Looks Like We've Found The Connor McDavid Of Hurling
Seb Daly. Getty Images.Have you ever wondered what would happen if you took rugby and married it with lacrosse, and then added some elements of hockey and soccer in there as well?
Because that's exactly what you would get with hurling. It's like one day someone in Ireland couldn't figure out what sport they wanted to play so they just decided to play all of them at once. Now the thing is that I don't know shit when it comes to the rules of hurling. And all things considered, it's probably not worth the time to research and learn the rules. Just like rugby, I'll continue to watch this sport and just make up my own rules along the way.
But it doesn't matter if you know everything there is to know about hurling, or you didn't even know the sport existed until 85 seconds ago. Anyone with one eye and half a brain can tell you this goal from Tony Kelly was absolutely nasty.
It doesn't matter what sport we're talking about here--it could be football, it could be hockey, it could be hurling, it could be skipping rocks--it's always sick to see someone who is just a million times better than everybody else out there they are competing against. When someone has reached this preposterous level of skill in a sport that nobody else can even come close to touching? That's art. The Mona Lisa can kick rocks compared to this.
Leonardo da Vinci ain't got shit on that.
Again, I don't know dick about the rules of this game. From watching that video I'm going to assume you can only take so many steps with the ball in your hand before it has to touch the stick. But either way, that little cut back to split the defenders followed up by picking that corner transcends across all sports. That was nasty. The type of thing we only see out of the great ones.
The only difference between Tony Kelly and Connor McDavid is that Tony Kelly actually won the Big One after leading Ballyea to winning the All-Ireland title.
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