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I don't know, because it's boring? I mean it's really just a matter of taste if you enjoy watching hockey or not. Me personally, I find it very boring, but then again I also find soccer, basketball, and baseball boring also. Football is the only sport I care about.



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Hockey is my second favorite sport to watch, behind football. I can pretty much care less about baseball, basketball, and soccer.



Since when is the NHL not popular in the US? There is a huge following, especially in places where it snows.  I live in the middle of the desert in the US and there are tons of NHL fans and buds and I go watch NCAA games.  It's my 3rd fav sport.



Angelus said:
TheLastStarFighter said:
Angelus said:
I've never really understood the appeal of hockey. I mean don't get me wrong, it's far from the worst sport out there, it's certainly pretty entertaining to watch as there's never lack of something happening. Still.......every time I see it I can't help but think "this is just a bunch of dudes who where too pussy to become boxers or fighters, but still wanted a profession that allows them to constantly beat the shit out of each other"

You clearly no nothing about it.  it's not about fighting, it's a skill game.  It's very much like soccer, excepet you do need to be tougher to play it because you will take contanct and fight through scrums.  It perhaps takes more skill than any other activity, combining speed, strength, reflexes, quick decsision making, hand co-ordination, balance and the intelligience to anticipate plays and make the correct one.  People play it to score goals or to stop them, and to compete to win.  Fighing has almost nothing to do with it.


No, I really don't. Won't act like I do. Just watch the occasional game with a friend who's way into hockey. And even if it may not be representative of hockey as a whole, all that ever seems to happen in the games I've seen is the players constantly getting into it, breaking up the actual playing every other minute.

Don't even get me started on soccer lol. Most boring sport in the world

Going by what you dislike in Hockey (the breaking up of play) wouldn't you find Baseball the most boring sport in the world since the guy hits the ball then runs to a base; rinse lather repeat? I mean Soccer has a LOT more going on in it then baseball does.



Cause of the Ice part...

this is hockey in the rest of the world









 

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A_C_E said:

Going by what you dislike in Hockey (the breaking up of play) wouldn't you find Baseball the most boring sport in the world since the guy hits the ball then runs to a base; rinse lather repeat? I mean Soccer has a LOT more going on in it then baseball does.

I do in fact find Baseball VERY boring lol

Basketball is my favorite sport. I also like Football and Tennis a lot. And all kinds of racing (except NASCAR)



NiKKoM said:

Cause of the Ice part...

this is hockey in the rest of the world







The KHL in Russia is on ice and the most popular sport in that country. Europe has hockey leagues. You are crazy. And this was asking about America, not you soccer loving plebs.



Angelus said:
A_C_E said:

Going by what you dislike in Hockey (the breaking up of play) wouldn't you find Baseball the most boring sport in the world since the guy hits the ball then runs to a base; rinse lather repeat? I mean Soccer has a LOT more going on in it then baseball does.

I do in fact find Baseball VERY boring lol

Basketball is my favorite sport. I also like Football and Tennis a lot. And all kinds of racing (except NASCAR)

Knew it!!! Do you watch F1?



A_C_E said:
Angelus said:
A_C_E said:

Going by what you dislike in Hockey (the breaking up of play) wouldn't you find Baseball the most boring sport in the world since the guy hits the ball then runs to a base; rinse lather repeat? I mean Soccer has a LOT more going on in it then baseball does.

I do in fact find Baseball VERY boring lol

Basketball is my favorite sport. I also like Football and Tennis a lot. And all kinds of racing (except NASCAR)

Knew it!!! Do you watch F1?


Yes I do. Since I was about 5 years old 



All these hockey fans and hardly any post in the nhl thread...