I'm just wondering. Is it that hockey fans are more passionate about the game than other fans are about the sports they enjoy? Or is it something else?|||No, I think any fans get mad when that happens. I guess because hockey ratings and popularity have decreased so drastically lately, that the fans don't really stand for much more. Also, if you walk into a bar you could probably find (at least where I live) a handful of football fans, a handful of baseball fans, and a handful of basketball fans. You'd be lucky if you even found a hockey fan. Hockey tends to be the sport to take the most jokes and to be made fun of the most, kudos to the hockey fans who do stand up for their sport.|||No one wants there passion to be talked about negatively. That goes with sports, music, movies etc.|||Personally, I only get really cheesed when some hot head starts going on about how great a team is when they've never really watched them play! If they don't follow the game through out the season, I don't see how they can make an informed comment. For instance, my daughter's boyfriend is a Penguins "fan". Has he SEEN some of the stunts they've pulled against the Red Wings lately?? I think not.|||Go to other sports sections..And say something bad aboot their sport..See the responses you get..Even the wrasslin section..Tell them the "sport" is fake then count how many emails you get from irate Sports Entertainment fans.
Hockey fans are very passionate when talking hockey..That's why its great going to a game,or at a bar chatting aboot the sport.You could literally get into a fight if you disagree with another fan..How great is that?|||Because it's not the most popular spot in the US, and it pisses me off when people say hockey is gay or how football, baseball, or basketball is better, it's just an opinion. There are so many ignorant fu(ks in this world...|||I think most people who insult hockey have never actually watched the game and enjoyed it for what it is. So, when that person comes up to me and says something like "hockey is for whimps", I get pissed, because he has no idea what he's talking about. This applies to hockey more than any other major American sport, because everyone's seen football, baseball and basketball, and most people have played soccer. So, people can actually back up their arguments about how "baseball sucks" or "football sucks", because they've seen it or played it, but a relatively small amount of people in the US have seen or played ice hockey.|||People are entitled to their opinions, and I don't have a problem with that. It's only the uninformed answers that irritate me. Like the people who say hockey is boring because there aren't enough goals. Are you serious? This isn't soccer on ice! It's fast-paced, exciting action for 60 minutes. 1-0 defensive battles full of amazing goalie saves are some of the most amazing games I've ever watched.
Someone who says something like that has obviously never watched a game. I don't mind people being critical of the sport, but at least learn something about it before you spout off. That's my 2 cents.|||I think it's because people pick on hockey a lot more than any of the other major professional sports MLB, NBA, NFL. It's not the easiest sport to understand or appreciate and a lot of the criticism comes from people who don't know the sport well. For the most part the sport is ignored by the media until something bad happens. We're like the fed-up edgy kid who's gotten bullied too much, you probably don't want to provoke us.|||Hockey fans are passionate about their team, but most importantly the sport itself. That's what makes the sport so great... passion.
The players show passion in the game, and their fans show just as much, when cheering for their team/booing the arch rival/opponent.
If you just allow somebody to bash the sport you absolutely love... then how are you a true fan? Whenever somebody bashes the NHL/Hockey, I am quick to defend it.
Now look at Basketball... the players at times lack passion, and look how, "great", that NBA Final is turning out. However, the basketball fans would probably jump all over me right now if they saw this, which is normal because that would prove they are a TRUE fan of the sport.
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