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• Only a matter of getting used to (Score:2)

  by ethan (3163)

  I think you find it lame because there is no real shoot-out tradition in US sports.
  
  In European sports it is a common element in games, especially in play-off soccer games. They have an overtime of twice 15 minutes and if the match is still tied, it's penalty shooting.
  
  One can muse about the injustice of winning or losing a game based on a duel between goalie and the one shooting. But some of the most memorable games in football have actually been decided that way. It's the occasion where heroes and deadbeats
  • Re:Only a matter of getting used to (Score:1)

    by theguvnor (1723) on 2005.10.25 7:00 (#44127)

    s/US sports/North American sports/ If Europeans like shootouts, more power to them in their leagues. I intensely dislike shootouts for all the reasons Chris outlines: basically it's a chintzy way to decide a game where two teams have fought equally hard over 65 minutes, *and* I see no reason to _force_ a winner and a loser through a clunky mechanism that artificially reduces a team game to individual efforts. I cannot fathom why ties are unacceptable to so many people.

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