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06-13-2010, 02:36 PM
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I must be honest and I agree with thinking it’s a cheap pussy tactic to try to get better players out of the game. I'm not wanting to watch some scrub flop on an all star caliber player and having them sit the rest of the game. I want to watch each team besters play one another. Also another reason why I think the NBA should allow 7 fouls, to many stars fouling out as is. | |||
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06-13-2010, 03:06 PM
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Football is a far better name for 'soccer' than it is for 'American football', seeing as you primarily use your feet on only one of those games! I've tried in the past to make America change the name of their sport to handball, carryball, blitzball or crunchtime (my personal favorite), but none of the alternatives have gained much popuarity for some reason.
Totally right about the way sports have gone in Europe, though it's nothing to do with the sports themselves, rather the sportsmanship of the players. Why tough it out and stay on your feet when you can dramatically collapse like a card tower, pulling a fast one on the referee and gaining an advantage for your team? In specific regards to football, the fact that still, in 2010, no video evidence is used to unsure the right decisions are made also allows for the possiblity of referees and sporting associations (hello EUFA) to favour certain teams buy placing the decision making powers largely in the hands of one indivdual. Rugby is an exception to the above, but I can't stand that sport. For the record, despite being a Euro, crunchtime is my favorite sport to watch (perhaps next to kabadi!).
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06-13-2010, 03:15 PM
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On a related note, I actually witnessed the worst case of someone 'flopping like a pussy' at a football match, and it didn't even occur while the game was in play!
For shame, Dida. For shame! Though the guy involved was an idiot for running on the pitch, he actually got charged with assault, which is a total joke.
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06-13-2010, 03:19 PM
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Good informative response leokaiser, I'll be totally honest when I say I don’t follow soccer much if at all anymore, but if what you said is true I believe that going to the replay is a great idea. There is talk about this in the NBA, in fact people can and have gotten fines for flopping. I would love to see a soccer player get fined or kicked out of a game for flopping!
Also I don’t believe American football will ever change the name, I find it curious though that why would they name the sport after something that was already a sport? If they just called it something different from the start (Cone Ball or pyramid ball ect ect ) Americans and Euro’s wouldn’t be arguing who’s football is really the true football. | ||
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06-13-2010, 03:27 PM
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Players actually can be fined or recieve bans as a result of reviewing video footage, but only after the match, and despite the impact it had on the game, the result still stands. Referees, however, rarely, if ever, get called to account for making blatently wrong decisions. Because of this, I rate football as a suck sport. Hell, I might even start calling it soccer out of spite!
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06-13-2010, 05:08 PM
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ahhhhhhh a real game. nice
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06-15-2010, 09:06 AM
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06-15-2010, 09:30 AM
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Gonna go ahead and quote Hank Hill here:
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06-15-2010, 09:59 AM
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I've never managed to get through even the sports center highlights of soccer, much less an entire game lol.
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