stands at 6,9 feet tall. Bu that doesn't make a difference that the average hockey layer is between 5,9 and 6,4. But in football the average lineman is taller than the average NHL