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Topoisomerase
Apr 12, 2007

CULTURE OF VICIOUSNESS

Insanite posted:

As a sports fan, all of the fighting seems a little ridiculous (and can you imagine the media reaction if the same were to happen in the NBA or NFL!). It also scratches some sort of weird pro-wrestling kind of itch. Do hardcore hockey folk think of it the same way, or is there more depth, imagined or not, to it?

Also, say I haven't paid the NHL much attention for the better part of the last decade. I'm local to the Bruins, but they don't excite me. I demand that my sports teams have a certain weird-rear end je ne sais quoi about them. Who should I cheer for?

Varied opinions on fighting - I've never thought it was that great for the most part and the pro/semi-pro game in North America is the only place where it's really "allowed" to happen (by that I mean that the players don't get tossed from the game if it's a one on one fair fight and only get 5 min majors). In the amateur game even at the collegiate and international levels it's generally not a good strategic move cause you lose the guys for the rest of the game plus potentially additional games.

Someone might be able to answer your second question better if you give an example of a sports team in a different major sport that you like.

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