[discostu]

That's easy, the problem with draws is they're counter to what sports (especially in America) are all about. Sports aren't supposed to be an abstraction of life, sports are a simplification of life, part of what makes sports enjoyable is that when the final whatever (buzzer, gun, whistle, etc) does its thing (buzzes, fires, blows, etc) there is a winner and there is at least one (depending on the sport) loser, someone has been declared better than somebody else (at least on this day and with these rules). There's something innately unsatisfying in spending 3 hours watching a game and in the end nobody won, we have no declaration of superiority. Hockey had the same problem which is why they finally installed the shootout. Sports need winners and losers, without winners and losers it was all just an exercise in sweaty exuberance.

[SoothingDave]

Sports need winners and losers, without winners and losers it was all just an exercise in sweaty exuberance.

Right. Just like they say a tie is like "kissing your sister." ;-)

SD

[FostersExport]

“There's something innately unsatisfying in spending 3 hours watching a game and in the end nobody won, we have no declaration of superiority”

That’s a short-term view. No victor was declared on the day perhaps, but over the season a victor emerges.

I don’t doubt you believe what you say. My point was essentially the entire rest of the world doesn’t concur!