Yanks will be just about the last to do so. They have a brand new Stadium in this day and age and named it Yankee Stadium. They passed up a lot of money in naming rights. I think they are the only stadium under 20 years old to not to sell naming rights.
Eh, soccer is boring. It’s boring because I never grew up with it, didn’t grow up in a soccer playing/viewing culture, and, iirc, never attended a school that had a soccer team until I went to UGA, and, as such, I have no feel or understanding of the game.
In other words, it’s not soccer. It’s me.
Shoot-outs suck but sadly, no one has come up with a better way. There have been multiple threads here about so-called better ways to settle knockout matches. We toss them about and debate them but I’ve never seen a better answer here or elsewhere.
It’s like democracy: “penalty shootouts are the worst way to decide a winner… except for all the others.”
It is amusing to watch people who don’t seem to understand much about the game offer earnest and sincere suggestions for improving the settlement of draws in knockouts. Ideas like: perpetual extra-time periods until there’s a winner (or everyone is dead); corner kick contests;* reducing* the number of players at certain intervals; increasing the width of the goal(!) at certain intervals… the loopiness goes on and on.
Before it was changed to a penalty shootout they would draw lots to decide who advanced. I think most people—fans of the game or not—agree that penalties are an improvement over flipping a coin to decide who advances after a draw.
It doesn’t affect the outcome of the game anyway in terms of a team’s record; the game is recorded as a draw.
I should add there is a better idea for settling a draw in a knockout round but it still involves a penalty shootout. It works exactly like the system in place now except the penalties are taken after the end of regular time (after 90 minutes).
Then, two 15-minute halves of extra-time are played. If the game is still tied after extra-time the team the won the penalty shootout advances to the next round. This ratchets up the intensity in extra-time because the team that lost the penalties knows it will lose unless it can outscore their opponents on the field in ET.
I’ve seen it called “The 90 Minute Penalty” but I don’t know if that is common.
The Yankees name is itself a powerful brand. Essentially they are selling advertising and naming rights, the’re just doing it with themselves instead of AmazonPepsi or FacebookBenz.
Fair enough.
Yeah, that’s about right, at least if football is concerned. I don’t participate in football threads much other than the last three WC threads, and Novelty Bobble has shown time and time again that he knows his shit about football. I’m almost all the time with him, and I’m a supporter of the fucking Panzers!
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IMO you should have spelled that out the first time. Please don’t make people have to ask you or someone else what your acronyms mean. Just because it’s a common acronym to you doesn’t mean it’s known to all. It just seems lazy.
USA, LOL, IMO, and such are fine… things like **GIS, AFM, WWCSF, ** or ** JLP **are not. I’m sure all the kids are doing it but… no. Folks should either post from their big-boy computers with real keyboards or learn to type more betterly on their phones.
JLP = Justice League of Peru?
OP is a snowflake.
I salute his antagonist.
I hate it when some people try to disparage footy by lumping players in with gynecologists, Long John Silver impersonators, and philosophers of the late nineteenth century Germany and ancient Greece.
Egregious lumpism.
I gotta say, as an outsider, some of those solutions sound pretty awesome. More exciting than the shootouts, anyway.
If I had my druthers I like would be to make the penalty shoot out more like a breakaway chance at goal. Ball starts a mid field, two forwards have 30 seconds to score against one defense-man and one goalie. If the time ends or the ball leaves the field of play the chance is over. Then the next team gets a try. First team to score an unanswered point wins.
While I admire your Neymar like trolling skills; your criticism of soccer has all the intellectual vigor of something Trump would tweet. You are living up to your user name.
Too bloody right.
A scrounger, a parasite, a pervert, a worm, a self-confessed player of the pink oboe, a man, who by his own admission, chews pillows.
An insufferable Pommie bastard, made all the more insufferable because he knows his onions.
Prick. Total Prick. Totally.
And assuredly when an unreductable bounder and cad like Novelty Bubble decides to pull a stat from his arse it will be manifestly more insightful than the purile dross posted by the OP.
I don’t even think Novelty Bubble is his real name.
The utter bastard!
When the Novelty wears off we are only left with the slime. 