ESPN toughest sports...

[Blue Meanie]

Agree, or disagree... Personally I fail to see how some get in. Baseball harder than soccer?

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/sportSkills

[obob]

It tends to show American Sports as being the toughest. Can't say I agree with any of it to be honest apart from Boxing as the Toughest.

Actually, Pole Vault.

[deevlash]

MMA would win this surely, broken arms, KO's submissions? Boxing does have the added stupidity of repeatedly punching people in the head and having standing 8 counts though.

How is soccer even listed? its basically non contact aside from some overly gay play acting and the odd act of brutality outwith the rules of the game.

[Blue Meanie]

Oh, I dunno... Running for 90 minutes. You may not like the sport, BUT you do have to be fit to play it, especially in today's leagues. They cover quite a few miles in that 90 minutes. Oh, and it baseball is in it, then cricket should be, especially with the fact the fielders don't have cows attached to their hands.

[deevlash]

I love football but its not overly tough as these things go a hard charging midfielder barely does a 10k's worth of movement in an hour and a half with a 15 minute break half way through. Cricket and baseball aren't tough, fat fks like flintoff can play it ffs.

[Blue Meanie]

That was my point about Baseball... How can it be tougher than football? All they do is stand still, tt a ball, then run round a diamond...

[mickk]

Nice to now Cheerleading is a sport, not to tough though at least it beat fishing

[spikeyhead]

How come billiards is more dangerous than fishing. Falling in the river, being bitten by a pike. But how the fk can you get injured playing billiards, unless you end up in a fight cos you're playing for dodgy bets in a back street place.

[deevlash]

mickk said:

Nice to now Cheerleading is a sport, not to tough though at least it beat fishing

fishing is bloody hard for the fish!

[okgo]

The thing many people forget or don't notice about football injuries and taclkes, is that often two people are running near on as fast as they can then collide. Its like being hit with something very heavy in the shins when that happens.

Its not the contact, its the speed of contact that really is the issue..

MMA for me though.

[Luke Pearson]

ESPN Office Line Backer, Probably one of the toughest sports around.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=EV_RmRdR7r4

ETA: http://youtube.com/watch?v=CD0PvlytTNs&feature...

Edited by Luke Pearson on Saturday 19th July 13:25

[KingRichard]

okgo said:

The thing many people forget or don't notice about football injuries and taclkes, is that often two people are running near on as fast as they can then collide. Its like being hit with something very heavy in the shins when that happens.

Its not the contact, its the speed of contact that really is the issue..

MMA for me though.

Shin pads? Someone put it rather well the other day... Lawn Fairies

Would go with MMA being pretty tough, and good old rugger! You always feel fked for a good few days after a game.

Oh, can I also vote for Women's Hockey too? Went training with them once... fk!

[okgo]

KingRichard said:

okgo said:

The thing many people forget or don't notice about football injuries and taclkes, is that often two people are running near on as fast as they can then collide. Its like being hit with something very heavy in the shins when that happens.

Its not the contact, its the speed of contact that really is the issue..

MMA for me though.

Shin pads? Someone put it rather well the other day... Lawn Fairies

Would go with MMA being pretty tough, and good old rugger! You always feel fked for a good few days after a game.

Oh, can I also vote for Women's Hockey too? Went training with them once... fk!

Surley mens hockey?

Like womens, just with more power and speed, I played county feild hockey for 5 years and never really got injured.

Although I broke a few bones of other peoples with the ball

[Ianeire]

Hurling is among the toughest sports.

[5pen]

The list tries to measure 'tough' as in 'difficult', rather than 'how likely you are to be injured'. Probably an impossible and pointless exercise.

BTW - Flintoff may be a big lad, but there are plenty of blokes who can only dream about being as 'fat' as him (see also Frank Lampard). In any case, Cricket could be classed as tough whichever way you look at it - it's highly skilled and batting against 90mph bowlers is not without danger.

PS - What's MMA?

[okgo]

Mixed Martial Arts.

So many people mean Cage fighting, blood is usually flowing by end of the first round

[RichBurley]

The ESPN rates different attributes out of ten, then adds them up. But it fails to notice that some attributes are more important thatn others. Not only that, but the usefulness of an attritbute varies from sport to sport. If one of the sports had an attribute of 10.0 out of 10.0, then to acheive that skills well would be very hard, and should imply that that sport is tougher than many others.

So there!

[tumbleweed]

good too see ice hockey up there its not a easy sport at all

[okgo]

tumbleweed said:

good too see ice hockey up there its not a easy sport at all

Theres few sports that are easy to be good at.

[BJG1]

American football is full of fat people