• PAO_RT_IN_THE_KISSER@alien.topB
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      1 year ago

      An NHL player had his heart stop and was practically dead for a few seconds on the ice and when he became conscious in the locker room the first thing he asked was when he could go back out on the ice. Hockey players are fucking wild

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        1 year ago

        This may sound weird but As someone who played high level hockey growing up I can say that Playing hockey gives you some sort of adrenaline and high that no other sport compares too. I never really thought about it until now, but i think it has something to do with the speed of the game and the ability to just glide

    • vancity-boi-in-tdot@alien.topB
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      1 year ago

      unpopular opinion and i grew up a big NHL fan (now i 9/10 times I’ll be watching NFL), but I remember a joke bill burr said about soccer and can’t help but think this is true for hockey as well.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ov3hZvYTmQU sadly this is the only clip I found of what I heard before (with a lot of non-relevant content).

      It was a response to a user email from a European or something, about why America was so bad at soccer on the world stage:

      “the day american black people give a shit about soccer, that is the end of of all of you”

      Hilarious joke and probably slightly racist but also probably true. No direspect to hockey players who are tough SOB’s, but the best athletes in the world are not in hockey, they are NFL, NBA, track, MLB, etc etc where black Americans athletes dominate (a trend that grew every decade after the 60’s and the end of segregation). Income gaps are probably a barrier to entry since hockey is a very expensive sport, but also the fact that just like soccer, black Americans athletes don’t really give a shit about hockey (sadly).

      Remember when they gave a shit about boxing? Golden era of heavyweights, before slowly losing appeal around mike tyson and the best athletes from that group migrated to greener pastures that they cared more about(golden era of basketball in the 90’s, golden era of nfl probably now, I don’t know much about MLB but their golden era was probably after jackie robinson was able to play).