Penalty kicks are the sissy way out.
Championships of real sports - like ice hockey - are played until there's only one team left standing.
Penalties are a lot like walking into a casino and putting your entire life savings on spin of the wheel. Sure, you could take your life savings in there and grind away for an outcome but I wouldn't say that either way is definitively more "manly".
I watch quite a few different sports so it is always entertaining to read nonsense opinions from people who simply must express their chosen sport as the real sport. Just to put things in perspective, if we must, a soccer game goes for 120 minutes before penalties occur. That, as you know is twice as long as your standard ice hockey game.