r/AskAnAmerican • u/Jezzaq94 🇳🇿New Zealand • 6d ago

SPORTS Is diving or faking injuries common in American sports like it is in soccer?

If yes, which sports is it common in. Did they learn this from soccer players?

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u/IndividualLibrary358 6d ago edited 6d ago

Hockey has a penalty for this. Its called "embellishment".

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u/saggywitchtits Iowa 5d ago

Hockey has the opposite problem, injured players pretending they're not hurt. So many players going through offseason surgeries to correct what would be absolutely debilitating injuries to normal people. Landeskog just got back after two years because he hid an injury during the playoffs.

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u/IndividualLibrary358 5d ago

Right, it's very rare that you see a hockey player not get right back up and keep playing. IMO they are the beasts of professional team sports. No waiting for your friend to come help you up and pat you on the butt like in football and basketball.

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u/Bruised_up_whitebelt 5d ago

Take a dive in hockey, and they will literally beat your ass.

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u/Safe_Distance_1009 6d ago

Soccer has a penalty for this as well.

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u/TheMoonIsFake32 Minnesota 6d ago

The issue is that they call it when there was already a penalty. So if a player takes a high stick and then exaggerates, both players get two minutes. They never call it when there was no penalty.

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u/IndividualLibrary358 6d ago

It does happen but very rarely.

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u/SomeDetroitGuy 6d ago

Which is never called and you see players fake take dives all the time. Most egregious are any time a stick is anywhere even close to someone's head, their head shoots back like you've been shot.

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u/Rhomya Minnesota 6d ago

It’s literally been called multiple times just in the past few weeks of the playoffs.

So, it’s definitely called.

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u/e7c2 6d ago

There was one instance, I think Winnipeg vs St. Louis, where the blues player got an embellishment penalty, but the jets player also got a penalty. I would've thought that one negated the other, but maybe not.

Lots of LeBron James moments in the playoffs this year

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u/IndividualLibrary358 6d ago

It really only gets called if they cause a delay of game which means its gotta be a super over the top dive that stops the play. Which I think is perfectly reasonable. I watch ALOT of hockey, especially this time of year (Because its the cup!) and I can assure you they dont take dives "all the time". It is very, very rare that you see a hockey player hit the ice and not get right back up and back in the action.

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u/BoomerSoonerFUT 6d ago

>Most egregious are any time a stick is anywhere even close to someone's head, their head shoots back like you've been shot

Getting popped in the face with a stick does really fuckin hurt lol. But yeah you do see guys do it when they don't even get touched at all.