re: Tiger Stadium is a beautiful and imposing edifice

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Post about soccer...the rant laughs at dat.

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Several times, I've given a legitimate effort to like soccer. It just doesn't happen for me.

While I do appreciate the national pride and support at the World Cup, the game itself is just too flawed. Very low scoring means the winner is decided too often by a lucky bounce or silly penalty kick, horrible offensive rules that prevent scoring, lots of flopping, too much "icing" of the ball, and draconian penalties for minor penalties in the box resulting in penalty kicks (which make it FAR TOO EASY to score) and have far too much of an effect on the game.

With a few tweaks to the rules making average scores of 6-5, soccer would be a very fun game to watch. But the purists will never allow it.