said:
Having confronted Dr. David, Ed Grinnell, International Man Of Mystery, 
exclaimed:
 
 DGR>      Goonball?  That's a laugh coming from a NFL fan...
 EG> Not even close. When a guy can take a lethal weapon, slash his
 EG> opponent like a slab of butter and miss less time than a guy caught
 EG> with drugs, I think that his game's priorities are in the wrong place
 EG> (Don't get me wrong, I'm not advocationg being soft on drugs, just
 EG> harder on goons). When the NHL can take care of its nuts, I'll go back
 EG> but until then, I'll pass. 
 
     When they took fighting out of the game that's when you saw the 
increase in the stick work, and not by the enforcers (you never see guys 
like Tie Domi, Gino Odjick or Chris Simon using the lumber), but guys 
who couldn't throw a punch to save themselves like Claude Lemieux and 
Ulf Samuelsson.  After what Kirk Maltby(?) did to Claude Lemieux in 
retaliation for what Lemieux did to Kris Draper, you not going to see 
Claude take anymore cheap shots at Red Wing players anymore.
     However American football is significantly more violent than 
hockey.  For one thing, the average career in the NFL is half that of 
the NHL (three years to six years) despite it being comparable in 
physical toil.  And I've seen too many dangerous cheap shots taken on 
opposing players, and not just at quarterbacks, yet it's celebrated as 
"smash mouth football".  Also hasn't there been about four or five 
players in the past decade left paralyzed as the result of playing in 
the NFL?  I can't recall it ever happening in the NHL....
 
 DGR>      You know it's okay to simply say you don't like hockey.  You'll
 DGR> lose your citizenship, but it's okay...
 EG> Since I'm not Canadian, I wouldn't lose my citizenship for that (I
 EG> like the CFL).:-) 
     It's that damn origin line of yours, I thought you were from 
Edmonton...
     Shame we have to crush your US squad at the Olympics coming up...
     
                     
                                             Sincerely Yours
                                             
                                             David G. Riess
                                             EchoHockeyGhod
            
                                
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