I thought it was known that Tennis is rough when played at a high level, but I guess I'm just biased because I have been playing Tennis for 7 years and my bones are aching.:P
To me it's a tie between basket ball and soccer. So much tricky leg work is required and the slightest mistake can leave you injured for months or the entire season.
I thought it was known that Tennis is rough when played at a high level, but I guess I'm just biased because I have been playing Tennis for 7 years and my bones are aching.:P
Aching, but not broken. :P And you haven't been crippled from your injuries forever. Other than Football, I don't know any sports that have broken bones often.
Basketball causes the most injuries in the US because of how hard it is on your joints and because how many more people play it. Football does seem to cause more serious injuries when they do occur.
Sorry I wasn't think about people in other country's, I never see Rugby on tv or anything and so I didn't think about it. It's fine! :) I'm in the U.S anyway, but from what I've seen, Rugby is absolutely brutal sometimes! :D
To me it's a tie between basket ball and soccer. So much tricky leg work is required and the slightest mistake can leave you injured for months or the entire season.
bigblunt537
Yeah, but injuries in those sports are usually fluke-y things where you just land wrong after a jump or something. The whole point of football is to hit the other dude as hard as you can.
There's a reason football players are always in such bad shape after they retire and basketball/soccer players are relatively fine.
To me it's a tie between basket ball and soccer. So much tricky leg work is required and the slightest mistake can leave you injured for months or the entire season.
JML897
Yeah, but injuries in those sports are usually fluke-y things where you just land wrong after a jump or something. The whole point of football is to hit the other dude as hard as you can.
There's a reason football players are always in such bad shape after they retire and basketball/soccer players are relatively fine.
Yeah good luck saying that to a retired basket ball player. Usually their knees are shot which is what causes them to retire. Look at what happened to Tracy Mcgrady for example. Went from one of the best players offensively in the NBA to nothing. I don't know to me it's a touch one. Originally I said BBall and soccer, but I now change to BBall and Football, but I think BBall causes more injuries due to the amount of intense leg work and amount of jumping and other plyometric activities these guys do on a daily basis on the court and off the court.
Yeah good luck saying that to a retired basket ball player. Usually their knees are shot which is what causes them to retire. Look at what happened to Tracy Mcgrady for example. Went from one of the best players offensively in the NBA to nothing. I don't know to me it's a touch one. Originally I said BBall and soccer, but I now change to BBall and Football, but I think BBall causes more injuries due to the amount of intense leg work and amount of jumping and other plyometric activities these guys do on a daily basis on the court and off the court.
bigblunt537
Ask an average retired football player if he'll take bad knees instead of whatever he has and chances are he'll say yes. Bad knees aren't as bad as your brain being turned to mush. There's a reason there's been such heated debate about increased health benefits for retired NFL players and calls for the NFL to improve their protection.
Yeah good luck saying that to a retired basket ball player. Usually their knees are shot which is what causes them to retire. Look at what happened to Tracy Mcgrady for example. Went from one of the best players offensively in the NBA to nothing. I don't know to me it's a touch one. Originally I said BBall and soccer, but I now change to BBall and Football, but I think BBall causes more injuries due to the amount of intense leg work and amount of jumping and other plyometric activities these guys do on a daily basis on the court and off the court.
JML897
Ask an average retired football player if he'll take bad knees instead of whatever he has and chances are he'll say yes. Bad knees aren't as bad as your brain being turned to mush. There's a reason there's been such heated debate about increased health benefits for retired NFL players and calls for the NFL to improve their protection.
But the question is which sport is more injury prone. Not which sport results in the most life threatening injuries.
Definitely football, despite the pads. I have strong bones, but I know for a fact that even with pads, I would literally get crushed in a game of football. Basketball comes at a distant second.
I'm pretty sure it'd be a lot easier to injure yourself in soccer then football. Its extremely easy to hurt yourself when going up against another person for a header.
its hard to say because football everyone has little injuries and there are some severe ones here and then whereas basketball you have people who fall and destroy their entire leg/ankle/knee. i think overall its football and in the long run it is football because of concussions but basketball is also very dangerous and most people don't think about basketball like that.
Someone's been watching Penn & Teller's Bulls*****t. But, yeah, cheerleading is pretty injury-prone.
ESPN did a segment on this subject a long time ago. In the final analysis, basketball was the most injury-prone because of the type of body movements, the length of the playing season, and the number of games played in the season (usually games played back-to-back). American football, on the other hand, had the most traumatic injuries, but the number of injuries was less frequent than b-ball.
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