On the other hand, for fans of yellow cards, there were fireworks aplenty.
Final
Chicago 0
Kansas City 0
Substitutions
CHICAGO SUBSTITUTION: Patrick Nyarko for Tomasz Frankowski in the 62nd minute
CHICAGO SUBSTITUTION: Stephen King for Chris Rolfe in the 77th minute
KANSAS CITY SUBSTITUTION: Nelson Pizarro for Aaron Hohlbein in the 80th minute
KANSAS CITY SUBSTITUTION: Ryan Pore for Josh Wolff in the 84th minute
KANSAS CITY SUBSTITUTION: Ivan Trujillo for Claudio Lopez in the 84th minute
CHICAGO SUBSTITUTION: Daniel Woolard for Gonzalo Segares in the 89th minute
Yellow Cards
CHICAGO CAUTION: Bakary Soumare in the 21st minute
CHICAGO CAUTION: Diego Gutierrez in the 55th minute
CHICAGO CAUTION: Cuauhtemoc Blanco in the 57th minute
KANSAS CITY CAUTION: Roger Espinoza in the 59th minute
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You call 4 cards plenty? You have much to learn, young Skywalker.
Did they say whether it was a pulsating, exciting 0-0, or a dull, boring 0-0. Oh, I forgot, this is America. Doesn't matter, 0-0= why do we pay any attention to dis phokking sport?
Ugh. How many times to explain. Every sport is different right. Soccer is special because you can still have the 0-0 draw. Think of it like grade inflation. How much does a basket mean in basketball? Admittedly a 0-3 football game can be spectacular. A 0-1 baseball game can be a "perfect game." But they don't happen too much. There is to much grade inflation. Soccer returns us to a simpler time. A goal is an incredible, incredible thing. Even a scoring opportunity can be miraculous, especially when your opponent is in a "bunker" defense. Better yet your post mentions the single most unique feature of soccer - where the substittion and penalties conflate. While other sports suspend players, and have additive penalties nothing in any sport that I can recall is as devastating as a red card. What other sport would force you to play a man down for a game. Again, like a goal, the red card is a rare treat that can be savored. The entire game is designed to run completely contrary to the modern American sound-byte, immediate gratification trend that has plagued baseball through the steroid era and is killing hockey.
The entire game is designed to run completely contrary to the modern American sound-byte, immediate gratification trend...
Uh-oh, I guess that means you're not going to like my idea for overtimes - which is (glad you asked!) that instead of going to silly penalty kicks, they release a hungry cheetah onto the field every two minutes, and with the ensuing carnage - a treat in itself by the way - more and more open field opens up making scoring progressively easier.
We could also try this in lieu of red cards, except the cheetah would not necessarily go after the right player...
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