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Why is football so appealing when there is clearly so much wrong with the game? In no other game are officials this griped about, and in no other game do they have this much power. Except maybe in World Cup soccer when a single ref can simply expel half a soccer team for commiting only two fouls each.
Other stupid points on football: If the ball had gone to OU they would have run out the clock and won, and we all know how exciting running out the clock is on a game. What other sport can be won simply by NOT PLAYING IT? Which is why I think basketball should get rid of the shot clock. We need more sports that can be won by not playing the game at hand.
If OU could kick a freaking feild goal, or have their defense show up more than every 4th time out on the field, maybe they wouldn't have failed so miserably. Of course, we know how King feels about kicking in football (it shouldn't be there)...which is a good point that only furhter shows how stupid a game football is.
I'm consistently disgusted by football, its irregularities, and its extended periods of absolutely nothing happening. Or how about college football's lack of a playoff, which, as has already been mentioned, only exacerbates the problems in the game by giving them that much more import.
Ugh, count me out. Cyclists may use drugs, but at least you know who won at the end of the day. Baseball has its moments in bad umping, but there are so many other opportunities to win the game, who cares. Basketball is at least consistently exciting and offers the chance to come back from a significant deficit, and the ref can't change how well you shoot a ball. Only football, week in and week out, is consistently boring to watch EXCEPT when refs make mistakes, I guess. And in the 5% of games each week that are competitive. What a great sport.
And seriously, I'm not just some guy who had a bad football coach experience or who got beat up by football players in high school or who wants to make silly comments about how silly those outfits are or whatever. I really feel that football lacks merit as a competitive sporting event.
