Real Men Don't Play Soccer
I was thrilled to read this article and find out that for once I am not alone. Soccer is a great sport in theory, but in practice it is just plain silly. You'd think every game was being played on an active fault line the way these guys can't stay on their feet. The amount of diving and flopping is simply pathetic. Take a page from a man's sport - hockey. If a guy flops he's penalized...or better yet...shot. And I don't care how good you think you are...two names please. You know darn well that if you are an American there was only one thing about this World Cup that provided any entertainment at all...watching France lose. And the only surprise in that match was when France came out for the second half.
Don't get me wrong. If you call me tomorrow for some pick up on the pitch, I'm there. But if you end up on the ground it's because you got beat...not fouled. Welcome to America.
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Funny I was thinking the same thing about the NBA. Everytime these elite athletes, getting paid millions, drives the lane and gets touched on the pinky finger they flail their arms up in air, crash to the floor and scream like they've been shot, just begging for the ref to bail them out, and more often than not, they get the call. Replays constanlty show refs whistling whiffs, or touches that can no way impact the shot. Then take the opposite, apparantly Tim Duncan has never committed a foul in his life, he always, always looks stunned when he gets whistled. This was most evident during the Finals, when it became clear that there's some new rule against breathing on D-Wade. Have you tried to sit through a game lately, there's a whistle on nearly every possession And that's not even mentioning flops. Seeing that in 2006, the average NBA team drew about 23 fouls, and the average World Cup team drew about 17, maybe you picked the wrong target. Even the NFL has it's version with pass interferance. Coaches have actual plays where they throw deep hoping the ref will bail them out, and the reciever definitely flops, and don't get me started on kickers. By the way, in soccer the ref does have the ability to award a yellow card to a flopper, I even saw it happen. Granted, it happens about as much as offensive pass interferance, but it's a tool. I agree, it takes away from the game, but only focusing on that is just the same as only stewing over the three steps NBAer's are illegally alloted, or palming, flopping, ticky-tack fouls, etc. If your first time watching the NBA was the playoffs and finals, you might focus on those things and miss the terrific game being played.
I agree Hockey is a man's sport, but since last seasons televised games drew fewer households than womens softball (true story), maybe it's falling off the "sport" radar.
Me, I'm all about UFC and Pride. Them's be men.
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