Sports fans have debated this topic for years.

There has never been a conclusion to this argument and probably never will.

It is difficult to provide facts as oppose to personal opinion. Every sport or all athletic competition requires a different skill set.

I have been an athlete for the majority of my life and as I kid, I played soccer in grade school. I had fun playing, but like most Americans it didn’t appeal to me as much as Football, Basketball and Baseball did.

I can recall spending some time in Germany and watching several soccer matches, it was then that I gained a strong appreciation for the sport. It was then that I learned the term American football.

I can say the same for the sport of Hockey.

Hockey isn’t played in the inner cities due to economics, the cost of equipment, getting to and from the arena, the specialized coaching, etc. There are a tremendous amount of foreign players and the American players are from the northeast, Northern Midwest or the state of Colorado.

I’ll even go as far as to say that a large number of American hockey players live in or near the cities of the “Original Six.”

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