Which Sport Has the Toughest Players?

[Average Joe]

This guy ranks them

1-Austraian Rules Football
2-Hockey
3-Football
4-Soccer
5-Basketball
6-Baseball
7-Nascar
8-Golf

http://www.sportingnews.com/blog/Parkov/60189

I disagree, soccer players are the biggest wimps I have ever seen.
If someone so much as touches them on the shin they go sprawling and flying with arms flailing and lie writhing on the ground for 5 minutes until they are carried off the field.
One minute later, they're back in the game looking normal?

[tornado]

Soccer players are a bunch of prima donnas.
Linemen in football labor in obscurity (except for the big paychecks) and come off the field bleeding after every dirve.
I think they should be #1.

[mike radigan]

1-football quarterbacks
2-football wide receivers
3-football linemen
4-rugby
5-Australian rules football
6-hockey
7-lacross
8-basketball

[Fetz86]

hockey
football
rugby
lacross
basketball
soccer
baseball

[MacabreMob]

1-SIU Basketball Thugs
2-Austraian Rules Football
3-Hockey
4-Football
5-Soccer
6-Basketball
7-Baseball
8-Nascar
9-Golf

[tornado]

1-the SIU practice players
2-the police in Carbondale
3-the bouncers in the bars in Carbondale
4-the Saluki players' girlfriends
5-the Saluki cheerleaders
6-the security guards at the unemployment lines in Carbondale

[Long-Hair's Lunatics]

Re: Which Sport Has the Toughest Players?

This guy ranks them

...soccer players are the biggest wimps I have ever seen.
If someone so much as touches them on the shin they go sprawling and flying with arms flailing and lie writhing on the ground for 5 minutes until they are carried off the field.
One minute later, they're back in the game looking normal?

I totally agree. I hate soccer.

[georgethedog]

1-football quarterbacks
2-football wide receivers
3-football linemen
4-rugby
5-Australian rules football
6-hockey
7-lacross
8-basketball

Sorry Mike... I played some football and rugby. Rugby and Australian rules football tie for #1. Our football has all the padding and face-guards while the other two have virtually nothing to protect the face and body.

[mike radigan]

1-football quarterbacks
2-football wide receivers
3-football linemen
4-rugby
5-Australian rules football
6-hockey
7-lacross
8-basketball

Sorry Mike... I played some football and rugby. Rugby and Australian rules football tie for #1. Our football has all the padding and face-guards while the other two have virtually nothing to protect the face and body.

Yeah, but in big time football quarterbackbacks and receivers get nailed by somebody running flat out. Quarterbacks get nailed by 300 lb hulks and receivers get nailed while exposed in the air.

[Roll with the Funches]

1-football quarterbacks
2-football wide receivers
3-football linemen
4-rugby
5-Australian rules football
6-hockey
7-lacross
8-basketball

Sorry Mike... I played some football and rugby. Rugby and Australian rules football tie for #1. Our football has all the padding and face-guards while the other two have virtually nothing to protect the face and body.

Yeah, but in big time football quarterbackbacks and receivers get nailed by somebody running flat out. Quarterbacks get nailed by 300 lb hulks and receivers get nailed while exposed in the air.

I have to disagree. American Football linemen are running into each other every single play. Quarterbacks have tons of ridiculous rules to protect them now. Wide Receivers do take some wicked hits, but a wide receiver is going to get hit really hard on average maybe once a game. Running backs take WAY more hits than wide receivers. I don't know how I'd rank other sports, but for American football toughness, I'd go:
1.Linemen
2.Running Backs
3.Linebackers
4.Safeties/Tight Ends
5.WR/Corners
6.Kickers and Punters

Also, special teams players can really take a beating on kickoffs since they are at full speed when they collide.

[georgethedog]

1-football quarterbacks
2-football wide receivers
3-football linemen
4-rugby
5-Australian rules football
6-hockey
7-lacross
8-basketball

Sorry Mike... I played some football and rugby. Rugby and Australian rules football tie for #1. Our football has all the padding and face-guards while the other two have virtually nothing to protect the face and body.

Yeah, but in big time football quarterbackbacks and receivers get nailed by somebody running flat out. Quarterbacks get nailed by 300 lb hulks and receivers get nailed while exposed in the air.

Yeah, whatever...

[mike radigan]

Joe Theismann quarterback
Darryl Stingley receiver
Jim Otto lineman

quite a few on the current injury report:

http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/injuries;_ylt=AjtCiCypHD3UxgqqfGU8sORDubYF

All of these might argue with you. That said you are entitled to your opinion as I am mine. Have a nice day.

[MacabreMob]

ok - I am bored.

Move this thread to where it belongs.. in the General Sports Dicsussion.

Tks Mods.

[That Guy]

Re: Which Sport Has the Toughest Players?

This guy ranks them

1-Austraian Rules Football
2-Hockey
3-Football
4-Soccer
5-Basketball
6-Baseball
7-Nascar
8-Golf

http://www.sportingnews.com/blog/Parkov/60189

I disagree, soccer players are the biggest wimps I have ever seen.
If someone so much as touches them on the shin they go sprawling and flying with arms flailing and lie writhing on the ground for 5 minutes until they are carried off the field.
One minute later, they're back in the game looking normal?

Hey AJ, when's the last time you've actually gotten drilled with the ball in the face or groin; elbowed in the face; or cleated anywhere on your body. Oh, and try actually having to get your body in shape to run for 90 minutes with no stoppages for timeouts, or moving the down markers.

When's the last time you've actually watched soccer?

[That Guy]

Soccer players are a bunch of prima donnas.

Prima donnas, right. See anything missing from this photo? Oh yeah, that would be pads and a facemask...