Sunday, June 20, 2010

Stupidest rule in all of sports

Offsides in soccer.

In the US / England game, the US took 4 shots, which is one every 22 minutes.
The Brits took 8 shots, or one every 11 minutes.

Dont get me wrong -- every 4 years, I can get just as excited about soccer as I do about my annual prostate check, but its not something I'd pay money to go watch, ever. Soccer either.

So... the minute that a basically 200 year old rule gets changed to allow cherry picking is the day I go see the Raleigh Railhawks.

2 comments:

The Sidekick said...

I'm assuming that Gee has reamed you about this already, so there's no point in me doing it, but you're wrong.

The one change that I'd like to see is something akin to once you're inside the penalty box, there is no offside (obviously my general idea would need some tweaking).

The Sidekick said...

Also, this was the stupidest rule in all of sport (fortunately, it was a one time thing).