Damn, you Swedes know how to rock a hockey rink!

Alright, I always considered myself hardcore when it comes to hockey. I passionately follow NHL, AHL, ECHL, Olympics and some of the local highschool teams in my area. I've taken part in a few hat trick tossings in my day, but not even Al Sobotka has anything on what went down at a Swedish AIK game the other day.

Swedish hockey fans delay match with dildo downpour

Yes you read that right. Here's a video too. Can someone who speaks swedish tell me what they're chanting at 4:45 when the big blowup dick "pops" up behind the banner that says Bend Over Bitch!

Anyway, love your passion for the greatest game in the world.

 

I'm not the biggest ice hockey fan - I'm afraid I spent too long playing the more mundane version and it stole my twisted little heart away - but that's fucking awesome. I wish people would pull shit like this at AFL matches. (Aussie rules, not the pussy American version. An american footballer would die at an Aussie Rules match. )

 

^^And another point for why hockey is the greatest cross-cultural sport ever. There's only one way to play it, fast and furious. Everyone in every country uses the same amount of padding. Though, I do like the larger ice surfaces the European/World leagues use, and I like the physicality of the North American leagues. Plus, what other major sport allows you to engage in bare knuckle boxing with your opponent and not get fined/ejected/arrested for it? Though I think that's more exclusive to Canadian and American leagues than others.

 

Damn straight. Who needs armour? I mean seriously, have you seen the amount of padding Americans use? It's not like their game even needs it. Play never seems to last more than 20 second between whistles getting blown and they never barrel into each other or anything. They're pussies!

*ahem* This has been your generic Aussie Rules > American Football rant for the day, happily provided by a woman who, ironically, doesn't even like football.

 

But it doesn't make it any less true. Have you seen how us big, tough Americans love to dance like homos after delivering such earth shattering hits on other big hulking juicers decked out in full body armor? And then they go skipping off the field to congratulate each other with ass slappings all around. Yeah, give me blood on the ice over that pussy shit any day.

 

See, now I read that as... "Yeah, give me blood from the arse over that pussy any day.

 

I watch football (american), but that's because it's a social event here. You get a group of guys together, a large quantity of cheap beer, some nachos, pizza, and pick a team to root for.

 

Some angry mom wrote in to the newspaper a couple weeks ago complaining about how Rugby is an 'ancient sport of 40 or 50 years ago', and how hard her kids in the football team work while still getting good marks and juggling jobs (which isn't true, they're the punks who keep vandalizing the town and antagonizing the city councillor. And New Brunswick is the stupidest province in Canada), to the point where they're throwing up.

I was upset, because Rugby is definitely NOT an ancient sport of 40 or 50 years ago, nor is it less extreme than Western Hemisphere football in anyway. Sort of annoyed me.

I considered writing a response, but the high school sports coach is also the mayor, so I decided against.

 

Finally, the truth has been spoken! I love rugby, especially the predatory tactics employed in the game's strategy.
During one game, the opposing team saw how great a player our Hooker was, and decided to take him out of the game. They broke his nose so he'd have to sit out due to him being a blood hazard. You know, diseases (meh!).
So much fun...I played soccer for eight years and never had as much fun as when I played rugby.

 

The same strategy can be found in hockey. Casual observers who don't take the time to get to know the game better see fighting in hockey and call it pointless and barbaric, when actually it's deployed in the exact same manner as Gross described in rugby. If your team's "skill" players are making things difficult for your opponent and they send out a shadow to harrass him, you send out your enforcer to start a fight. Hopefully your enforcer wins the fight, causing the other team's checkers to lay off your skill guys, thus giving them more room on the ice to make plays. It's fun watching the coaches standing above the players on the benches like old war generals deploying their soldiers in response to any given situation throughout the game.

Another strategy is to send out your agitator to harrass the other team's skill player and goad him into taking a stupid penalty. Now, not only do you have a man advantage from the power play, you've also neutralized your opponent's most effective weapon for the next two minutes. Worst case scenario: the two players both take penalties and you play 4 on 4 for 2 minutes with even more open ice for your skill players to work with, and again, your opponent is down one forward.

 

I don't understand rugby... then again, I don't know of a single rugby team in the local region. I doubt I'd play since, well, I'm really fuckin' lazy, but I wouldn't mind going and watching a game if there was a local team.

 

When I played soccer in high school, some of us would use the strategy mentioned by GrimmHatter and Grossenschwamm. There were 3 of us (myself, the other fullback, and the sweeper). As long as you had your “eyes on the ball”, it was very hard to get called on a personal foul. It’s amazing how getting sandwiched between two 180lbs fullback running at full tilt can take a good forward out of the game. Never on purpose, of course. We were concentrating on the ball and didn’t realize that the collision was imminent. . Or a slide tackle just above the shin guards is always accidental. And when your running full tilt, your arms are pumping hard. It’s not your fault if you punch someone in the solar plexus when you accidently run into them while trying to get the ball.:wink:

 

There was never an opportunity to play Rugby. I always thought it would be fun to play. Now I'm too old and break too easily, but I'd be willing to enjoy the bone snapping sound from the sideline.

 

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