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Americans watch Hurling for the first time
TheTruth1983
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"It's like field hockey, except they beat the crap out of each other"
It's the best sport in the world
"It's like field hockey, except they beat the crap out of each other"
It's the best sport in the world
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I think I prefer Curling.
I realise comments like these may be tongue-in-cheek, but they still irk me, especially considering the fact NFL players have suffered permanent brain injury during their careers, resulting in recent suicides. It really isn't rugby for little girls.
Sorry, I didn't realise that. And yes, my comment was tongue in cheek, no offense meant.
It's not that different from Lacrosse.
It's faster.
I remember showing clips of Tipperary halting Kilkenny's 5 in a row attempt to the primary school children in France. They were fascinated by it.
Used to play the female equivalent myself, I ended up with some amount of bruises!
Not quite as funny as the UK twitter reaction to Armagh and Donegal though.
Yep. That's one of ours. Although maybe not as common as it was in the '90s.
Oh brother!
I just read about Lacrosse on wiki. Its apparently a game invented by the Iroquois native Americans, and early forms of the game involved hundreds of people in games which sometimes lasted for days.
Hurling has prehistoric, Celtic roots, but the earliest recorded examples in Ireland also have the game involving hundreds of people in games which lasted for days. Interesting that two separate peoples on opposite sides of the Atlantic came up with something so similar.
Hurling is better though.
You forgot basketball, or netball as we call it here.
Shinty, anyone? Makes 'Rollerball' look like bingo night at the old folks home.
There are actually Gaelic Football and Hurling leagues in the US so it would appear that they are taking to it.
Weird
The football final was played in New York in 1947. Kerry and Cavan.
I dunno.. they seem pretty matched in speed.
Here's highlights from university-level lacrosse. Just the first 2 minutes of that video will give you an idea of how fast the game moves.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E28Hho5BMd8
Up The Mayo
I saw my one and only game of shinty on a Glorious day in 2012. It was Newtonmore v Kingussie. Great game.
Kingussie won something like 20 championships in a row in recent times.
Most NFL players end up with brain injury, it's just a matter of severity. It really is a high impact sport. It's debatable whether all the armor even helps or if it does more harm than good. They feel invincible, so they just hit that much harder than they would in rugby. But they're not invincible. F=(1/2)mv^2 is the same whether you've got a helmet on or not, and when m is 300lbs and v is 20mph, that's a lot.