Soccer is a beautiful game.
I dislike basketball because of what makes basketball: too many rules.
I dislike baseball because of what makes baseball: snail like pace throughout and sabremetrics.
I dislike cricket because, hey its cricket.
I dislike NFL because of a variety of reasons, chief among which is the gratuitous hits that are so common and could be part of an Uwe Boll movie and the multitude of stupid rules. You could write at least ten bibles with the NFL rulebook.
I can't say anything about the NHL because I'm not familiar with ice sports.
Rugby's cool though.
Soccer is the only game played the world over, and is also the only game which has been kept simple throughout the years because of a lack of rules. There are no breaks, particularly no commercial breaks, no pauses in the action other than halftime to change sides. The NFL is notorious for this crap, as it has been designed with advertising in mind.
As Antoine de Saint-Exupéry once said, "perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." IMO, Soccer is the closest to this. Naturally you will have a few refereeing gaffes throughout, but for instance when Pierluigi Colina was the main man of the referees the kind of shit that went down at this years World Cup was unheard of.
Soccer should not add replays ever, instead better referees should be trained and added and let us the fans keep cursing about missed goals and bogus offside calls. Oh, and the acting (particularly by Gabriel Heinze or El Niño Torres as in Wufwugy's GIF). But that is what it has always been about, why change now?
That said, hate on.
(Interesting though, 2/3 of the examples provided by Wufwugy are from La Furia Roja. Hmmmm)
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