As a follow-up to a question I was asked by Alan Bass during my "Beyond the Bleachers" interview, this is the Top 10 reasons why hockey is better than golf. Enjoy....
10. There are no goalies protecting the hole in golf...where's the challenge in that?
9. Any "sport" in which you can "compete" with another person in both an activity and a beer-drinking/cigar smoking contest, is not a sport.
8. When a 12-year-old girl and/or 65-year-old grandfather can adequately keep pace with a well-conditioned male in his early 20's in a "sporting event." The word "sport" should not even be considered in the activity description.
7. Hockey players are taught strategies such as trapping, dump-and-chase, backchecking, and forechecking. In golf, you hit a ball, you chase it, and then you hit it again. Joke.
6. In hockey, a shot is taken and immediately 10 well-conditioned athletes race for the loose puck. In golf, an overweight, beer-guzzling, school teacher in his late 50's strolls through some grass to hunt it down or just hops in his cart and pushes the gas pedal.
5. When was the last time you saw "golfer No. 1" throw a solid shoulder check into "golfer No. 2" on the way to the 18th green because "golfer No. 2" slashed "golfer No. 1's" teammate in the back of the leg on the way to the clubhouse?
4. In golf, the crowd is discouraged from making any noise during a players' shot. In hockey, the crowd noise is equivalent to placing your ear against the two 18-inch sub-woofers under your best friends' car seat.
3. In order to play golf, you really only need to have two arms and be able to walk and/or drive a cart. Try strapping on a pair of skates without ever having skated before...
2. I'd like to see Vijay Singh stand toe-to-toe with Laraque, Parros, Boogard, or Chara.
1. In hockey, "dump and chase" is a play that requires significant skill and movement. In golf, it requires a fresh roll of toilet paper and a cart to flee the scene.
Honorable mention: Simply put, Sidney Crosby > Tiger Woods.
So, before Tiger Woods decides to say that he "doesn't think anyone watches hockey,” perhaps he should consider that he is a golfer, and being a golfer is a far cry from being an athlete.
Article posted in full at Experiencing the Evolution.
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2 months ago
Couldnt agree more, your the man Eric
from 2 months ago
Thanks, i usually get more disagreement than agreement when this topic is brought up, but it's good to see at least 1 supporter out there.
2 months ago
ahaha you got this from my interview!! glad you made an article out of this, i thought u were hilarious
2 months ago
How did you manage to limit it to ten? Heck, George Parros might be greater than Tiger Woods.
2 months ago
golf is a sport just the people who do it arent athletes ever hockey is way way more fun to watch than golf but golf is fun to play smoke and drink and chew and ur still a good player the only other sport that has that is baseball and that was Babe Ruth
golf is for any one who wants to have a beer and smoke and do something its kinda of like fishing
2 months ago
Next time you go fishing with your buddies, make the claim that whoever catches the LEAST amount of fish ultimately wins the contest.... welcome to the world of golf
2 months ago
Haha great article! However, if 10 players are all racing after the puck at the same time, both teams need to rethink their strategy. Passing and defense win games.
I know your point and agree completely though. Go pens!
2 months ago
Real men don't wear ice skates, they wear plaid pants.
2 months ago
Real men are proud of the name their momma gave them, and don't hide it by using an initial.
-E.Matthew
from 2 months ago
Not if it is Jackhole.
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