I now see Hurling, Darts and Robot Fighting above the NBA

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why does the NBA suck?

  • The stars/athletes of today are borderline gay

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • David Stern

    Votes: 5 15.2%

  • Too much money. Too many spoiled players

    Votes: 7 21.2%

  • All the rules/fouls ruined the excitement/natural flow of the game

    Votes: 6 18.2%

  • The Lakers single handedly made the sport gay

    Votes: 15 45.5%
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ThaG

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I Fucked Your Mom said:
You mean, futbol?

Becuase this is America, Mr. European MIT student...we dont like yer kinda "futbol" round these here parts!
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I mean football because this is what the name of the game is and what it has been for centuries now

All the rest is a bastardization of what football is supposed to be
 
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ThaG

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2-0-Sixx said:
I don't like sports that end 0-0 on a regular basis.
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What's wrong with that?:confused:

True, it's not like we enjoy these games (although they can be really good games sometimes), but they are part of the game. Which somehow is very foreign to the american mind (that a game can end without a winner), and that's why you went so far as to change the rules in the MLS so that it doesn't happen

MLS experimented with deviations from IFAB rules and standards in its early years, some of which had been used in the NASL and continue to be used in college soccer and many high-school conferences.

Among them was the use of a countdown clock — rather than a standard progressive clock — with time paused for dead ball situations at a referee's discretion. Halves ended when the clock reached 0:00, rather than at the whistle of the referee as was customary elsewhere.

Also implemented was the use of shootouts to resolve tie games. These best-of-five contests pitted a player 35 yards from goal with five seconds to put the ball past a goalkeeper; if needed the shootout headed into extra frames. A winning team received one standings point (as opposed to three for the regulation win).

While IFAB rules allow teams to substitute three players during games, MLS allowed a fourth, goalkeeper-only substitute. MLS discarded the rule after 2003 and adopted the IFAB standard, prompted in part by a match in which MetroStars coach Bob Bradley used a loophole to insert outfield player Eddie Gaven as a fourth substitute.

MLS eventually conceded that the rules changes, particularly the shootout, had alienated some traditional soccer fans while failing to draw new American sports fans as hoped. The shootout and countdown clock were eliminated after the 1999 season.

MLS continued to experiment with the settling of tie games in regular-season play. In 2000, a 10-minute golden-goal period replaced the shootout for tied games. It was abandoned after 2003. The golden-goal overtime remained through 2004 for playoff matches, where it had been used since the league's start.

In 2005 the league adopted a playoff extra-time structure that followed new IFAB standards for such situations: two full 15-minute periods, followed by penalty kicks if necessary. The away goals rule is not used in any playoff round.
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ThaG said:
What's wrong with that?:confused:

True, it's not like we enjoy these games (although they can be really good games sometimes), but they are part of the game. Which somehow is very foreign to the american mind (that a game can end without a winner), and that's why you went so far as to change the rules in the MLS so that it doesn't happen
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We hate soccer for the same reasons we hate hockey...they are national sports in Canada.

The US doesnt like football, and the rest of the world doesnt like football...quite strange dont you think?
 
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I Fucked Your Mom said:
We hate soccer for the same reasons we hate hockey...they are national sports in Canada.

The US doesnt like football, and the rest of the world doesnt like football...quite strange dont you think?
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Not really

See, the reason why people who love football (that includes Europe, South America and Africa) hate American Football is that it is the total opposite of everything that football is

Where the real game can be an art, created by real masters, American football is mindless pushing and kicking of some melon-like object by some steroid-injected half-human, half-ox creatures

It is the total opposite of everything that makes the game an art, and you dare to call it with the same name and in the same time spit on the real thing by calling it "soccer"

BTW this is the reason why basketball is the only US game that is popular outside the U.S, because it can be an art too. Not that it is an art outside the US, for a number of reasons, but it can be. While baseball and american football are static positional games where there is nothing remotely resembling art
 
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ThaG said:
Where the real game can be an art, created by real masters, American football is mindless pushing and kicking of some melon-like object by some steroid-injected half-human, half-ox creatures
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whaaaaaaaaaat??? there is hella strategy in american football, probably much, much more complex than soccer.

And sorry if you get offended that we call it soccer, that's just what it's called here (I have no idea why).
 
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Fucky McFuckerson

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ThaG said:
Not really
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You obviuosly missed the irony i was merely pointing out...and now you spew all this:

See, the reason why people who love football (that includes Europe, South America and Africa) hate American Football is that it is the total opposite of everything that football is

Where the real game can be an art, created by real masters, American football is mindless pushing and kicking of some melon-like object by some steroid-injected half-human, half-ox creatures

It is the total opposite of everything that makes the game an art, and you dare to call it with the same name and in the same time spit on the real thing by calling it "soccer"

BTW this is the reason why basketball is the only US game that is popular outside the U.S, because it can be an art too. Not that it is an art outside the US, for a number of reasons, but it can be. While baseball and american football are static positional games where there is nothing remotely resembling art
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No offense, but why are you getting all butt hurt over a fuckin sport? Homie, this aint the GOM forum, OK...so please leave all the intellectual debating crap for that forum. We are merely having a laugh and you gettin all serious over a fuckin name of a sport.

Not to mention, insulting an AMERICAN sport on a message board made up of mainly AMIERCAN people.

Cool your fuckin jets.
 
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ThaG

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2-0-Sixx said:
whaaaaaaaaaat??? there is hella strategy in american football, probably much, much more complex than soccer.

And sorry if you get offended that we call it soccer, that's just what it's called here (I have no idea why).
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well, yeah, there is hella strategy but this only makes it a more static and creatively constrained game

you never get those moment of eruption of ingeniousness and inspiration, such as these:





 
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