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Edit: 'cause someone thought I should change the post title

http://www.nhl.com/

go PENS!

Pelting a little plastic puk around.

It's like AFL - kicking a ball back and forth across the field. The only thing NHL has going for it are the brawls.

are incredible...

Have you ever seen a hockey game live and up close and personal? Darryl, my brother Pat, his wife Cheryl, and I went to a Halifax Mooseheads http://www.halifaxmooseheads.ca/main/index game a few years ago (they bought us tickets for Christmas that year), it rocked! We were up close to the glass and when they would come into the boards along the walls, it would shake like crazy.

Oh, isn't that soccer? Around here, this is football http://www.nfl.com/

helmets required

edit for clarification

That's a really scary mascot. I mean, even the Ducks are scarier. At least they haven't been separated from their bodies.

but this isn't the NHL in Halifax, it's the major juniors league...we watched Brad Marchand from the Boston Bruins play one of his last junior games before he got drafted. And being a Nova Scotian, I've seen a moose up close and personal, be afraid if one of them comes charging after you.

http://www.halifaxmooseheads.ca/main/index

I don't understand why I keep you around sometimes.....geez.

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you need to read the post above dear

(TWO irresistible, apple-cheeked, cutesy faces go here)

thanks bergen we do like to amuse the masses hehe

Anyone here read the 'Zits' comic strip? These two are TR's answer to RichAndAmy.

i don't know what you mean

Frank, one of my roommates when I still lived in the barracks met his future wife, Vickie, and the two became inseparable away from work.

Yep, you guessed it. FrankenVickie. Frank had a sense of humor about it; Vickie, as I recall, didn't.

Is not soccer. In fact, I'd prefer to watch soccer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Football_League

i stand corrected

Just had the grand final, and it was a draw. So the plan is, instead of doing the clever thing and allowing overtime, they're scheduling a second grand final.
Talk about money pinching.

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AFL makes hockey look like a sport for Girl Guides.

Sure they wear some leather shoulder pads, but the game hardly stops, like rugby.

Football, North American Style, is a game of stops and starts, a few minutes on the field at a time and only seconds playing each play.

people's defenses are the giys are HUGE, they hit HARD, etc. Yeah, and so are Aussies rules guys, without the extra kevlar body armor, helmets etc.

If North America had Aussie rules football, what we deem football would be quickly called a game for sissies. but as NFL and CFL is all we have here, it is "the man's" game.

LOL, gotta love national pride resulting in such a defensive mentality.

I'd LOVE to see any NFL or CFL team drop the pads in the locker room and take on St, Kilda or Collingwood.

Differs with the demand. And AFL requires a higher cardio fitness whereas NFL/CFL seems to require ground to opponent strength. Short bursts of power.
I'd say that Soccer would also require a high cardio fotness as well. But seeing the players, they are hardly as built in the upper body, so perhaps the cardio demand is even higher.

Rugby and the NFL/CFL really are similar in their physical demands, as there are many stop/starts, but they throw the ball backward so it takes much longer to get the ball across the line.

I never was very good at sports, but I was unfit as a kid so it never suited me. Now, however, my fitness has increased somewhat, so I may enjoy it a little more.

Haha, I could imagine the difficulty in the NFL/CFL players trying to get their heads around the need to bounce the ball whilst moving!

Is both. Receivers have very high cardio, less bulk. Defensive lines, tackles etc. are generally enormous men (I mean MASSIVE) that are often grossly obese, live on 30 burgers a day and are strictly MASS TO BE MOVED by the opponent.

Sure they are all athletes that excel in specific areas, but as for tough guys? AFL players would walk all over most football players without their pads on.

Speaking of pads, what do crack ****** and a hockey goalies have in common?

Not tellin' ya THAT one online. LOL

Meow.

Don't you wish you just let it go? LOL Sorry, mate.

Is a joke and is to be laughed at.
Hence the laughter.
I have no boundaries, really.

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it sounds like I took your brother & my wife.

