Americans hate ties so much that pigskin football was forced to implement effective tie breakers.
"Effective?" LOL--Why do they need to keep changing the tie-breaker rules, seemingly every year? And that goes for the NCAA and the NFL.
Inconclusive results in sports are un-American.
No, they were American, until corporate America decided otherwise. And hey, it's cool . . . just like Chevy pickups are "American."
I will grant you the point about diving. It's worse in soccer than American sports, because Americans are complacent about diving if someone on "their" team does it.
_____
*just one sport where a draw result was acceptable at one time
Embellishment City Part 3 [NHL dives]I guess hockey is a Canadian sport, but I don't feel like finding examples of diving in the NFL or NBA.
As a long time hockey fan I HATE the shootouts in hockey, it’s artificial to settle a sport through a method that really isn’t the sport. It’s like settling a baseball game with a home run derby, or a football game with a PPK competition. I don’t even like them dropping to 4 on 4. They should either accept ties, or go to the playoff format.
The NFL’s only made one tweak to OT, and it kind of sucks. The funny part is the “problem” they were trying to solve (first possession OT wins happening so often) basically evaporated without the rule actually doing anything, teams just started scoring less often on the first OT possession.