Posted on 06/18/2014 6:54:10 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
6. Name one of their teams The Redskins.
For that reason alone, Soccer can suck it.
What makes the author think it’s important to the rest of the world that Americans like soccer?
I would disagree on ‘injury-time’. The fakeness of the whole thing is more worth watching than most of the game. When they show the slow-motion stuff, and you see how the guy is faking a fall...it’s like some Academy Award stuff...strictly polished at falling and doing it to claim severe injury. Good stuff, if you ask me.
Play the game with the head of a Jihadist.
Execute the losing team. Guaranteed rise to the top of the public desire.
1) It’s more or less a tradition at this point, and it’s hard to change tradition in this sport. Otherwise, I have no problem with the suggestion.
2) Meh. It’s rarely an issue in a game that’s far more about possession than it is about position (unlike American football, for example). When it really matters, the referee or linesman generally get pretty picky about taking it from the right place.
3) Agreed. Refs should be quicker to issue yellow cards for diving and league/tournament officials should be able to suspend players for egregious examples after games, regardless of whether or not they got away with it in real time.
4) No. The author gets the rule wrong and none of the suggested changes would keep even the remotest spirit of the rule intact.
5) No. The way to make everyone better is to improve, not to tear down others. The citizenship rules do need so revise, however.
Here’s an idea: how about soccer take itself seriously first, and decide its World Championship by actually playing soccer, instead of some possibly invoking some retarded coin-flipping contest?
#6. Widen the goals to allow some actual scoring. These 0-0 games are mind-numbingly boring.
OK, so now if we don’t care for soccer, we are “HATERS”?
And once they hit the ground, they roll.. and roll.. and roll. For effect.
A Beyonce halftime extravaganza. Ummm.... would be way more exciting than an actual soccer game. (and it would still suck)
Eliminate the goalie to allow for more scoring.
Keep it a foreign sport on Univision.
Don’t waste your time with these keyboard warriors. As I’ve noted before, if any of them ever actually found themselves on ANY playing field they’d most likely crap themselves then pass out (not necessarily in that order).
Let the players pick up the ball and either run with it until tackled or throw it. Award two points for knocking over the goalie when a player scores while holding on to the ball and one point for the conventional kick into the net.
Call the two point score a touchdown.
Call the one point score a field goal.
Break the game into either 4 quarters or 9 innings.
Get Vin Scully to call the game.
It's not a big deal.
(2) Placement only really matters some of the time. I've never heard of a throw-in spot deciding the outcome of a game.
(3) The diving is sickening. Simple rule revision: if the foul was blatant, call it. If the not-obviously-fouled player is hurt so badly that he is writhing on the pitch in pain, then he should be substituted. If all the substitutes are gone, then the side plays a man light.
Then, all of a sudden, you'd see a little less whining.
(4) The offsides rule is simple, and fine. As long as you're on the opposing team's half of the field, you can't be in front of the ball unless at least two defenders are in front of you.
It's not rocket science.
(5) Who cares if some teams are perennial achievers? The rule should be that you can choose to play for any country which considers you a citizen.
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