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[Ron Obvious]

11. We're on the same page...

We're clearly on the same page as you're identifying the other problems I have with the league. Besides which, the season is far too short! This is why e.g. Henry, Robbie Keane, Beckham and Donovan seek off-season deals to keep their fitness up. A football season should parallel a school year, not a summer vacation!

Play-offs between conference and division champions made perfect sense for historical reasons in a huge country like this one, when teams would only play each other in their division because of geographical reasons. Given inter-conference and inter-division play and 'wildcards', they make no sense whatsoever and play-offs are a poor substitute for pro/rel battles and European placings to keep interest near the end of a season in any case. Lastly, mascots and cheerleaders have to go. I like looking at pretty girls as much as the next guy, but football doesn't need these infantilisations to keep the interest alive, or at least it shouldn't.

But let me stop pissing vinegar and end on a positive note: draws are allowed to stand, and there are no more shootout tiebreakers, and that's a major improvement!

"Tell that Kraut to get his ass up front! We don't pay a million for a guy to hang around in defence!" -- New York Cosmos owner on Franz Beckenbauer.