Happy birthday, P.-C.!

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Happy Birthday P-C!

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Still and all, the New England Patriots average 280 lb. per person on their defensive line, and their whole job is to make vertical people get horizontal.

Yes, and they frequently go horizontal themselves, which is one of the top ten reasons not to stand behind one, whereas hockey players have great balance from all those years of moving v. quickly, and often backwards, while wearing thin metal blades, and moving on a slippery surface. Plus? They're born to fight.

(Baseball players, despite their enthusiasm, have few to no skills that help with fighting. The Red Sox's most recent "brawls" have involved attempted pile-drivings, the pulling of uniforms (in the absence of hair long enough), and two guys attempting to claw each other's eyes out, like the S4 Xander slapfight.)

Amen. And really? At least in Boston, they're far too pampered. And despite the fact that the NBA boasts some superb athletes, basketball players are all elbows and knees, and rather ungainly to be around, if/when/since most of us are a foot or a foot and a half shorter than many of them.

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I'm assuming Boston doesn't have a rugby team? Because if a vampire, homicidal maniac or Karl Rove was coming for me, I choose rugby player every time. They're just so BIG.

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Poking head again: Nutty! My skippppppmppping showed me that you posted about a certain birthday you recently had? Happy, um, whichever-day of your new age! I hope you had a great day, and that the rest of the year will be wonderful for you!

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I'm assuming Boston doesn't have a rugby team? Because if a vampire, homicidal maniac or Karl Rove was coming for me, I choose rugby player every time. They're just so BIG.

We're such a baseball town, that we don't even know if we have a Rugby team. We barely know we have the (champion) American Football team, Basketball team, and hockey team. There's a Soccer team, but nobody pays any attention to them, either. That said, I have met Rugby players in pubs (shocking, I know), and I would probably pick them second. There's a lot of the same mentality with hockey and Rugby players, I think.

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There's a lot of the same mentality with hockey and Rugby players, I think.

I've never actually seen a hockey game, but I've heard a lot about them. And I think you might be right. Throw a few punches, no hard feelings? Buy a beer in the pub after the game?

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Hockey is like rugby, but faster, and with walls to crash into. And yes, throw-a-punch, buy-him-a-beer type of insane camaraderie.

Now that hockey requires helmets (with face guards!), most hockey players still have their ears, noses, teeth, and intact cheeks.

Boston also has a soccer team (okay, the New England Revolution) but I do not recognize teams with collective names, like the Jazz, Heat, Thunder, or Crick-in-the-Neck.

Nilly! I turned thirty on Friday. I am now 30 + 3 days.

[edited to be coherent]

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Hockey is like rugby, but faster, and with walls to crash into.

Also, on ice.

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Because if a vampire, homicidal maniac or Karl Rove was coming for me, I choose rugby player every time. They're just so BIG.

No doubt. The first actual professional rugby team I saw was up close. I came back from using the restroom in our hotel in Bulgaria, and said to my husband, "There are several very large, very scary, bald men wearing matching scarves in the lobby." He correctly identified them as a British rugby team, there to play the Bulgarians. Terrifying people.

But very nice, as it turned out. I just read that football (soccer) is a gentlemen's game played by hooligans, while rugby is a hooligan's game played by gentlemen. These guys upheld their part of that.

In hockey's favor, they also have razors on their feet and are armed. But against hockey, they are armored. (shrug) I'm from New Mexico, what do I know about hockey?

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