Which Sport Has the Most Uncomfortable Attire?

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Typically speaking, we wear clothes and other accessories to play sports. So, which sport has the most uncomfortable attire? Let's explore!

Soccer: Cleats, shin guards, and high socks over the shin guards. That combination, with a lot of running, leads to a lot of sweating. Shin guards can feel rather bulky on your legs. Not a pleasant feeling. But not the worst.

Ice skating: While ice skating can make for a nice little date under the right circumstances, the actual ice skates themselves usually are not particularly comfortable. Roller skates and inline skates are not that much better. Of course, ice skating is one component of another sport, closer to our most uncomfortable winner.....

Hockey: So you are wearing ice skates, which are already uncomfortable enough. Then, there's a wide variety of protective padding (shoulder pads, chest protector, elbow pads, mouthguard), a helmet, and a big stick. That's a lot of stuff. If I had more experience playing hockey, I might say that this is the most uncomfortable.....but it's getting closer.

Skiing: Skiing features wearing thermal underwear and a layer of a coat or two. You are often wearing a hat to cover your head when skiing recreationally, or a helmet if you are a serious racer. But what puts skiing over the top for me are ski boots, one of the most uncomfortable apparatuses known to mankind. When the best part of any ski day is taking off ski boots, that's probably a sign that the sport has the most uncomfortable attire.

Additionally, the ski experience is a nice little kick in the wallet and/or filled with inconveniences. If you don't live in the town of the mountain or are doing a ski in/ski out day, you've got to fight traffic to the mountain, and a lot of mountain parking situations are challenging, involving distance walks in ski boots carrying big skis and/or getting shuttled to mountain like cattle. If you are traveling to ski, there's the hotel cost. No matter how you get to the mountain, you are paying for a lift ticket, which costs a pretty penny, and standing in lift lines.

So, for me, skiing takes the top prize in having the most uncomfortable attire. The additional experiences put it over the top. Skiing is a fun sport when you are actually doing it, but the side stuff definitely takes away from the experience.

Your thoughts?

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