It really irked me today when....?

I used to call another player on a football team a five-letter word that begins with the letter "P" and ends with "Y" because he complained about some shots he took while being tackled. He was a receiver and I was the QB. Then, when I had my turn at wideout and got crunched a few times I gained a newly found sense of respect for him.

When non-participants cackle on about the perceived lack of toughness of a player writhing in pain its because they never had the bejesus knocked out of them.

I remember one night - while playing pick up basketball in my neighbors driveway - one of my other neighbors (Luke) and his younger brother (Wade) were there, and we were playing our usual "no-rules-allowed" brand of gutterball. The guy on whose property we were playing (Greg) got flustered and said that it was like a hockey game out there. To which Luke replied "Hockey is a p***y sport."

Well, it so happened that I was in the right place at the right time and Luke wasn't. So I threw an elbow to the side of his head and said something like "That usually happens in hockey." Wade was laughing his Avery off, even high-fiving me for the shot.

Again, the moral of the story is that its easy to shout from the stands.

I was once within the retailer and those youngsters they needed to be no less than eleven or 12 they usually have been walking across the retailer. The mothers and fathers did not even say whatever. I simply shake my head in disbelief Im 22 years historical and If I have been to run round in a shop my mother might have hit me. What is mistaken with mothers and fathers in these days they're worse than the children

When you look at professional sports, hockey seems to be one of the most masculine sports out there, think about it:

there's fighting, hitting, blood, etc...

from that, hockey is a "man's game." Fan, players, and coaches expect you to get up, shake it off, and get back out there...

i mean, when a basketball player falls down, his teammates and the OTHER team's teammates help him up. In hockey, they expect YOU to pick yourself up.

I mean, you are called a coward for wearing a visor! you are called a coward for backing down from a fight!

Look at Eric Lindros, after several concussions he still continued to "suck it up and play" which ultimately led to his demise...that is hockey: suck up and play.

Be a hockey official. You have never heard so many sexual proposals at a hockey game. Such as perfect strangers wanting to do things to me.

toughness is part of the game......in other words can`t take the heat get out of the kitchen