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How to make soccer more exciting?

Ooh yes...and possibly landmines.

Too much?

Man sometimes I wish Rollerball was real.

Actually, and for any old school 2000AD fans out there, I wish Mean Arena was real as well :lol:
 
Davros said:
If the point of the contest is to win, and the score determines the winner, how is the score not important?
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The score is important but the way you win (or lose) is maybe more important. That's what we call "l'art et la manière" in French.
I'd rather lose a good match than win without elegance.
 
WHF said:
I wonder if one of the reasons that football doesn't catch on in the US is because there are no ready made commercial breaks. Without commercial breaks it isn't very appealing to the American networks and without exposure on network TV the public won't develop an interest in the sport.
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Racing seems to have figured it out. Still needs the kinks worked out IMO, but it's something to start with.
Chaos Descending said:
Trivia: The various codes of football are called "foot" ball not because they are played with the foot, but rather because they are played on foot (peasant style), as opposed to being played on horseback, like polo and other upper-crust games of antiquity were.
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Huh. I've never heard this one before. Makes sense - wikipedia seems to agree with you (not that that means much).
 
That looks much more interesting. In the interests of fairness, however, I think both sides should be armed.
 
"You have to be thinking, get the ball to Billy Cole..."

Man I love that film but probably haven't seen it in more than five years! Quite an undertated little gem.

I agree with Deckerd though, both sides need to be armed, and I'm sure they can do better than pistols...
 
I have to agree that the comment that baseball is boring. Even a close game lacks excitement.

WHF said:
I wonder if one of the reasons that football doesn't catch on in the US is because there are no ready made commercial breaks. Without commercial breaks it isn't very appealing to the American networks and without exposure on network TV the public won't develop an interest in the sport.
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Totally agree with this. Racing gets away with no advertising commercial breaks because the drivers and cars are covered in it. It's also, at least in Canada, very rarely on any kind of network television wit the exception of Fox.

Soccer doesn't catch on in North America because there isn't fast things or violence. Just look at Mixed Martial Arts. You can't tell me that's popular because of the "art of fighting". It's popular cause the guys fight until they get their head bashed in.
 
CommanderRaytas said:
And why the hell is American football (some strange offsping of rugby) called football at all? They carry the ball around in their arms...like Brazilian football star Luis Fabiano on the pitch.
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Football (all codes, association, rugby, gridiron, aussie, gaelic) is called "football" because it is played on foot, not necessarily with the foot. This contrasts with games that were played on horseback in the middle ages. Games on foot were for peasants, games on horse were for gentry.

B.J. said:
Chaos Descending said:
Trivia: The various codes of football are called "foot" ball not because they are played with the foot, but rather because they are played on foot (peasant style), as opposed to being played on horseback, like polo and other upper-crust games of antiquity were.
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Huh. I've never heard this one before. Makes sense - wikipedia seems to agree with you (not that that means much).
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Wikipedia, like any Encyclopedia, is only as good as its source references. The part of the wiki article you linked to seems to be sourced to this:

http://www.icons.org.uk/theicons/collection/fa-cup/biography/history-of-football

In its oldest versions, any part of the body could be used to control the ball or tackle opponents. The name it acquired refers not to the fact that only the feet could be used to propel the ball, but that the game was played on foot. This marked it out as a game played by ordinary people, as distinct from the team games of the nobility which were played on horseback. Before this it was generally known simply as “ball” or “gameball” (game then meaning any kind of fight).
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http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,420024,00.html

“Football was an essentially popular game,” writes Murray, “and the name originally referred to any ball game played on foot rather than on horseback.”
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Oh and another pet peeve of mine is when foreigners (particularly the British) sneer and say, "It's called FOOTBALL" when an American calls it "soccer". The BRITISH named it "soccer", not us. Don't blame us for calling it by the name that YOU gave it.
 
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Chaos Descending said:
Oh and another pet peeve of mine is when foreigners (particularly the British) sneer and say, "It's called FOOTBALL" when an American calls it "soccer". The BRITISH named it "soccer", not us. Don't blame us for calling it by the name that YOU gave it.
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The whole world calls it football. Apart from North America. Don't get all whiney because you got it wrong.
 
It's a name. It's not the "right" one, since it was invented by some toff in Victorian times. The British call it football.
 
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