Most Demanding Sport?

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GamingChartzFTW said:

Kasz216 said:

Short term on the field deaths.

However what's the average lifespan of a soccer player?

Football builds up more permanent and long term damage.  Not to mention you have to putyourself in an unhealthy condition just to play.  (How big you get.)

If I dedicate time and effort and decide to search through the internet compiling a list of Football players who have gotten their lifespan drastically shortened, it would still be 'proportianally longer' than a similar gridiron list.

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

Most NFL players shorten their lifes due to 'high risk lifestyles'. There seem to be a disproportionate amount of murders, car accidents, drinking, drug use etc., compared to the average population. It is very unfortunate.

Kasz216

You're right about the "you have to putyourself in an unhealthy condition just to play.  (How big you get.)" part.
The focus on 'building up' the thorax and abdomen with fat and muscles, causes long term problems when the players are unable to 'alter' their bodies back to normal after they finish their professional careers. It's a sad thing to see all the fat slobs in interviews. How people choose to live their lives after ending their NFL careers does not relate to how dangerous it is playing the game.

I'm looking forward to continuing this discussion. Bye bye for now..

 

I love how you go and call any of our opinions on sports ethnocentric, biased, and generally ignorant because we are Americans and thus "only exposed to football", yet then base your own arguments on a claim that, by your logic, you should not have the experience or knowledge to make. That's a stereotype, jackass. Enjoy being pretentious in your reply.

Also "what I was doing" in my last post was providing a logical analogue to stickball's statement: His original claim was that he "thinks" football had that many deaths, you do not have to back up something that you think with empirical data.

Look, argue it any way you want, American Football is a contact sport with a high risk of paralyzing or lifeending spinal injury at any time. It may not me as physically taxing as soccer/football, but I do not doubt that it has proportionally more injuries as well as proportionally worse ones.