From: Jefferson N. Glapski on
On 10-06-22 08:28 AM, The Ghost Of Edward M. Kennedy wrote:
> "Jefferson N. Glapski"<jeffersonWEARE(a)PENNSTATEglapski.com> wrote
>
>>>>> Tiebreakers in a game consist of playing until someone wins.
>>>>>
>>>>> Reason #2132 why football, hockey, baseball or basketball is a sport,
>>>>> while soccer isn't.
>>>>
>>>> well, they do that in the knockout rounds. Except unlike in our football
>>>> or basketball or baseball, they resort to the bogus hockey method of a
>>>> penalty shootout as a last resort. Sad ...
>>>
>>> Except that in NHL playoffs they don't use shootouts, they play overtime
>>> periods until one team scores the tie-breaking goal. (The NHL only use
>>> shootouts during the regular season, whereas soccer is more than happy
>>> to end a regular season game in a draw.)
>>
>> Or roughly a third of World Cup games this year...
>>
>> And zero TV timeouts during NHL OT, too.
>
> If you are drinking properly, this can be a problem.

If your bar doesn't have a TV behind it with your wife serving, that is
your problem/
From: Jefferson N. Glapski on
On 10-06-22 08:28 AM, The Ghost Of Edward M. Kennedy wrote:
> "Jefferson N. Glapski"<jeffersonWEARE(a)PENNSTATEglapski.com> wrote
>
>>>> To be fair, soccer games could last FOREVER if they played until
>>>> someone scored.
>>>
>>> ...particularly considering that after 90 minutes, the average player on
>>> the pitch has run over 10 kilometres.
>>
>> Wow. 4 miles per hour. That's a very brisk WALK.
>
> I can walk that and drink 4 beers per hour.

Amateur.
From: Jefferson N. Glapski on
On 10-06-22 01:18 PM, Antonio Veranos wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Jun 2010 12:31:48 -0500, GregoryD wrote...
>
>> The percentage of time spent on a soccer field playing soccer where
>> there's a chance of a goal being scored is about 2 minutes of game time,
>> and I'm probably being extremely generous here.
>
> Bait.

Yeah, and I'm not falling for it.

2 minutes? You mean 2 seconds.
From: The Ghost Of Edward M. Kennedy on
"Jefferson N. Glapski" <jeffersonWEARE(a)PENNSTATEglapski.com> wrote

>>>>>> Tiebreakers in a game consist of playing until someone wins.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Reason #2132 why football, hockey, baseball or basketball is a sport,
>>>>>> while soccer isn't.
>>>>>
>>>>> well, they do that in the knockout rounds. Except unlike in our
>>>>> football
>>>>> or basketball or baseball, they resort to the bogus hockey method of a
>>>>> penalty shootout as a last resort. Sad ...
>>>>
>>>> Except that in NHL playoffs they don't use shootouts, they play
>>>> overtime
>>>> periods until one team scores the tie-breaking goal. (The NHL only use
>>>> shootouts during the regular season, whereas soccer is more than happy
>>>> to end a regular season game in a draw.)
>>>
>>> Or roughly a third of World Cup games this year...
>>>
>>> And zero TV timeouts during NHL OT, too.
>>
>> If you are drinking properly, this can be a problem.
>
> If your bar doesn't have a TV behind it with your wife serving, that is
> your problem/

Nature calls.

--Tedward