What is the worst rule in all of sports, in your opinion?

[Buck]

Let's hear em?

I'll post mine in my next post as to not sway this thread one way or another in the OP.

[Discuss Thrower]

Originally Posted by MahiMike

I hear ya and understand your opinion. I know quite a bit about soccer. My son plays travel soccer, my in-laws play in Europe, etc. But to call it organized is just incorrect. Have you ever seen a player hold up 2 fingers as if to call a play in soccer? No, because there are no set plays. Thus, unorganized.

Now, you take away the off-sides and things change. Now you can deep kick to a 3 on 1 break and see some scoring.

The whole idea is moot because they will never change it. Just saying this rule is THE reason why soccer isn't popular in America.

Or the game devolves into a contest who can camp out at the opposing goal the best.

[loochy]

Originally Posted by MahiMike

I hear ya and understand your opinion. I know quite a bit about soccer. My son plays travel soccer, my in-laws play in Europe, etc. But to call it organized is just incorrect. Have you ever seen a player hold up 2 fingers as if to call a play in soccer? No, because there are no set plays. Thus, unorganized.

Yes, actually quite often on a set piece (corner kick or free kick). Those are practiced quite often and they aren't just a mess of guys running at the goal. The players know where they are moving to ahead of time and the kick taker knows where he wants to put the ball. In high school we practiced this for 30 minutes every day.

Mahi, professional soccer is INCREDIBLY organized considering the constant flowing with no timeouts.

Originally Posted by MahiMike

Now, you take away the off-sides and things change. Now you can deep kick to a 3 on 1 break and see some scoring.

No, you'll see camping with lots of back and forth long balling.

Originally Posted by MahiMike

The whole idea is moot because they will never change it. Just saying this rule is THE reason why soccer isn't popular in America.

Meh, I'm happy with the way things are.

[Dayze]

finishing a race under caution in F1.

[loochy]

Originally Posted by Dayze

finishing a race under caution in F1.

Yeah, that sucks. Give them a little bit under green to at least give an exciting finish.

[Megbert]

I hate when the offense is backed up to its goal line. 1st and 10 at the 2. First play offense is called for holding so they get backed up 1 yard (holding happened outside end zone) so now it's 2nd and 11. Why not move the First down marker out 10 yards to the 22 yard line? Thus penalizing the offense as if the penalty happened in th middle of the field.

[Dayze]

Originally Posted by AZORChiefFan

I hate when the offense is backed up to its goal line. 1st and 10 at the 2. First play offense is called for holding so they get backed up 1 yard (holding happened outside end zone) so now it's 2nd and 11. Why not move the First down marker out 10 yards to the 22 yard line? Thus penalizing the offense as if the penalty happened in th middle of the field.

[mikeyis4dcats.]

that rule where the team that blocks a punt doesn't get to recover it that burned the Chiefs a couple of years ago against Indy.

[morphius]

Originally Posted by AZORChiefFan

I hate when the offense is backed up to its goal line. 1st and 10 at the 2. First play offense is called for holding so they get backed up 1 yard (holding happened outside end zone) so now it's 2nd and 11. Why not move the First down marker out 10 yards to the 22 yard line? Thus penalizing the offense as if the penalty happened in th middle of the field.

I can't come up with a very good argument against that.

[ptlyon]

Originally Posted by Dayze

"As the chiefs line up, it'll now be 1 St & 60 from the chiefs 2"

[Dayze]

and they'll call a draw play.

[mdchiefsfan]

Originally Posted by Dayze

and they'll call a draw play.

they'll never see it coming

[lcarus]

Originally Posted by AZORChiefFan

I hate when the offense is backed up to its goal line. 1st and 10 at the 2. First play offense is called for holding so they get backed up 1 yard (holding happened outside end zone) so now it's 2nd and 11. Why not move the First down marker out 10 yards to the 22 yard line? Thus penalizing the offense as if the penalty happened in th middle of the field.

Hmm, that's a pretty good point. Since there really isn't a penalty in that situation (what...half a yard or half an inch?) assuming the holding is not in the end zone, why NOT move the sticks farther downfield? As it is now, you're better off just holding in that situation if you're a lineman about to get beat.

[Demonpenz]

Handballs and fouls inside the box in soccer that are not called for PK's drive me batty. In general the officials that don't make correct calls because they want the "players to decide the game" make me batty. Call the game correct or make the rules state "In the event of a close fought game a ref shall not get involved the game even if there are rules violations".

Speed up baseball games. A Shot clock (pitch clock) for pitchers. I hate that relievers have warm up tosses when they come to the mound they should have the warmed up in the pen and be ready to go when they come in.

There are tons of them in football but I am not going into that. I think hockey fights and hockey goons are lame as well.

[Backwards Masking]

Originally Posted by chiefzilla1501

The shady bounty shit in New Orleans is exactly why QB protections are in place. The Saints cheated by taking cheap shots at QBs. They succeeded in knocking Kurt Warner and Brett Favre out of critical playoff games. Quite possible they won the Minnesota game by cheating, because Favre didn't return for the critical last series of the game.

It's not cheating if the refs don't call it.

This post and the example that went with it is are just further proof that Roughing The Passer is the most biased call. Brees and Nowleans were the feel good story that year, Favre was the arrogant prima donna traitor of all arrogant prima donna traitors. The league knew they wouldn't sell nearly as much merchandise if an asshole won the SB, so they looked the other way when New Orleans defense raped him. The Saints didn't get to do that to Pey Pey the next game , but if they had played a random Browns or Chiefs QB the refs wouldve more or less said "Rape On!!!"

The league only wants to protect the likable QB's that sell the most merchandise, they couldn't care less about the safety of the nobodies and assholes, and that's bullshit

[Dayze]

Originally Posted by Backwards Masking

It's not cheating if the refs don't call it.



The league only wants to protect the likable QB's that sell the most merchandise, they couldn't care less about the safety of the nobodies and assholes, and that's bullshit

Yep