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There are many sports you can be fat in and still play. Football is one of them, just ask a lineman. Hockey isn't, you can even ask the goalies.
Hockey is played on ice, football is played on turf or grass.
In hockey, a regular season is 82 games, sometimes up to 4 games per week. In football a regular season is 16 games, and they play once a week, sometimes twice depending on Monday or Thursday Night football and schedule constraints.
Hockey is played with a puck and hit with sticks. Football is played with a ball, and thrown, rushed, and caught.
Football is a more popular sport nationwide, hockey isn't as popular.
Football stadiums hold tens, sometimes hundreds of thousand fans. Hockey arenas seat approximately 20,000 fans... if they sell out.
HOWEVER...
Both require power AND finess.
Both games take 1 hour of playing time.
With all the stoppages of play in hockey, and all the huddles in football, both have situations where players sometimes get a break.
I can go on this for days. It is like comparing apples to oranges when you get down to it. As for me, I am a fan of both sports, mainly because I love hard-hitting contact sports. But to say hockey is non-athletic, let's see you try it and see if you can survive on the ice.
I do, however, agree with the statement that I don't even know how hockey even got mixed into this thread...
