Electric Six - Gay Bar

...does this really need explanation?

Mama Said Knock You Out

Hockey.



That's right. I said hockey.




I know I said this blog wasn't going to be about sports or what have you. But fuck off. It's my blog, and I'll blog about whatever I want to blog about. It's up to my blog discretion to choose what is blog worthy. So go blog yourself you bloggy blog blog blog blog blog blog.

I really hate that word.

Moving on.

Hockey.

Hockey rules because it has fighting. It's as integral to the game as the puck. Not only is it allowed, it's condoned. When the gloves drop, the refs suddenly become Mills Lane and monitor the fight instead of trying to stop it. Only when one player (or both sometimes) goes to the ground, do they move in and separate the two. In one video I watched, the ref actually bent down to move a helmet out of the way so one of them didn't trip over it and get hurt... (This, ladies and gentlemen, is what we call irony) Outside of boxing or MMA, it's probably the most violent sport. Which got me thinking...

More sports should involve fist fights.

I know what you're gonna say, every sport has it's fights. And while it's true that some sports do have brawls now and again (Baseball's bench clearers, Indiana and Detroit's basket-brawl that flowed up into the stands, Soccer's fan fight riots, the occasional NASCAR "angry about being put into the wall" slug fest and so on). But those sports are already exciting. Well... minus NASCAR.
The only people who watch NASCAR by choice either have too many chromosomes, or not enough. I'm thinking more about boring "sports" like golf, tennis, etc.

C'mon... how amazing would it be to see Venus Williams hurdle the net and brain Anna Kournikova with her racket? Or to see Phil "Always the bridesmaid, never the bride" Mickelson spear Tiger Woods as he's about to make his championship putt on the 18th green?

Maybe I just enjoy senseless violence because I'm a man.

Or maybe the fact that the O'Reily Factor is on TV is making me crave watching someone's face get beaten into a fleshy pulp.

But either way... sports could learn a thing or two from Hockey. And that thing is how to bleed more often, and more efficiently. Until then... keep playing. And keep smiling.