Posted on 05/23/2015 5:11:00 AM PDT by foreverfree
I posted this question in another thread but got no response so...
Who else has been watching the Barclays Premier League for the last 5 years on "the networks of NBC Universal" (and before that, ESPN)?
Anyone else notice that when a player comes off for a sub (or after the game), they applaud their team's fans? Who besides me thinks that looks a little gay?
I'm considering stopping watching soccer for that reason (although I'll watch Newcastle try to stave off relegation tomorrow [only recently did I tire of the returned applause gesture (just a wave will do IMO)]).
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>>As opposed to a sport where the quarterback puts his hands on another another guy’s “sack” to start a play from scrimmage, and then throws the ball to a tight end?
Hey, a player who is a tight end is better than the typical “loose end” soccer player.
Then, in outrage, the fans would throw beer cups at the player.
Then, maybe, the player would respond by kicking the ball into the crowd and hitting someone in the head.
Yeah, that would be fun to watch...
What’s wrong with appreciating the fans?
Of course not because it's all about them.
Please don’t put pictures of you and your boyfriend on FR, ok fudge packer?
It’s a very gentlemanly thing to do which shows good sportsmanship.
Original post is low rent.
Baseball.
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I haven’t played since middle school(and baseball always was my game anyway) but I watch the World Cup and the Euro leagues when they are on.
Or where a 300lb behemoth happens to collapse on a loose ball and breaks out a chest slapping display or fruity celebration dance demarking his great accomplishment. The gayest thing about it is the cool players can’t or won’t self police the swishyness. Same thing with a 7 footer dunking with no one near him and then giving a hulk pose. Lame.
Freegards
He just wanted to call someone gay. Very weird. He might have some issues himself.
The lack of scoring is the most basic problem (although hockey and baseball have also produced quite a number of typical soccer scores lately). Soccer scoring can be increased somewhat by obvious rules changes, beginning with making the goal mouth wider and higher. (Same holds for ice hockey.)
As for the clock, I'd suggest that just as in just about every other sport where the game is timed, the time remaining should be shown on a big scoreboard in minutes and seconds, and that the clock be stopped when the game is not in motion, like for a foul, a ball out of bounds, or a goal. Not stopping the clock for these situations currently allows teams with leads to bleed the clock without playing the game.
And yes, the idea of a shootout breaking a tie in a championship game is ABSURD. Here you have a game where scoring is rare, and the shootout is an event where scoring is quite likely. It simply does not test the vast majority of skills that are seen during the "regular" game. I would compare the soccer shootout to a (hypothetical) free throw shooting contest to break a tie in basketball or a (hypothetical) field goal kicking contest to break a tie in American football. Both scenarios are as inane as a soccer shootout.
Gee, heaven forbid if players actually recognize the people who help pay their salaries.
That's a fairly recent rules change for the NHL and they probably "stole" the idea, bad as it is, from soccer.
Nothing wrong with a tied hockey result for a regular season game, especially if five minutes of sudden death overtime with four skaters on a side doesn't produce a tie-breaking goal. That's where things should have stayed but they didn't leave good enough alone.
Thankfully, they don't have shootouts in the NHL playoffs, but rather play until someone scores in sudden death overtime, which is the way it always has been and the way it should always be.
Enough with the selfies already!
Remind me to never hire you to run a company. Why would soccer address a problem that doesn't exist? It's far and away the world's most popupar sport and growing steadily in the U.S.
fwiw, I love soccer but would rather get several root canals than have to spend much time with the fans that attend games here in the US. Most come across as liberals that felt some need to jump on a sport bandwagon.
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