Picture of the Day: Hockey Fight

Tags: hockey

• JoeC
  2:28 pm on September 30th, 2011 1

  That’s not a “hockey fight” it’s “fierce playing.” Didn’t you read the caption at the story? Unlike those hooligan basketball players in China.

• Angus
  5:35 pm on September 30th, 2011 2

  Phhh! Amateurs!

• Tom
  7:24 pm on September 30th, 2011 3

  Right. I just knew we’d start to see the facetious comments out of feeling of superiority. This is why the game of hockey will never take off in Korea, nor should it, since this is a white man’s game (isn’t that what you guys are really saying here?). It’s a silly immature game anyway, they spend more time punching at each other, than playing the game. It’s no wonder nobody cares about this stupid game.

• Fanwarrior
  12:58 am on October 1st, 2011 4

  This picture is from nearly 2 weeks ago. Hard to make it the picture of the day today..
  as for being popular, well the home opener had about a 22% increase in attendance vs last year (Anyang Halla is reigning champ 2 years in a row) and it was standing room only with all the stairs full of people and people about 2 rows deep all the way around the seating area. That despite a ticket price increase.

• rockon
  3:28 am on October 1st, 2011 5

  Tom said, “It’s no wonder nobody cares about this stupid game.”

  What freaking retard thing to say. I guess for you, oh yee center of the universe, it matters little that most of the northern hemisphere indeed cares about. But since places like Russia, Sweden, etc are outside your sphere of influence, nay, boundaries of intelligence, they simply don’t, you know, like, count.

• Tom
  5:11 am on October 1st, 2011 6

  Like I said, white man’s game. Nobody cares except for few white men from the north who feel it’s a game only for themselves.

• Teadrinker
  6:48 am on October 1st, 2011 7

  #5,

  If people’s tastes were dictated by whatever Tom’s own, we’d be in a sorry state.

• Teadrinker
  6:49 am on October 1st, 2011 8

  Scratch that mess…If people’s tastes were dictated by what Tom enjoys most, we’d all be compulsive masturbators.

• Glans
  1:56 pm on October 1st, 2011 9

  If you fail to admire Canada’s national sport, you may expect insults even from an intelligent Canadian.

• Teadrinker
  4:46 pm on October 1st, 2011 10

  …hell, it would be an Olympic sport. He would give a whole new meaning to the kneel and jerk, the 100m dash, the breaststroke, and the shot put.

• Angus
  5:19 pm on October 1st, 2011 11

  Tom,

  You are right but for the wrong reason. The game will never take off in Korea for the same reason that sports in general will never take off in Korea. Few Koreans really like sports (sorry, sports nationalism doesn’t count)and what’s more telling is that even fewer play sports here. Kids need to be playing sports from an early age to develop a life long interest in games. But we all know where Korean children are after school and late into the night and they sure as hell are not playing soccer, baseball or any other organized game.

  BTW, I couldn’t help but noticing that your English language competency hasn’t developed to the point of recognizing irony. Perhaps you need to start interacting more with some of those evil white people you thoroughly despise? Other than playing the role of the Minjok Warrior/Defender of the Race, I mean.

• Fanwarrior
  5:39 pm on October 1st, 2011 12

  #11, that’s funny..last time I was up in Goyang, the soccer field had about 6 little league games going at once. And when the local kindergarten lets out, a soccer hagwon bus shows up to grab several kids. Generalizations generally make you look like an idiot.

  Hockey has been played in Korea, by Koreans, for a very long time. It isn’t the most popular sport, but it’s also an expensive sport compared to things like soccer, baseball, or basketball. It has gotten enough attention in the country that even in the 50s newspapers here devoted a significant portion of the little space they had to publishing full guides on the game and rules for readers.

• Tom
  6:15 pm on October 1st, 2011 13

  #1,#2,#5,#7,#8,#10,#11.. all the bigoted comments against Koreans, and I’m the bigot of this site.

• Angus
  6:46 pm on October 1st, 2011 14

  Fanwarrior,

  ..exceptions that prove the rule/generalization.

• Fanwarrior
  6:57 pm on October 1st, 2011 15

  #13 I don’t think you remotely know what that phrase means.

• Fanwarrior
  7:17 pm on October 1st, 2011 16

  Soccer alone has 642 teams registered in the public school/university system.
  This doesn’t include all the people learning at hagwons, playing in summer leagues, or simply just playing for fun.

  http://www.kfa.or.kr/eng_renew/library/registry.asp

  The Korean little league baseball association has over 100 teams listed on their website around the country. I don’t think that includes school teams (if the schools here do that), and doesn’t include higher levels. I can’t find a similar chart on their site.

• Tom
  7:56 pm on October 1st, 2011 17

  Americans don’t like nerds, you know the short Asian kid with glasses who studies hard who don’t know anything about sports, let alone coordinated enough to even run straight. The jock – the white guy who has all the hot chicks is the ultimate hero. Who needs books when you have hockey and football where macho men duke it out to the end? Americans sure love their sports. But it sure is strange to see why they are so fat? Shouldn’t playing sports make them more fit? But yet, they are very fat.
  Why is that?

• USinKorea
  9:25 pm on October 1st, 2011 18

  As fanwarrior pointed out, Tom’s claims of bigotry in most/all of the comments indicated above shows a typical cluelessness.

  I remember a couple of friends in high school who’d say something like, “I don’t like black people.” And I’d point out that one of the friends they hung out with a lot was black. But, somehow, that was different, in their minds. It doesn’t have to make sense…

• ChickenHead
  10:05 pm on October 1st, 2011 19

  It makes perfect sense.

  They didn’t dislike “black people” (racism).

  They disliked people who acted like “black people” (culturalism).

  All interested parties, from politicians to minority leadership, have done their best to confuse these two issues to excuse and protect substandard cultures and the billions of dollars that flow around them.

  One can argue that racism and culturalism are both bigotry…

  …but, while people can’t change their race, they can change their actions, attitudes, and values.

  …ergo, disliking people for their culture, which conflicts with the value structure of yours, is no more bigoted than disliking eggplant or preferring not to receive anal sex.

  So it WAS different. Their “black” friend’s skin color was looked upon no differently than their tall friend’s height, their fat friend’s weight, or their ugly friend’s face… because all of their values were the same.

  As soon as this is recognized by mainstream society, a lot of actual discrimination will evaporate.

• Fanwarrior
  10:16 pm on October 1st, 2011 20

  CH, yes.. there is a popular image floating around that explains the difference between those two things in a nice easily digestible package that most people can follow.

  The difference is the thuggish mentality associated with young black men and gangs. That’s expanded to pretty much all thuggish youth now, but the initial stereotype of this seems to have been associated with black youth. As such, the thuggish, baggy clothed, vulgar, criminal image which they seem to enjoy because it looks so tough and manly is exactly what they don’t like. Put the same person in a nice suit and have them speak politely and suddenly it’s an entirely different thing.

• Teadrinker
  6:57 am on October 2nd, 2011 21

  #13,

  Making fun of you is being bigoted against Koreans? You don’t represent Koreans, even if you actually are Korean (which few of us believe you to be).

• johnny boy
  7:55 am on October 6th, 2011 22

  “I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out.”
  Rodney Dangerfield

  I went to the online flame wars the other night and a serious, in-depth, intelligent discussion without charges of racism and bigotry broke out…….

 

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