"Two snaps and your backfield in motion."
Posted on 07/02/2014 9:55:48 AM PDT by PoloSec
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And if players accumulate yellow cards over a series of games, they are suspended for a game, so there are indeed immediate consequences to getting a yellow card.
Hey, I expect the quality of the NFL self-congratulatory prancing and chest pounding to only improve. I mean the rest of the players will have to step it up now that fans can look at a player breaking out the fruity moves and know for sure he is actually gay. They have to compete with the real McCoy now.
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If there was more biting ears off and other body parts, that would make it more interesting. It would give the players a reason to go to the ground writhing in pain. Instead of a fake injury, they’d have a real injury.
Put them on skates, on ice, penalize divers, smaller goals, lots of padding, allow most fights, use a puck.
Hockey is the greatest game you can ever name.
"Two snaps and your backfield in motion."
My take with soccer is it’s not American. Pussy liberals like it but they aren’t American either. I grew up playing football. I never even knew soccer existed until years later after I graduated from high school. We have football so why in hell would we need soccer, a lesser sport?
You like soccer.
Fine. It’s a free country (until soccer becomes the number one sport).
But this:
“Did it ever occur to you that perhaps USMNT matches are one of the few bastions left where people can proudly wave the Red, White and Blue?”
That’s a poor attempt at demagoguery.
And the best game you can name is the good old hockey game.
I guess you could call me a soccer curmudgeon, and I’m not likely to watch another match until the next World Cup, but I did like the excitement and tension generated because of how precious goals are, given the lack of them. Also, I liked the relative lack of rules (relative to the control freak NFL), and lack of commercials (again, relative to the control freak NFL).
Absolute worst song. Best game. Lol!
I’m partial to it, because everyday back in 1999 when the Dallas Stars were on their run to winning the Stanley Cup, they would play that song.
Not even close to as poor as the following:
The World Cup and pro soccer in general is not something to be admired or interested in.
It does serve as a marker of sorts. The more interest there is in it here in the US, the closer we go to a European Style socialist state.
Stopped reading here:
“Soccer is about as exciting as watching paint dry. “
He apparently didn’t watch yesterday’s game. Or Brazil-Chile. Or USA-Portugal. That’s just lazy.
Outside of the Anglosphere, people have trouble inventing sports. Look at all the variant "footballs" in English-speaking countries -- soccer, rugby union, rugby league, American football, Canadian football, Gaelic football, Australian football. The rest of the world just has soccer (though parts of France and now Italy are playing rugby now).
Maybe it's indicative of larger factors. European countries were always insecure and worried about the designs of their neighbors. Historically there were more limits to how much freedom and innovation were allowed than in the Anglo-Saxon countries. They were always afraid that if the country misstepped the French or German army might step in.
So now, Belgium is always worried about competing with the Netherlands or Cameroon with Nigeria in soccer, instead of evolving new rules or new games. Plus, there are so many leagues in so many different countries that it would be hard to get agreement among them all.
I enjoyed pl;ayig very much in my youth - young adulthood. Get bored very quickly watching it. I understand why my parents didn’t make it to many games, or many fans didn’t make it at all. Kind of like track meets. My folks made it to every single basketball game however...
Of course you’re correct that 5-on-4 is significantly greater an advantage than 11-on-10, but how much more significant is tough to say given the differences in the nature and the speed of the two games. But in any case, since soccer at the World Cup level has such closely matched teams and typically such low scores, the effect of any tangible advantage would worth exploring.
And the time period of a penalty box stay could be tweaked to give whatever results FIFA or some other governing body seeks - if the man-short team can play keep-away for two minutes, make the minor penalty four or five.
With regard to your other point, it all depends on what one considers “immediate”. In principle, you could be down to the last two minutes of the final game of the Cup, say up a goal, and commit a minor foul on your opponent with impunity - so you get a yellow card, so what? To a lesser extent, any player could have the same attitude in any game - you get one free foul, at least if it’s at the yellow card level, and if you’re worried about another one, you just back off a little, or your coach replaces you with someone at a comparable level, or whatever. I just think if a person commits an actual foul, there should be consequences then and there, not (maybe, or maybe not) later on or a game down the road
A 2-1 soccer score is the same as a 14-7 football score. A 14-7 football score is not that rare. A 3-0 soccer is the same as a 21-0 football and that definitely is not rare.
Don’t mention extra points in football to me. They are the closest thing to life to automatic, right next to taxes and death.
“The Colombians do it right.”
Very entertaining - but have you ever seen the Kiwi’s do their haka?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOTyoQjQXRs
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