Four years of hard work comes down to complete bullshit

[Emily_Haines]

At least in hockey they play until there is a winner.

Why not just flip a coin instead of this crap?

[ttwarrior1]

4 years of hard work???? Nah

[ttwarrior1]

most of the american players on this team won't be back in 4 years, probaly 90 percent

[King Mayan]

4 years of hard work???? Nah

Go eat some fried twinkies, fat fukk.

[ttwarrior1]

outlift and run u anyday, slap nut

[Nats' Fan]

Go eat some fried twinkies, fat fukk.

[Joe Dogs]

So many chances.

[pavyracer]

You leave the starting 6 in hockey for the whole OT and that game will end shortly.

[acarmelo1]

On Hockey they have shoout outs too

[Emily_Haines]

On Hockey they have shoout outs too

not in playoffs

[I/O]

I wouldn't watch a soccer game if you paid me

[ChuckyTheGoat]

How fat is TTWarrior? Bigger than Brent Crude?

[HauntingTheHoly]

So what's going on in the Soccer game? It over yet? In the middle of a shootout?

[Flight]

not in playoffs

Yes, a championship game should never end in a shootout. Go to sudden death if you must.

I feel bad for the girls.

[Flight]

So what's going on in the Soccer game? It over yet? In the middle of a shootout?

US scores first, Japan equalizes
1-1
End of regulation

Extra time, US scores first, Japan equalizes again
2-2

Onto a penalty shootout
Japan 3, US 1

[HauntingTheHoly]

Thanks for the update, Flight. I agree with OP btw, why not have the two strongest girls arm wrestle, or something?

[DiggityDaggityDo]

I'll be betting USA to win olympics. odds will be better now that they lost this game. Of course they have to qualify first.

[Mr. Jones]

Never have understood why the play in extra time in these championship soccer games is not sudden death. Seems odd to me.

[Wiggums5]

outlift and run u anyday, slap nut

wtf is a slap nut?

[Naz18]

Love it when people want to reinvent the sport when things don't go there way...

The players are tired....the game cannot go forever....

[icemaster47]

agreed it is a heartbreaking result but that is how the game is played

[mike-dub]

olympic hockey goes to shootouts. but i agree with you and think shootouts are complete horsesht and a retarded way to decide a game.

imagine if baseball went to a homerun competition after a few extra innings?

not in playoffs

[pavyracer]

They can't be playing soccer OT for ever. Since game has only 3 permanent subs players will risk injury. And if they know the game will not end in 30 minutes until someone scores they will not play as hard in the beginning of OT knowing there is too much too risk. So the OT will be really boring.

[QuantumLeap]

Thanks for the update, Flight. I agree with OP btw, why not have the two strongest girls arm wrestle, or something?

How about a hot oil wrestling tournament instead?

[HauntingTheHoly]

Love it when people want to reinvent the sport when things don't go there way...

The players are tired....the game cannot go forever....

I don't give a damn who won the game. Or maybe I slightly prefer that Japan won so I don't have to hear all the typical post victory bullshit. But the girls are tired??? That's why they should arm wrestle (or something) instead of continuing to play?

It's stupid.

[Emily_Haines]

They can't be playing soccer OT for ever. Since game has only 3 permanent subs players will risk injury. And if they know the game will not end in 30 minutes until someone scores they will not play as hard in the beginning of OT knowing there is too much too risk. So the OT will be really boring.

It should be sudden death.

Play until there is a winner.

[pavyracer]

It should be sudden death.

Play until there is a winner.

They tried it for 4 years in the 1990's and the fans hated it with passion. The whole idea of soccer OT is that you can come back after conceding a goal because many times the goals are fluke. You have to also remember when this is enforced in NHL is during a 7 game series in the playoffs where a team can come back next game after an unlucky OT loss whereas in soccer OT is one game and you are out. How you would feel if there were no playoffs in NHL and they just play one game to advance to next round and the winner is decided in sudden death OT?

[HauntingTheHoly]

They tried it for 4 years in the 1990's and the fans hated it with passion. The whole idea of soccer OT is that you can come back after conceding a goal because many times the goals are fluke. You have to also remember when this is enforced in NHL is during a 7 game series in the playoffs where a team can come back next game after an unlucky OT loss whereas in soccer OT is one game and you are out. How you would feel if there were no playoffs in NHL and they just play one game to advance to next round and the winner is decided in sudden death OT?

"Just fine" - in answer to the last question. Why not? "Fluke goals" might ruin it? You know at the end of the day it's just a bunch of apes running back and forth across a field and going nowhere, right? That's the game.

[Boscoe]

never cared for pk to determine winner.

[Regul8er]

They could still be playing for all we know.

[Igetp2s]

They tried it for 4 years in the 1990's and the fans hated it with passion. The whole idea of soccer OT is that you can come back after conceding a goal because many times the goals are fluke. You have to also remember when this is enforced in NHL is during a 7 game series in the playoffs where a team can come back next game after an unlucky OT loss whereas in soccer OT is one game and you are out. How you would feel if there were no playoffs in NHL and they just play one game to advance to next round and the winner is decided in sudden death OT?

That would be fantastic. If many of the few goals actually scored in soccer are a "fluke," that is an indictment of the entire sport, not just the OT setup.