Ice Hockey vs. Field Hockey

     I have looked into the differences between hockey and field hockey. This essay will help you better understand the differences and also similarities between hockey and field hockey.

     There are only a couple of similarities between field hockey and hockey. They are both Olympic sports. I didn’t think field hockey is since you never seen it on TV, but it is. They both have goalkeepers who both have lots of padding, a mask and hand protectors. They both have net for goals.

But, there are lots of differences between the two. Field hockey was first played in the 19^th centaury where hockey was first organized March 3, 1875. In field hockey there is barely any contact but in hockey there is fighting, checking, and pretty much decking people. What they play on is different too. Field hockey plays on turf where hockey plays on ice. Field hockey has 16 players playing 11 at a time where hockey has 20 playing 6 at a time.

Field hockey can raise the stick up high and juggle the ball where hockey if you bring your stick to high they will count it as high sticking and you get sent to the “sin bin” (penalty box) for 2 minutes. In field hockey they just have mudguards and shinguards, where hockey has helmets, chest pads, shorts that are all padded, pads around the shins, and pad on your hands. The last thing is you can’t choose when there is a timeout on the field so you keep going and going where in hockey there are timeouts all the time.

     So I showed you some similarities and lots of differences between hockey and field hockey. I like hockey better cause there is more contact, but everyone has his or her own opinion between the two.

No New Vikings Stadium

     For a quite a while now the Minnesota Vikings have been pushing to get a new stadium. But time after time they have gotten knocked down. I agree that the Viking shouldn’t have a new stadium.

     I know how impressive it would look with a all new pro sports facility in Minnesota. With the new Twins stadium and a newer Excel Center and possibly renovations coming to Target Center. But the Viking want a brand new stadium that will cost $750-$954 million dollars. Sure with a retractable roof and a glass exterior it will look so nice and we can brag about what we have would be exciting.

      But upward of $954 million exactly where will this come from. One way they are talking about is passing a half-cent tax that could generate $300 million toward a new Vikings stadium. The other way they propose is the Vikings organization will raise a third which they would cover about $315 million of the $954 million leaving the rest up to Ramsey County and possibly the state. They said about 75% of Minnesotans don’t support using taxpayer money for a new Vikings Stadium. When our state deficit is $5 billion, we can’t afford such an expensive stadium. The other option is renovating the Metrodome that will cost about $250 million, which is about 26% of what the new stadium will cost. I looked at some of the drawing of the renovation and I think it looks very nice. I also looked up what the Cowboys stadium was suppose to cost and they projected it to cost $932 million dollars, but the stadium actually ended up costing $1.3 billion after all the constructions delays and the extra construction fees. What if that happens to us and our stadium ends up costing in the upwards of billions of dollars

     So sure, the stadium will make the addition to the good looking pro sports facilities we have already. But with a $5 billion dollar deficit we can’t afford a $954 million dollar stadium. So from what I have read it’s just putting too much pressure on taxpayers. So I say just renovate the Metrodome instead of a brand new ones.