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To: Repulican Donkey
1) It can end in a tie;

So can American football, at least in the NFL. It doesn't happen often now, but before they added the 15 minute sudden death overtime period in 1974, it happened all the time. Multiple overtime periods only exist in the playoffs. Even some NFL players, most famously Donovan McNabb, have been unaware of this.

2)there are more fake injuries in soccer than in pro wrestling;

Yes, almost as many flops as in the NBA. It's not really different than drawing a charge.

By the way, it's interesting how diving seems to track national origins more than anything else. German, Dutch and English players are not at all like the drama queens of the Latin world.

3)waching a game in person is more dangerous in the stands than on the field since there is no “hooligan list” of American football, baseball or basketball fans.

There are still the Millwall types out there, but the hooliganism in soccer has been greatly cleaned up since your opinion of it was formed thirty years ago. I'd a lot sooner take my kid to a Premier League game than to see the Raiders play the Eagles.

98 posted on 08/19/2012 12:23:45 PM PDT by ccmay (Too much Law; not enough Order.)
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To: ccmay

Soccer is BORING!!!!!!!!


101 posted on 08/19/2012 12:31:20 PM PDT by Repulican Donkey
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