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The players do not care about drama or TV interviews. It is a team sport and not about individuals and if a players has several off games they return to the minors. Same with soccer, motorsport, running, curling,....
Football and baseball create drama for money and viewer attention also there is no diversity in Football or Baseball. Hockey and Basketball are diverse with players from all over the world and can reach out on the international level. I don't think the NBA is dramatized as NFL or MLB. The players greet each other after each game. Even Lebron James after he lost from the Wizards said respectful comments about the team.
Here is another reason why , in general, hockey players are polite and well spoken.
It costs a LOT of money, to play hockey in Canada. Equipment for a year, may run up to 500 dollars, and a kid GROWS out of it, just about every two years. Add to that the cost of `playing the game`. League annual costs can be up to another 500 dollars, as well as the cost to Parents, to travel to week end tournaments, meals, motels, gas, which for a family of four could be 300 to 500 dollars, for one trip.
As a result, poor kids, who live in a city, with a single Mum, in a public housing project, are not likely to play hockey, never mind be able to play at a elite level. The prototypical Canadian NHL player came from a small town, with two Parents at home, went to a small public school system, with good teachers and lots of local friends and mentors to look up to. It`s not at all unusual to pass a sign as you drive into a small Canadian town, that lists all the past NHL, and current NHL players, that came from that town or area.
This week end in Haliburton, Ontario, the Canadian Pond Hockey Championship is being played.... OUTSIDE. The local lake has been cleared of snow, and regulation sized hockey rinks have been built, on the ice. This a huge national amateur hockey event, with amazing turn out, not just from Canada, either.
The teams are six a side, the goals are six feet wide, BUT only a foot high, so you can`t shoot from 30 feet out, you have to stick handle to within five feet, to score a goal. Here is a link to the website. THIS is why Hockey in Canada is so big, we live the game, and we OWN the game. Watch for us at the Sochi Olympics, going for GOLD, again. Both mens and womens teams will be in hard, and tough, as all ways.`
A final TV commercial, about the `Jump The Boards `program, by Tim Hortons, for kids hockey support funding. Yes that guy wearing 87 is Sid the Kid Crosby, along with about 550 other Canadians, ready to go for it.
If you look at all of the interviews in hockey, rarely do you see anyone being an idiot. Everyone is respectful, they talk to the media, answer their questions and don't have a huge ego. Majority of the time they are humble and not screaming on the camera or whining.
Compare that with Football and Basketball and it isn't even funny.
What causes this?
Connect the dots
1. Hockey - Mostly white Canadians
2. Baseball - Mostly white Americans
3. NFL - Mostly Shermans
4. NBA - dumpster fire
Cool political correctness and all, but no counter argument offered.
If you watch MLB, you are aware of countless unwritten rules and integrity of the game. Stuff like Sherman would NEVER fly in baseball. It has been attempted, for example Gomez of the Brewers in Atlanta. But he was apologizing by the next day
People in baseball pop off about other players constantly and their little pushing match that comes from an inside pitch every now and then doesn't come close to the physical cost NFL players have to face at pretty much any play
How about the Dodgers bragging about how they urinated in the d'backs pool after simply clinching their division ..... you're right, baseball is all class
You didn't make a single argument - just some race driven drivel ....... not worth responding to with anything serious because it's so far off from anything grounded in reality
When the Toronto Blue Jays won back to back World Series titles, the joke line here was that "Our Porto Ricans beat the other Porto Ricans, to take the series ". MLB is not a "white sport " at all.
Hockey is. The few non white players are ones that grew up in a place where hockey was the dominant sport, and their Parents had the money to be able to support their ambition to get to the top level of the sport. Hockey, as I have said here is a expensive sport to play. Contrast that with basketball, where all a kid needs is a ball and a net to shoot at.
When the Toronto Blue Jays won back to back World Series titles, the joke line here was that "Our Porto Ricans beat the other Porto Ricans, to take the series ". MLB is not a "white sport " at all.
Hockey is. The few non white players are ones that grew up in a place where hockey was the dominant sport, and their Parents had the money to be able to support their ambition to get to the top level of the sport. Hockey, as I have said here is a expensive sport to play. Contrast that with basketball, where all a kid needs is a ball and a net to shoot at.
Jim B.
Toronto.
That is it, in a nutshell. It's not necessarily race, but more $$$. It's not a cheap sport.
People in baseball pop off about other players constantly and their little pushing match that comes from an inside pitch every now and then doesn't come close to the physical cost NFL players have to face at pretty much any play
How about the Dodgers bragging about how they urinated in the d'backs pool after simply clinching their division ..... you're right, baseball is all class
You didn't make a single argument - just some race driven drivel ....... not worth responding to with anything serious because it's so far off from anything grounded in reality
"Race driven drivel"
Yet ironically your only counter argument is a black (07% of baseball demographic) baseball player, whose antics have forced him to play on 4 different clubs in 8 years (including Asia) even though he's a career .280 hitter. My argument is further backed by posters above demonstrating it's about $$$ and everyday I am reminded by individuals like the (black) President about this countries financial inequality in terms of race.
People that label proof as racist are utterly sickening. Although in the USA we are decreasing in numbers, there are still enough of us out there that will not allow ignorance.
Yet ironically your only counter argument is a black (07% of baseball demographic) baseball player, whose antics have forced him to play on 4 different clubs in 8 years (including Asia) even though he's a career .280 hitter. My argument is further backed by posters above demonstrating it's about $$$ and everyday I am reminded by individuals like the (black) President about this countries financial inequality in terms of race.
People that label proof as racist are utterly sickening. Although in the USA we are decreasing in numbers, there are still enough of us out there that will not allow ignorance.
No, it's not my "only counter argument" - you obvioulsy missed the classy in victory Dodgers celebration which included a whole spectrum
Would it make you feel better if I referenced Chris Carpenter yelling and swearing at a member of the Red Sox after he popped up during a WS game?
Or Zach Grienke trash talking the aforementioned Chris Carpenter before the NLDS?
What that poster and apparently you are trying to do is link correlation to causation ...... except your failing at even the correlation by saying things like baseball is mostly white americans or that hockey is mostly white canadians - the most recent numer I saw on that was that the NHL is about 52%/48% so it's almost even between canadians and those from other countries .... when you skinny out the canadians who wouldn't traditionally identify as white such as black players or native/first nations players it gets even closer to even
Either way, to say that the reason you don't have issues like this in hockey (which is false because they clearly do exist) is because the majority of hockey players are white canadians (which while technically is probably true is false because there is not statistical signifigance when you are just above 50% of a population when describing the actions of the population as a whole) - it's basically a garbage response
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