You can't change the basics in football without ruining it. Yeah, some games are boring, but when you compare those bore draws with quality like Man Utd's or Liverpool's comebacks in the Champions League final, or my personal favourite, Middlesbrough coming back from 3-0 down on aggregate, to win in the semi-final of the UEFA cup!!! That's what makes the game special, and you can't change it just to entice the American audience.
I've tried watching the NFL and there's no flow to the game. One side loses the ball, so they take off the actual athletes, and put on a load of out of shape lard arses instead!!! Thats just cheating!
The NBA and the NHL are entertaining, and if there was one thing I would like to see introduced to football (soccer!) it would be some kind of sin bin for some fouls. Players might not be so quick to make 'professional' fouls if they would be off the pitch for 5 or 10 minutes.
(I'll probably get slammed now for daring to criticise the NFL!
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