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Originally Posted by Bearcat
* Shootouts -- Ridiculous. It's the brute-force approach, where goalies basically have to guess which direction to dive before the ball is even kicked.
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Not necessarily. Most of the time, yes. But it's still up to the PK taker to hit the shot. That's also why they give each team an equal chance to make the PK.
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* Overtime -- Two periods with no sudden death (which makes having two periods kind of pointless if you're not going to at least stop the game if someone scores in the first period, but whatever). How can soccer not have sudden death? I'm sure it's pretty improbable that both teams would score in OT, but why take that chance? A shootout isn't the answer.
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Probably for the same reason that sudden death in OT in the NFL is stupid and ridiculous.
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* Flopping -- Yeah, I never liked Tyler Hansbrough, either.
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Can't argue there. It's stupid and I hate it. It needs to be punished far more severely.
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* No replay -- Goals are kind of important in soccer, right?
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I don't necessarily think replay is the answer. I think adding more officials would really help.
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* Extra time -- There's one guy on the field who knows when the game will end, even though they could just stop the clock every once in a while... that's uh, mildly reeruned.
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Except they hold up a big sign that tells everyone just how much extra time is left. Everyone knows how much extra time there is.