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I find all sports boring to watch, but I like playing some of them. Basketball is my favourite. Tennis is fun too. Football's okay (European, not American).
I think it's the same with the NHL since the wage cap got in. Now any club can become great thanks to the charity draft system (in effect if you get #1 in the draft two years in a row during supertalent years you can get back to the top too easily).
Of course professional soccer has gone off the rails in the other direction due to the absurd and moronic transfer fees paid by the Manchester clubs, Real Madrid etc but the NHL system is just laughable.
At least in motorbike racing the rider's skill can outweigh a poor bike and a proper difference between competitors can be clearly visible. Marc Márquez in many aspects had an inferior bike to the Yamaha riders and certainly less powerful than the Ducati and rideable than the Suzuki but through a combination of bravery, skill and smarts he overrode it and had it wrapped up in early October. That's cool stuff
I think it's the same with the NHL since the wage cap got in. Now any club can become great thanks to the charity draft system (in effect if you get #1 in the draft two years in a row during supertalent years you can get back to the top too easily).
Of course professional soccer has gone off the rails in the other direction due to the absurd and moronic transfer fees paid by the Manchester clubs, Real Madrid etc but the NHL system is just laughable.
At least in motorbike racing the rider's skill can outweigh a poor bike and a proper difference between competitors can be clearly visible. Marc Márquez in many aspects had an inferior bike to the Yamaha riders and certainly less powerful than the Ducati and rideable than the Suzuki but through a combination of bravery, skill and smarts he overrode it and had it wrapped up in early October. That's cool stuff
It's always more fun when the underdog has a chance. In golf, of course, there's never a "favorite" to win a tournament. The best player naturally has the best chance, but that's a highly relative perspective. There are dozens of other competitors with real chances.
I think the NFL playoffs are in some ways more exciting than the NHL, MLB, and NBA playoff & championship series because it's just one game for each round. Anything can happen. On the other hand, it's much less common for an 8 seeded NHL or NBA team to beat a 1 seed in the playoffs. Of course, if it's a game 7 in the World Series or Stanley Cup Finals, then it's a different story.
I think the NFL playoffs are in some ways more exciting than the NHL, MLB, and NBA playoff & championship series because it's just one game for each round. Anything can happen. On the other hand, it's much less common for an 8 seeded NHL or NBA team to beat a 1 seed in the playoffs. Of course, if it's a game 7 in the World Series or Stanley Cup Finals, then it's a different story.
On a completely different matter, do you follow the Ukrainian soccer league anything and do you have a favourite team?
Also is Donbass soon safe enough for Shakthar to return home? Kinda sucks to build a fancy new ground only to have it shelved by rockets...
I overpaid tax and now I've been sent a cheque by HMRC.
I've never received a cheque for anything in my life. I'm surprised they still use them - literally the only person I know who uses cheques is my grandmother.
I'm surprised, checks aren't commonly used over here, but they aren't exactly rare.
My first "real" job didn't have offer direct deposit, I didn't have a bank account at the time so it didn't really bother me, aside from the fact that I was walking around with hundreds of dollars in my wallet.
I'm surprised, checks aren't commonly used over here, but they aren't exactly rare.
My first "real" job didn't have offer direct deposit, I didn't have a bank account at the time so it didn't really bother me, aside from the fact that I was walking around with hundreds of dollars in my wallet.
I think cheques are more commonly used in the US than other developed countries. It's like chip and pin was rolled out in European countries before the US.
I think the NFL playoffs are in some ways more exciting than the NHL, MLB, and NBA playoff & championship series because it's just one game for each round. Anything can happen. On the other hand, it's much less common for an 8 seeded NHL or NBA team to beat a 1 seed in the playoffs. Of course, if it's a game 7 in the World Series or Stanley Cup Finals, then it's a different story.
I agree. The NFL is my favorite professional sport. I like the NBA, but sometimes it feels too drawn out with 82 regular season games and 7 game series.
On the other hand, I think college basketball is a lot more exciting than college football. No personal bias of course.
I hate NFL, one of the best things about studying abroad was that I pretty much missed the whole NFL season and all the conversations about it
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Kinda sucks to build a fancy new ground only to have it shelved by rockets...
