I'm sure nobody out there knows this yet, but Dennis Miller has a sports show on the VS channel called "Sports Unfiltered". I've never heard of it before last night, when I caught a round table discussion with Bill Romanowski (NFL), Forrest Griffin (UFC), Jeremy Roenick (NHL), and the great Larry Holmes (Boxing). Each professional athlete started off by explaining why their respected sport is the toughest.
Romanowski said basically "The NFL is toughest because each collision is like a car crash." Then he talked about getting injected with black sheep cells. (seriously)
Forrest Griffin (who had some great lines throughout the show) said "MMA is toughest because look at the clothes these guys are wearing, they get paid a lot more than me." Followed by "In Football and Hockey, they get into it on the field take off their pads and throw down, in MMA, we just skip all the foreplay!"
Jeremy Roenick (who was wearing a Christmas hat) said "NHL is toughest because we have collisions like football, but are opponents are also carrying weapons."
Larry Holmes (who had the ugliest sport jacket I've ever seen) said "In boxing, when you're at the top, everyone is gunning for you."
I thought is was a pretty good show, and a good discussion, but it got me thinking, what about the sports not represented? Bull riding, for example was breifly mentioned by Dennis Miller, has to be in the discussion.
I'm going to have to go with Bull Riding, just because I've watched a few of the PRS's Worst Wrecks shows on VS. channel. What's your vote? What sports am I missing?
wow! now that's a good question, and a hard one to answer! i think that they are all though sports, each one in there own right. i wouldn't really compare any of them to each other based on toughness alone. each sport requires differnet skills, a huge difference in the outcome that we percieve as tough. for me having to judge one over the other..........well, i won't do it.
How about this then, what would you like to do least? Run through the line of scrimmage with Ray Lewis headed right at you? Take a kick in the head from Chuck Liddel? Get slammed into the boards by Mark Messier? Take a left hook from Roy Jones Jr.? Or hop on the back of Little Yellow Jacket?
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Speaking as a Brit who played rugby in high school in the UK. That'd definately have to be in the top two or three category. But it all comes down to semantics in the end.
Whichever way you look at it they're all tough sports to partcipate in. And the likelihood is that you can just as easily be killed in one as you are in another.
I'm all for going out on a field and crashing into people; even lacing up gloves to go a couple of rounds can't be that bad. But it takes a special kind of crazy to climb on the back of a 1500 pound bull who may or may not have a sense of humor about it...
Last edited by GoPurple6933 on December 14th at 10:29 PM.
I'm an avid sport fan, but I'm a college football fan first. I'm a Iowa Hawkeyes, Dallas Cowboys, Chicago Bulls, and LA Angels fan. I also love the UFC, and think boxing is a dying sport. I'm a horrible golfer, but I like to drink while driving a golf cart and the golf course is the only place that lets me do that. I live in Milwaukee now after living in Iowa and Long Beach, CA. And without a doubt, Wisconsin people are the undisputable kings of tailgating. Even Brewer games people tailgate like it's a college bowl game.
