Unpopular opinions
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Screw that CC, Crue rules
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Football, or soccer to Americans, is dumb for the following reasons:
- The size of the field varies from stadium to stadium. And don't tell me baseball does the same thing, because futbol varies in the truly important measurements, like goal line to goal line. That's like having first base be 80 feet from home plate in one stadium and 100 feet away in another.
- The clock doesn't stop during play stoppages; time gets added on at the end of the game, but only the official knows exactly how much. "Hey guys- just keep going until I say stop. That doesn't play havoc with your attempts to make strategic decisions, does it?"
- Every World Cup, they introduce a new ball. And it's a complete surprise, given to them by whichever company paid for the right to do so. To summarize, in the world's largest sport, in the world's largest tournament, the single most important piece of equipment gets changed, without any input by players or coaches, or any chance to use it before the competition. That's like having Puma show up at the Olympic starting line and telling the runners, "Here. These are your new shoes. I know you've never run in high tops before, but our marketing department says you'll love them. Or at least the viewers watching you across the globe will."
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Amen. I think that soccer could be fixed pretty easily with a few tweaks. First make the pitch the same size on all stadiums. Second introduce the penalty box concept. A misconduct to me is like when somebody takes a swing at another player. Calling a missed slide tackle a misconduct in potentially having a player thrown from the game for it is excessive. Save the cards for true misconduct, introduce a penalty box concept, and I think a lot of the flopping in flailing goes away. I agree with your assessment of the way they keep time as well; it's really silly to count up instead of down to a moving, unclear target and also not to have stoppages and to have extra time at the end of the game. Last, and this is the most ridiculous rule, is that there need to be sudden-death overtimes. Soccer is one of the sparsest scoring games where initial possession means the least, and that's why it makes the most sense and is the most equitable of all sports to have a sudden-death overtime.
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Americans - The rest of the world disagrees with your assessment (as usual)
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Argumentum ad populum!
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Argumentum ad ignorantium !
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Far from it. I used to play that incredibly boring game.
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I used to play the violin, it doesn't make opinion on classical music any more valid.
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Yes, but it does make you less ignorant about the violin…
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Americans - The rest of the world disagrees with your assessment (as usual)
Did I ever say that American sports are better? Or even more rational?
I think you're just being defensive because your head is approximately the same size and shape as a soccer ball.
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Not to the point where I would use my "experience" as a validator for determining classical music was boring, that would be both incorrect and flawed, but please keep building your straw man if it pleases you
I get it anyway, I point out that 2 American sports are just girls sports in the UK, and your football is really just slowed down rugby with extra padding, so you guys get to rag on REAL football for a while.
Have at it boys, I'm off to bed in a minute and when I wake up REAL football will still be the biggest sport in the world, despite the lack of embrace from the colonies
Keep smiling
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Whoops, I didn't notice you had posted, sorry Chris. Fortunately you didn't say anything of merit
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No straw man, just ideas to improve the sport (have some on all American sports too) which were shot down by a formal logical fallacy (the most ironic one possible in this thread) and then as being based on ignorance, which is what I was addressing with my experience with the game.
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OK, you win. Good night
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Yeah if you hate a sport chances are the fantasy version is a wash
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Definitely pulling for Mega if I don't win our league, just so I can hear the trash-talking. Sorry Americans
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I will construct a Benedict Arnold outfit and ride in an open topped parade down 5th Avenue
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Whoops, I didn't notice you had posted, sorry Chris. Fortunately you didn't say anything of merit
Do I ever?