She's just ignoring her sister in-law.
No biggie.

but i could never do that...actually, my sister in law and i are quite close...she got me my last job too plus she's our little girl's favorite aunt

Is a dangerous game to play.

keep in mind that she still loves everyone, but my brother's wife is the one that spends the most time with her and spoils her just that little bit more...and she does that to all of them whenever she gets the chance; they don't have children nor do they plan on having any so they spoil the nieces and nephews whenever they get the chance

You may want to consider to duck;
Watch for a light of speed puck.
Hope for some luck
When you say it do suck,
Here it comes, "Watch out! Oh, (y)uck!"

Okay, so I don't do limericks. Sue me. Is it a crime to have A=B?

i thought it was cute none the less

if you can't be clever be ...

(irresistible, apple-cheeked, cutesy face goes here)

I was a goalie....not allowed to "duck"

Gotta hope to High Hell that your groin guard is strapped in correctly!

I was a goaltender for a few years....

That's not a "little plastic puk" (us Canadians spell it "puck"....it's made of very hard rubber....when it hits you in the head you see a few stars (back when I played it wasn't wire masks....we had the hard plastic ones)).

As for football...I was a guard on the offense line...I got beat up pretty bad.....it wasn't like kicking a little white & black ball around

My lack of terminology proves I know very little of the sport. But, as with all sport, it's far more interesting playing it than watching it.

Canadian football is a bit similar to the american gridiron isn't it?
Perhaps you'd have enjoyed playing Rugby with the New Zealanders... They're bigger and rougher than the footballers... and wear no pads, except for their massive necks!

I still prefer my full-contact Karate, any time of the week!

They are pretty close > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_American_and_Canadian_football Darryl has a better idea than I do, but he's logged off for the night. That link should show you the differences

Think that rugby makes them look like boys in padded suits.

Much the way I think of Tae Kwon Do...

I've seen a couple rugby games...they're nasty...rougher than football without any gear...ouch!

I was one of the yearbook phtographers, so I went to many high school football games. The occasional hard hit but never more than a minute on the field, and then a walk it off. Our school played rugby against the other shools in the district but it was pretty tame too.

Then we had a exchange with a school in Wales, and the rugby teams met up. Four of our players lost consciousness, and one had a broken collarbone. And this was with a team that was staying in our players homes for the duration of their stay. Imagine if they were archrivals.

And imagine lining up against of a team of Maoris as they're doing the hakka in front of you. Scary stuff.

(I guess I have to face it, EVERYTHING reminds me of some Monty Pythons skit or a cartoon! LOL )

Life's a farce, what can I say?

The rugby scene in Monty Python's the Meaning of Life really sums that one up for ya!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzeeaEsIFLs

BRILLIANT!!!

It's fairly popular with rugby players and those who dislike American football.

"Men play football. Real men play rugby."

The footballers, of course, dislike it intensely. {big gap-toothed rugby grin smiley goes here)

And send it to TR. There's plenty of times it could be used.

Football is a gentleman?s game played by hooligans, and Rugby is a hooligans? game played by gentlemen.

Or so the saying goes. That, of course, refers to football as defined by the Known World excluding the USA.

I thought they merged with the NFL decades ago.



People who think hockey is only about the fights are the same ones who think auto racing is only about the wrecks. I'd much rather watch hockey or 'soccer / football' than basketball, and I'd much rather watch golf than baseball. Baseball is for insomniacs.

Call me back when NASCAR season is over; I've got a fantasy team to run into the ground.

you crack me up!

Clarification: AFL - Australian Football League > http://www.afl.com.au/

I don't think that hockey games are all about the fights but they are a bit of a bonus, I just like hockey. Fights do tend to wind up the fans though, you often hear the commentators saying so during a good scrap!

I'm guilty.
Wrecks and brawls are the only reasons I'd watch them.
Otherwise, especially with auto racing, I'd end up denting the wall with my forehead.

How's that website of yours? Did you get it sorted?

I've started an off-line overhaul that I'll use next season. I can reduce the abundance of color and some of the overly "busy" issues, but the basic information being conveyed requires keeping some of the features that annoyed TR respondents.