1. They don't review the plays. All this technology we have now, and they won't look to see what really happened. Instead, much of the outcome of the game relies on what the refs think they saw in the mass of players on the field. Here's my point illustrated:
Oh yeah, I forgot you can get called for a hand ball when it hits you in the cheek. That makes sense.
2. Soccer players are the biggest pansies in the world. Here's my point illustrated a few times:
There's tons of other videos like that.
3. How much time is left?? Today in the USA - Slovenia game, it reached the 90 minute mark and the officials added 3 minutes to the game. Then just before the 3 minutes were up, someone got injured (or so they made everyone believe. See #2.) and they played until about 94:25 or so until one of the officials blew the whistle. The announcers didn't even know if that was a whistle that signified the end of the game. What a joke!
4. There's an exciting moment every, what? Ten minutes? Good grief. That's like worse than watching baseball. (Ohh it's a pop fly! It's going to deep center! It's going.... going... oh no wait, it was caught. That's just another out, same as all the other ones.)
Sorry soccer (football) fans, but your sport sucks. The only cool thing about it is that so many people all over the world like it, which creates a vortex of cyclical confusion in my mind.
so true!
ReplyDeletealthough, truth be told, i'm still confused over why football is so popular as well...
it's long, you play for like 10 seconds and then wait forever for them to set up and start over again, and...it's long.
yeah...i'm way into sports.
american football that is :)
ReplyDeleteHey Bob. Point number three you should probably erase. In football, crap, I mean Soccer they have this thing were they don't ever stop the clock, even when the players are injured. BUT, what they do is they watch that time where they aren't playing and add all that time up. Then at the very end of the 90th minute they add whatever that time is to the end and run the game through. It's basically the same as any of our other sports just tagged on at the end instead of stopping the clocks.
ReplyDeleteOne other thing, the whole soccer players being pansies is pretty much strictly followed in Europe and other countries outside of the US. Ask B. I spent two years playing soccer against Europeans, South Americans, Africans, and Asians. The US and Africans were primarily the only ones that could take a hit and keep going. I think that they've come to just use it as part of the game.
ReplyDeleteJosh - I know they add time and keep the clock going. The point is they added 3 minutes, then still kept going. So they just keep adding time for injuries, etc. even in the overtime? If so, why don't they say how much time they're adding? It becomes a guessing game for both teams. I know it's not a perfect analogy, but what if in basketball a team didn't know how much time was left on the shot clock, or in football they didn't know how much time was left before the half or the final?
ReplyDeleteThe point is that knowing what time is left can change the decisions you make in the game.
Why Bob Sucks...
ReplyDeleteYou're lucky it's the sabbath. I had some words for you.