190Octane
Registered User
But how can you have any sort of emotion or suspense in a sport without the possibility of the opponents killing each other?
Think of what's going through the batter's mind...
The NASCAR driver's mind...
The quarterback's mind...
The striker's mind...
Nope, can't have any suspense or excitement in sports without the possibility of a fight. Heck, once they took fighting out of basketball, nobody watched. Ditto with soccer, err, football...
I understand completely, that's why I'm all about hard hits and passionate fights. I'm not all about someone like Boogard running around with no skill. I'm a big fan of tough guys with skill who will stand up for their teammates... I'm not a fan of a goon running around cheapshotting people and fighting scripted fights with no purpose.
I know that people are going to come in and say that the scripted fights have a purpose of firing up the team and that is crap. An Ivanans-Boogard fight might please fans of hockey fights but does that really swing momentum in a game? Real momentum swingers are when guys like Mark Bell or Jerome Iginla or Chris Kunitz or someone along those lines drops the mitts to get his team fired up.
That aspect of Iginla's games is why he's one of my favorite players when he's not playing the Ducks and I hate him when the Ducks are playing him.