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Fights in Professional Sports?
Posted: Tue Oct 08, 2013 12:28 pm
by CDN_Merlin
This happens every year in Hockey. Lots of players getting injured because of fighting. Should it be banned from professional sports?
I'd like to hear your thoughts.
Re: Fights in Professional Sports?
Posted: Tue Oct 08, 2013 12:41 pm
by CUDA
I like how the NBA handles it. you leave the bench suspension.
baseball on the other hand act like a bunch of third graders. they should suspend anyone that was not on field at the time of the incident. there is no need for them to come in from the center field dugout. hell they couldn't run that fast to participate if they tried. those fights only last a few seconds
Re: Fights in Professional Sports?
Posted: Tue Oct 08, 2013 12:49 pm
by Foil
Banned how?
...By the federal government?
...By the league?
...By some other sporting governing body?
CUDA wrote:I like how the NBA handles it. you leave the bench suspension.
Agreed.
Re: Fights in Professional Sports?
Posted: Tue Oct 08, 2013 1:05 pm
by callmeslick
I like the way college hockey handles it........out for the game, and out for next. Repeat offenders can potentially get season suspensions, I think, but can't remember that one ever coming down.
Re: Fights in Professional Sports?
Posted: Tue Oct 08, 2013 1:19 pm
by Heretic
Back in the day it was called unsportsmanlike conduct. Get into many fights you were off the team.
Re: Fights in Professional Sports?
Posted: Tue Oct 08, 2013 1:40 pm
by Top Gun
I don't think it has a place in most sports, but it's part of the fabric of hockey, and I love me a good fight there.
Re: Fights in Professional Sports?
Posted: Tue Oct 08, 2013 1:51 pm
by callmeslick
it's only part of the 'fabric' of professional hockey.
Re: Fights in Professional Sports?
Posted: Tue Oct 08, 2013 1:57 pm
by callmeslick
fights would, perhaps, add something to Polo.
Re: Fights in Professional Sports?
Posted: Tue Oct 08, 2013 2:01 pm
by CUDA
and rhythmic gymnastics..... with cooking oil
Re: Fights in Professional Sports?
Posted: Tue Oct 08, 2013 3:30 pm
by CDN_Merlin
To me there is to much potential for serious injury. And who wants to end someone's career because of a fight? Crosby almost ended his career because someone thought elbowing him in the head was what hockey is about.
Re: Fights in Professional Sports?
Posted: Tue Oct 08, 2013 3:50 pm
by Top Gun
I was personally fine with that, because Crosby is a total ★■◆●.
Re: Fights in Professional Sports?
Posted: Wed Oct 09, 2013 12:42 am
by DoTheGeek
Of course they should. They're the only thing worth watching.
Re: Fights in Professional Sports?
Posted: Wed Oct 09, 2013 5:29 am
by callmeslick
the Crosby example is interesting........actually, old-school fighting may have prevented that, because the person who threw an elbow at Sid the Kid would have been likely hospitalized by the team goon within 5 minutes of play, and when those are the unwritten rules, folks think twice about cheap hits.
Re: Fights in Professional Sports?
Posted: Wed Oct 09, 2013 5:44 am
by CDN_Merlin
I see the point of the old school ways. I'm just not a violence type of person and it's very hard for me to sit and watch as people continue to get severely injured because some guy wants to get the ans in the game.
These people are paid millions a year and there job is to play hockey and not fight. If all you want to do is fight and show off that part of you, join MMA or boxing.
Re: Fights in Professional Sports?
Posted: Wed Oct 09, 2013 11:49 am
by Heretic
CDN_Merlin wrote:I see the point of the old school ways. I'm just not a violence type of person and it's very hard for me to sit and watch as people continue to get severely injured because some guy wants to get the ans in the game.
These people are paid millions a year and there job is to play hockey and not fight. If all you want to do is fight and show off that part of you, join MMA or boxing.
Actually they higher some just because they like to fight they call them enforcers
Re: Fights in Professional Sports?
Posted: Thu Oct 10, 2013 9:42 am
by snoopy
I voted no. I'm also a big hockey fan.
I'm curious what you guys think of the Kessel approach in the pre season?
Re: Fights in Professional Sports?
Posted: Thu Oct 10, 2013 10:05 am
by CDN_Merlin
I didn't see it but from what I read it was uncalled for. I really don't believe that fighting has any business in professional sports unless that sports main function is fighting.
Re: Fights in Professional Sports?
Posted: Thu Oct 10, 2013 5:24 pm
by callmeslick
by the way, Merlin, as a Canadian, you surely must realize that the bulk of the danger in ice hockey is not the fights but the nature of the game. Folks are skating at full speed, swinging wooden sticks and careening into wooden side boards, metal goal posts and the ice itself. The game is a concussion or fracture waiting to happen, and always has been. Heck, when I was in college, I went to school with a fellow(Bob Miller) who was the last player in the NHL to resist wearing a helmet. For years before, NO ONE wore a helmet. Damn, goalies didn't start wearing facial protection until in 1960s.....think about that. Fighting can be curtailed, but you still have yourself a violent sport there.
Re: Fights in Professional Sports?
Posted: Fri Oct 11, 2013 2:42 am
by CDN_Merlin
I understand that point. That is part of the game. But fighting is not.
Re: Fights in Professional Sports?
Posted: Fri Oct 11, 2013 6:00 am
by snoopy
CDN_Merlin wrote:I didn't see it but from what I read it was uncalled for. I really don't believe that fighting has any business in professional sports unless that sports main function is fighting.
Go watch it... it's on youtube. My first reaction was "that's about what I'd do." He may have gone a bit far, but he let the guy know in no uncertain terms that he didn't want a fight.
If I was in the NHL... I wouldn't be interested in fighting anyone, but you sure can believe that I'd be looking to line people up for a big hit.
Re: Fights in Professional Sports?
Posted: Sun Oct 13, 2013 2:37 pm
by Isaac
If medical tech got better, football would be between two armed forces that try to move a ticking time bomb to the enemy end zone.