Europe: More LMAO'ing at povertyball.

[Kawhitstorm]

My theory is that povertyball fans came up with chanting to keep themselves entertained while enduring yet another 0-0 tie.

The 7th inning "stretch" was ins uted to wake-up folks who are suffering from a food coma after chowing down on greasy hot-dogs & nachos aka the two reason that keeps obese American coming back to the park. (Besibol parks make more from concession sells than gate prices which are laughably dirt cheap thus why folks treat it as a socializing event)

[Splits]

My theory is that povertyball fans came up with chanting to keep themselves entertained while enduring yet another 0-0 tie.

I'd much rather attend a 0-0 tie in 1:45 than a 2-1 "epic" battle of nut-scratching over 6 hours SIX HOURS? WTF?

[Clipper Nation]

The 7th inning "stretch" was ins uted to wake folks up from their food coma after chowing down on greasy hot-dogs & nachos aka the two reason that keeps obese American coming back to the park. (Besibol parks make more from concession sells than gate prices which are laughably dirt cheap thus why folks treat it as a socializing event)

[Splits]

Notice how all the fans around the passed out drunk guy are having the time of their life while in US cricket the snoozing is almost contagious.

[Kawhitstorm]

Povertyball uses a pay-per-view model:

I watch the EPL for free by using a proxy to access the UK BBC site.

[Splits]

I watch the EPL for free by using a proxy to access the UK BBC site.

Check out Kodi: https://kodi.tv/

Can watch anything (movies, TV series, live TV) for free. Takes some tech knowledge to get it setup, but it ain't that hard. I put it on a $39 Amazon firestick and can basically cut all cords. You can also run it off your pooter.

[Clipper Nation]

Notice how all the fans around the passed out drunk guy are having the time of their life while in US cricket the snoozing is almost contagious.

Snoozeball fans have to chant and sing showtunes during all those 0-0 ties or else they end up like that guy.

Third-world kickball

[midnightpulp]

So you don't count hockey as an "American" sport. Got it.

The fact that a single game out of 162, can last for more than SIX ING HOURS , and they just wake up and play again the next day tells you all you need to know as to whether or not the sport requires any athleticism. It's for old people who have nothing to do but waste a third of their waking hours watching fat white guys scratch their balls.

And yes, a known start and end time to a game is an attribute, not a detriment. My life doesn't revolve around sports.

Hockey doesn't employ shootouts in the playoffs. But yeah, I don't like ties in any context. Even hockey fan CN would agree.

Since when is the only athletic trait "stamina?"

When I was younger, I would play 4 and more hours of basketball every day, during the summer, and be totally fine to do it again the next day (I would guess a lot of people on this board did the same). And I would see guys on the court basically all day, doing it every day. So basketball doesn't require any athleticism now?

Stamina is the easiest to train up. Soccer players lightly jogging around for 90 minutes isn't all that impressive nor demanding as you povertyball fans make it out to be. Strength training is the real , and NFL, MLB players put considerably more time into that area than bird-chested Messi.

Just look at that AMAZING endurance on display. They are constantly running and never just stand around!

[Splits]

Hockey doesn't employ shootouts in the playoffs. But yeah, I don't like ties in any context. Even hockey fan CN would agree.

Since when is the only athletic trait "stamina?"

When I was younger, I would play 4 and more hours of basketball every day, during the summer, and be totally fine to do it again the next day (I would guess a lot of people on this board did the same). And I would see guys on the court basically all day, doing it every day. So basketball doesn't require any athleticism now?

Stamina is the easiest to train up. Soccer players lightly jogging around for 90 minutes isn't all that impressive nor demanding as you povertyball fans make it out to be. Strength training is the real , and NFL, MLB players put considerably more time into that area than bird-chested Messi.

Just look at that AMAZING endurance on display. They are constantly running and never just stand around!

SIX HOURS AND THIRTEEN MINUTES

[Kawhitstorm]

Notice how all the fans around the passed out drunk guy are having the time of their life while in US cricket the snoozing is almost contagious.

Not to mention the gringo is the size of a whale.

[midnightpulp]

Notice how all the fans around the passed out drunk guy are having the time of their life while in US cricket the snoozing is almost contagious.

Baseball fans are so passionate, having the time of their lives to the point where they don't even let a player perform a homerun trot:



Meanwhile, soccer fans destroy cities fighting over a tie game

[Spurs 4 The Win]

Hockey doesn't employ shootouts in the playoffs. But yeah, I don't like ties in any context. Even hockey fan CN would agree.

Since when is the only athletic trait "stamina?"

When I was younger, I would play 4 and more hours of basketball every day, during the summer, and be totally fine to do it again the next day (I would guess a lot of people on this board did the same). And I would see guys on the court basically all day, doing it every day. So basketball doesn't require any athleticism now?

Stamina is the easiest to train up. Soccer players lightly jogging around for 90 minutes isn't all that impressive nor demanding as you povertyball fans make it out to be. Strength training is the real , and NFL, MLB players put considerably more time into that area than bird-chested Messi.

Just look at that AMAZING endurance on display. They are constantly running and never just stand around!

