Toughest Sport

[Tdawg2008]

Hopscotch...now that's a man's sport.

[Johnson Nguyen]

MMA, hands down.

[Mr~Pan]

Just found this: Most Hazardous Sports - Yahoo! Sports

To create our list of the most hazardous sports, Forbes.com looked at 2006 data compiled by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission’s National Electronic Injury Surveillance System (NEISS).
In 2006, NEISS collected injury data related to – but not necessarily caused by – consumer products recorded by 96 hospital emergency rooms of various sizes located across the country. For instance, NEISS would equally count a report of an injury related to the breaking of a bike’s front fork as well as one in which a bike rider was bitten a dog, says Thomas Schroeder, a statistician for the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission.
Forbes.com ranked the top 10 sports using the estimated number of injuries for people of all ages. The rankings do not take into account varying participation rates, which partly explains why many popular sports yielded the greatest number of injuries.
The numbers show, surprisingly, that of all the activities you might participate in this summer, or throughout the rest of the year, basketball had the highest estimated number of injuries, with more than 529,000 during 2006, followed by bicycling, at over 490,000 and football, at over 460,000. Rounding out the top five are riding an ATV, moped or minibike, with more than 275,000 injuries, and playing baseball or softball, with over 274,000 injuries. The injuries reported ranged from getting elbowed in the mouth during a basketball game to a fractured femur following an ATV rollover.

The top five:
1. Basketball
2. Bicycling
3. Football
4. ATVs, Mopeds, Minibikes
5. Baseball, Softball


Very surprising actually. This thread is so astrain on what "toughest" sport means so I figured that was worth posting. This is offical data mind you so in terms of brutality and serious injuries thoses sports take the cake.


I still think golf is the "toughest" to play.

[Magnum Force]

You're a little late, Panny.

http://www.video-game-forums.com/spo...tml#post504617

[Mr~Pan]

Originally Posted by Magnum Force

You're a little late, Panny.

http://www.video-game-forums.com/spo...tml#post504617

Different thread, different section, this topic is bigger...you lose!

[Scuba Steve]

I'd like to see what the number was for hockey, if they even did it.

[The mOBSCENE]

Originally Posted by Scuba Steve

I'd like to see what the number was for hockey, if they even did it.

That list is for the top sports most injuries occur so Hockey is obviously not one of the top five. It may take a lot of toughness to play Hockey but obviously hockeys players are also tough enough to take it because the injuries sustained is not a top fiver.




Golf may be tough to play and learn correctly but is fun to play... Especially when you're with a bunch of your friends and you're bull******** and drinking the whole time.

[Scuba Steve]

Originally Posted by The mOBSCENE

That list is for the top sports most injuries occur so Hockey is obviously not one of the top five. It may take a lot of toughness to play Hockey but obviously hockeys players are also tough enough to take it because the injuries sustained is not a top fiver.

I know, but I'd still like to see the number. Sprains and soft elbows to the face don't count as injuries in hockey though, loller.

[-Irish.Kin-]

I know this thread has died off quite a bit, but I figured I'd put this out there just to have it out there.

A rugby player died today after he broke his neck in a game a couple months ago.

Article for those that are interested
Rugby player dies after horror injury - WalesOnline

[Jimdalf]

Funnily enough it was a ruck that did it. Its not really the tackling that the worry with rugby, its what happens afterwards... the biggest fellas from each time just pile on.