Alright well I played baseball all my life and it was fun, but to watch its brutal. Same with golf, love playing it but it's pretty boring to watch, except the good ol' days when Tiger was in his prime. Basketball... well that's just brutal. Football is alright, Rugby seems faster paced and better. There's something wrong with banging heads until everyone's braindead or crippled at 40.
But hockey just is the perfect combination of skill, athleticism, speed, strategy and violence lol.
Hence, my love for it. I think if you laced up some skates and tried to play hockey (and failed miserably at first), you'd respect the little things most people overlook. Like the ability to control the puck and precisely move it through another (excellent) skaters legs while skating 30-40mph only to collect the puck again.