Soccer is A LOT of running, dont kid yourself based off of a cherry picked clip. At the highest level it takes insane amounts of stamina to make it through a game.

[Clipper Nation]

SIX HOURS AND THIRTEEN MINUTES

Meanwhile, I can't even watch one second of soccer without yawning and dozing off

[midnightpulp]

SIX HOURS AND THIRTEEN MINUTES

You say that like it's a bad thing.

Sports that can end in a tie aren't real sports. They're events. Soccer fans treat the game like a television show or a movie. "Don't worry, hun, we'll be out of there in 2 hours. We'll do some chanting and have plenty of time to head over to your mother's afterward." American sports fans treat their sports like sports.

[Kawhitstorm]

SIX HOURS AND THIRTEEN MINUTES

[midnightpulp]

Soccer is A LOT of running, dont kid yourself based off of a cherry picked clip. At the highest level it takes insane amounts of stamina to make it through a game.

Running isn't . It's the most popular sporting activity in US, despite the fact we're all obese. Every in' day I'm bombarded on facebook with updates by friends who ran 5, 8, 10 miles or whatever.

[Splits]

Baseball fans are so passionate, having the time of their lives to the point where they don't even let a player perform a homerun trot:



Meanwhile, soccer fans destroy cities fighting over a tie game

If fans rushed the field like that in this era, they would be shot dead

Today's MLB

[midnightpulp]

0-0 ties.

In 126 Years, English Football Has Seen 13,475 Nil-Nil Draws

What a ty in' "sport."

But at least I'm out in 2 hours

[Kawhitstorm]

Sports that can end in a tie aren't real sports.

[Splits]

You say that like it's a bad thing.

Sports that can end in a tie aren't real sports. They're events. Soccer fans treat the game like a television show or a movie. "Don't worry, hun, we'll be out of there in 2 hours. We'll do some chanting and have plenty of time to head over to your mother's afterward." American sports fans treat their sports like sports.

That is so stupid on it's face I know you don't even believe it. Try convincing ANYONE you know, wife, girlfriend, best friend, whoever, that you're going to sit down in a stadium and stay for SIX HOURS to see the outcome of a meaningless 1/162 and then get back to me. I bet you've never even done it all alone.

[midnightpulp]

I don't like it, and it does happen, but less than 1% of the time:

In the NFL, tie games were commonplace during the early stages of the league, as overtime was only played during the postseason. From 1920 to 1973, any regular season game that was tied at the end of regulation would be scored as a tie, and so the league had 258 such games until a rule change came into effect to start the 1974 season. This extended the overtime rule to the regular season, awarding a victory to the first team who scored during the overtime period.

These rules remained unchanged from 1974 until 2011, and so ties became practically a freak occurrence that happened only once every few years. In that span, only 17 games ended in a draw, with only 2 of them coming from 1998 to 2011.

So 275 instances over the NFL history. Let's give the NFL 99.9999% real sport status then.

Meanwhile:

In 126 Years, English Football Has Seen 13,475 Nil-Nil Draws

And that's just 0-0 ties . Do the math, and we're talking over 100 zero-zero ties per in' year

BRB, finding out how many ties there's been overall.

Ah...



Near 30%

So I'll grant soccer about 70% real sport status, but when I factor in diving and the fact important matches end in a Mario Party style minigame, I'll bring it down to about 50%

Sounds about right to me

[Kawhitstorm]

And half-time soccer commercials for big events are exactly that. They're slick and high budgeted, meaning advertisers see them as worth investing in. The market just isn't a lucrative as the American market, because, as I said, the majority of those adverts are being seen by 3rd worlders huddled around a black-and-white TV

The entire halftime for for the Champions league is sponsored by Heineken, they just remind the audience to take a bathroom break & grab another beer for the 2nd half.

But ^^^ if that is my primary audience and I'm the President of Advertising at Mercedes, I ain't giving jack for ad time.

The halftime for the EPL is sponsored by online gambling websites, I guess the audience doesn't have expendable income.

[midnightpulp]

That is so stupid on it's face I know you don't even believe it. Try convincing ANYONE you know, wife, girlfriend, best friend, whoever, that you're going to sit down in a stadium and stay for SIX HOURS to see the outcome of a meaningless 1/162 and then get back to me. I bet you've never even done it all alone.

Dude, those games are a relative rarity.

I can also choose not to stay if I have engagements that preclude it, but at least I know my team gets a definitive result. As an athlete, it would be more frustrating to play for 3 or 4 hours only for the match to end up in a tie. I bet if you were to poll pro soccer players, a good majority of them would be against ties, as any sportsman would.

If the Spurs were in some 6 hour long OT regular season battle with the hated Warriors or Lakers, I would want a result, even if I couldn't watch the entire match. The team already made their money. Let the players decide the outcome.

[midnightpulp]

The entire halftime for for the Champions league is sponsored by Heineken, they just remind the audience to take a bathroom break & grab another beer for the 2nd half.



The halftime for the EPL is sponsored by online gambling websites, I guess the audience doesn't have expendable income.

The adverts you get depend on where you're watching.

[Splits]

Dude, those games are a relative rarity.

Yeah, except just tonight one game lasted 6:13 and another 4:30

Complete waste of time for all parties involved.