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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No, tackle football is for the most athletic kids. Mediocre athletes can do ok in soccer if they work hard. [/quote]

Haha this is amazingly silly.  I grew up playing football and my kid plays soccer.  Soccer is a much tougher sport athletically and physically more demanding.  [/quote]

Hockey has the toughest athletic requirements and great athletes [/quote]

How much jumping is done in hockey? 
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Right. And how many athletes play hockey, which in America is a sport that excludes so many athletes because of the cost and access to ice time?

When you play in the English premier league, for example, you can look at the guys and know these are among the best athletes in the world, in part, because of how they look but also because logically you know how many hundreds of millions of people play soccer all over the globe.  Hockey is a niche sport (except in Canada, which is not some athletic powerhouse) which is fine but anyone that's been around college and professional hockey players knows they are NOT the best athletes in the world.  And that's not a dis, it's just observably obvious to everyone except delusional hockey moms/dads freezing their arses off 2 to 3 times per week.

Similarly, when you talk about elite athletes that have come out of the DMV, it is absurd to claim hockey players from this area are anything like those men and women that have achieved athletic feats at the highest level.

Kevin Durant is an elite athlete. Quincy Wilson is an elite athlete. A teenage Olympian.  Reed Wellington IV who goes to Potomac/Flint Hill and works out with a trainer over at the St. James is not. He's just a regular dude. [/quote]

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