Here's A Not So Gentle Reminder That Lacrosse Fights Are Easily The Most Brutal 30 Seconds In All Of Sports
I do a lot of writing about lacrosse here at Barstool Sports dot com. And almost every time I talk about lacrosse, it's always met with people who try to claim that it's either not a sport, or a sport for quote-unquote p-words.
Now it's easy for anonymous folks on the internet to spew off a bunch of nonsense they know nothing about since there are no checks and balances when it comes to the comment section. But I defy anybody to watch that clip above and tell me that lacrosse players aren't some of the sickest bastards on the planet. That tilt was devastatingly bruuuuutal.
Hockey fights are awesome and everything, but they're on skates so there's a lot of slipping and sliding going on there. You're not always going to get everybody's heaviest punch getting thrown. Often times you can have a fight end before any real haymakers land. But in a lacrosse fight? There's no hiding. It's basically just a sanctioned street fight at that point. Helmets off, gloves off, arm pads off, feet dug into the turf, and the refs just make sure they do their job by keeping everybody else the hell away until the boys settle their little dispute the old fashioned way. And the only way that ends is with a kill shot.
So hats off to whoever has the stones to step up and drop the gloves in an NLL game. You have to be sick, twisted, and absolutely maniacal to chuck some knucks out there like that. And here's the hoping they all have decent dental insurance because a few more pops to the jaw like that and that bottom row of teeth is gonezo.