Most violent of the 4 main sports

[HoustonGM]

Look at it like, a tennis ball pegs you in the balls, face, or some where like that at full speed and you dont get a racket on it to protect yourself.

Who plays tennis without a racket?

There's like...no violence in tennis.

[filihok]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKWIZfXBWnE

sometimes the racket isn't fast enough

[nwuhockey]

I know you have to play it with a racket, but say the ball is comming at you at full speed, and for some reason you can not block it, and the ball slams you. Imagine that. Now I want you and someone to go try that. Tell me what it feels like, lol.

[filihok]

This one is better, not good, but better. And sideways

EDIT: Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQRlySnIcW0

[metsguy234]

I agree on Parnell being the greatest of all time btw. What a pitcher! He's something else.

Yep.

[HoustonGM]

I know you have to play it with a racket, but say the ball is comming at you at full speed, and for some reason you can not block it, and the ball slams you. Imagine that. Now I want you and someone to go try that. Tell me what it feels like, lol.

I'm sure it hurts, but that doesn't make tennis violent. A baseball hurts more and I'd bet hit by pitches happen more than the situation you described and baseball has contact plays like sliding and plays at the plate. Tennis is not violent. Yes, you can get hit with the ball and it'll hurt, but that doesn't make the sport violent.

[kellys11]

It's got to be football. Contact is 100% necessary. Hockey is a close second. Yes, there is fighting allowed, but there's less contact on a consistent basis.

Baseball afterwards because of things like hit batsmen and linedrives hitting pitchers. Basketball last because you get a foul for even touching the opponent.

Funny, though, that the most egregious violent act seen in my lifetime (in American professional sports) happened in basketball at the Palace at Auburn Hills.

Fighting is the smallest part of what makes hockey more violent.

There IS contact on every play in hockey too, not to the extent of football but definately there is contact continually in hockey.

The biggest difference I see that makes hockey more violent is hockey is played at a much faster pace which makes the contact of hits much harder and the equipment is harder than it is than in football which makes the chance of injury higher as well.

Plus you are carrying a weapon at all times and walking on blades.

You can't get a true sense of what is more violent unless you play both sports.

[kellys11]

I've been hit by my friends' tennis serves and my friends' pitches. The baseball hurts A LOT more

ps. awesome Gibby link.

[ewing6]

Nwu everyone else in the world but you plays tennis with a racket

[Slingshot]

Soccer is more violent than any of them.

[actionjackson]

I would have to say football on this. Granted hockey is violent, but it is straight foward, checking and fighting. Football when a fumble happens and there is a pile, we honestly dont know whats going on.

A great Offensive lineman for the Raiders, Don Mosebar actually had his eye poked out due to a fumble and had to retire. Not only this but many more instances where we dont see whats going on, but people are getting hurt.

I'd have to agree with most on football as number 1, but there is nothing straightforward about the player admiring his pass, coming across the middle of the ice and getting absolutely walloped to the ice on a blind side hit, or getting cross-checked from behind into the boards/glass or a knee-on-knee collision, or a spear that renders you more choirboy than hockey player and then of course there's getting "Bertuzzied". Since the lockout, with the new obstruction rules, the speed has gotten insane and ice is a very unforgiving surface, compared with grass or field turf and football doesn't have boards and glass (more forgiving in some rinks than others) surrounding the playing surface last I checked. However football has contact on every single play as dickay said and the vicious open-field hits are made even moreso by the fact that the receiver might be 3 or 4 feet off the ground when the hit is made, so it's number 1 by a slight margin over hockey. Basketball is next for me due to the frequency of contact under the hoop, which can be surprisingly vicious and then baseball. I love tennis, but c'mon. I doubt it's even number 10 on the list, of course I'm pretty sure nwuhockey was being facetious and funnin' us.

[filihok]

Rugby is much more violent than football.

At least according to the one season of rugby that I played

[OregonDuck1989]

I think Rugby is the most violent sport. But of the main 4 sports it's football.

[MichelleWie]

Is Hockey still considered a "main" sport?

[ragecage]

Rugby is much more violent than football.

At least according to the one season of rugby that I played

I agree with this if the discussion wasnt out of the main sports.