Tyler Kennedy didn't think FSG got off on right foot in Pittsburgh
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What sport is considered more physical: hockey or football?
Tyler, we were just talking about which is the more physical sport, hockey or football. What's your opinion? Mine is football by a long shot, but I didn't play pro hockey. You did. Of course, I didn't play pro football either. Limits just thinks he can hit a baseball. He didn't play pro sports. I think it's very, very close. The only thing, I think you get hit more often in football, but the element of hockey and being able to fight someone like gladiator stuff, that adds a different kind of physicality. That adds like a fighting physicality, right? Like... When that's like maybe the last sport that you're allowed to fight toe to toe and call another human being, throw your gloves down and say, and we're going to solve this old school, right?
I think the only other one is lacrosse. Is lacrosse a lot? Lacrosse is crazy. Yeah. I don't know if fighting's a lot. Is it in lacrosse? Yeah, I think you can just whack people with your stick as long as it's not in the wrong spot. The cross is very physical, but for like a national sport, hockey has that on football. Do I think that collisions in football are way harder? 100%. I watched a highlight reel of Troy Polamalu yesterday, and I was like, this guy was like an animal. I got the end of his career, but the way he'd hit guys. Oh my God. It's like getting hit by a bus. You cannot, fighting is just a different animal. Yeah, it is. I just, having been in both locker rooms all the time after games, sometimes I'm in a hockey locker room and it's like, all right, these guys are going to play tomorrow night.
Yeah. Like I know the game they just played is very physical. I'm aware of that. But to me, football's a different animal, man. You have guys, it looks like a medic's tent after a game. 16 and 82 is a big difference too, though. For sure, the overall physicality of a season. The overall, right, in a year. But they're not going from Sunday to Monday. It would be physically impossible. There's like seven collisions on one football play that might equate to a whole hockey game. Just look at the five guys up front smashing into each other on every single play. Yeah, but imagine playing every second game from October to April. For sure. That cumulative toll, no doubt. And like, I agree, you know, in a one game physicality, like football's way more physical, but for 82 games plus playoffs, plus you're allowed to fight, plus you're on skates that are like little, like hacksaw, you know what I mean?
That are like little knives on the ice. Yes. Um. Yeah, it's, it's very close. Um, and then you think, you know, you can put it where after people's career who has, you know, the most like brain trauma, it's probably football, right? Like the probably, probably the most severe post-career injuries is probably football. I mean, you just talked about it with hockey, that it's not the way it used to be. Like, how many big hits do we see in a hockey game anymore? We literally see them on every play. If you include offensive and defensive lines smashing each other and, you know, running backs getting hammered by linebacker, every single play is filled with collisions. But anyway, we can talk about that again, though.
Oh, yeah. More people watching, which is why the bigger paychecks. But let's get to this real quick here. This pending ownership change. What do you make of this, Tyler? Sounds like the Hoffman family is buying from FSG. I don't think FSG has done a bad job. They've made some mistakes, but- I think they made some mistakes. Talk about it. Well, I think when they first got here, they got rid of a lot of local workers that worked downtown. They hired everyone from Boston to stay at home and work. And people that Mario and Ron and all the local ownership had working here, they all got let go after 15, 20 years of working. So I think that started off the wrong foot. Yeah. I don't think they ever had someone that was like a permanent like.
Figure in Pittsburgh living here. That was another problem and Pittsburgh's such a different town. You need someone with local ties or someone you can see be part of the team.
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