My own solution involves everybody getting Lacrosse sticks. You are not allowed to hit the ball with them, but can use them on opposing players.
Oh, and get rid of the goalie.
>>I see soccer much the same as I saw volleyball. Every four years, if the US had a reasonable team in the Olympics, there would be a spurt of interest. The interest would then die down until the next go-round.
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>>Every four years there will be a renewed American interest in the World Cup if the US has a reasonable chance of advancing. The sport will pick up a few new adherents and will return to minor status until the next go-round.
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>>The coach of a traveling youth team explained to me why soccer will never be anything more than a niche spectator sport in the US.
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>>"Americans will never accept a sport where the phrase 'An insurmoutnable one goal lead' has a reasonable chance of being true"
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>I have a perfect solution for making soccer accepted by US sports fans. Just change the point system as the following:
>4 points for 0 goals
>9 points for each goal -- Plus:
>14 points for a goal from outside the penalty box
>19 points for a goal from inside of the penalty box.
>23 points for a header
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>And of course, some additional points for good acting.
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>I got it all figured out.
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
