Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling for November 21, 2024

…y ya Billy Ray Cyrus es un zurdo.

I have two improvements:

1) Have a countdown game clock, so everyone knows how much time is left in regulation. When there is any stoppage time, simply add it to the remaining game time and adjust the clock display accordingly. With electronic scoreboards, this should not be a difficulty.

2) Eliminate the penalty shoot-out to decide games tied at the end of regulation time (plus stoppage time). Have a 10 or 15 minutes overtime period, first score in the overtime period wins. If the score is still tied at the end of the overtime period, have a second overtime period but remove the goalkeepers; again, first score wins.

All great ideas and add them to baseball, too.

Forgot the landmines on the field.

I’m confused. Soccer is already the most popular sport on the planet. Does he think “American Football” is?

What I’d like is an explanation, in simple terms, of just what “offsides” means in futbul.

In Europe, it’s called ’American soccer."

Yeah, those are pretty much the same ideas that wrecked baseball. It used to be the only sport that mattered. No there is no such thing.

I watched a soccer game once on TV where they “cornered” the ball for about 1/4th of the game, boring is an understatement. At least Cricket was so strange as to be interesting trying to figure out all the rules. Rugby is a death match which makes it fun to watch.

The “no ties” idea is actually a good one.