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• bhamlin@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Pretty sure this will trigger offsides, unless they also trap an opposing team player and take them with them…

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  • Lumidaub@feddit.org ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    A hostage.

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  • groet@feddit.org ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Exactly the opposite. Offsite means it is illegal to pass the ball to a player behind the last defender and instead you must walk the ball around said last defender. This tactic is all walking and zero passing so offsite never applies.

    Instead its illegal because you are holding the ball. Every move where the ball is stuck for more than like a second is a foul.

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    • ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      What if one guy just bounced the ball on his head constantly while the other 10 players surround him tightly?

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  • Feathercrown@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Offsides is the most bullshit rule ever invented. “You’re behind all our defenders!!!” Yeah no shit that’s because I’m trying to SCORE

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    • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yeah, I have similar feelings about hockey. Your team’s offense can’t be in front of the puck until it is on the opposing team’s side of the rink. Which functionally means you can’t pass the puck forwards to the offense, because they can’t be on offense until after the puck has crossed the center line.

      The defense was caught with their pants down, because the opposing team managed to get a player behind them, and then managed to pass the puck to them? That should be egg on the defense’s face, not a penalty for the offense.

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    • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      “How dare you catch us off-guard!!!”

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• 9point6@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I think this would probably be covered by unsporting behaviour or dangerous play.

  There might be some stuff that would consider the ball out of play in this scenario too as no specific player has possession, but that might be a stretch

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  • herrvogel@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    As far as I know it’s dangerous play, because you’d be making it impossible for anyone to challenge the ball without things getting dangerous. You’re supposed to defend the ball by using your athleticism to fend off your opponents, not by using medieval battlefield tactics to force a siege.

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    • hanke@feddit.nu ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      You’re supposed to defend the ball by using your athleticism to fend off your opponents, not by using medieval battlefield tactics to force a siege.

      Games evolve over time. Get with it or get behind.

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    • LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Surround the players with your own and starve them out.

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    • CanadianCarl@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The future is now, old man.

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• mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Reminds me of the old “change one rule about a sport to make it more entertaining” thing that was popular on AskReddit for a while.

  My personal rule change is that the cooler for the ice rink gets turned off ~20 minutes before a hockey game starts, and it turns into a heater instead. Anyone who has ever tried to skate on wet/melting ice knows that you just stick to it like it’s made of clay. All other rules stay the same. As the game progresses, the ice will melt more and more, until the players are basically playing water polo, with like six inches of water on the concrete subfloor.

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  • musubibreakfast@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I would like to add a rule, if the game goes long then all the hockey sticks are exchanged with samurai swords at the discretion of the referee and when the samurai swords are in play then the first team to reach the zamboni can commandeer it as a combat vehicle

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• eyesaremosaics@lemmy.zip ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It would lead to a whistle and restart the same way you can’t just sit on a ball to waste time. Not sure what the rule is called but yeah it’s covered in the rules

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  • jpablo68@infosec.pub ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah, there’s a rule against that, you can’t force the ball to stay with you (like holding it between your legs or in between two people)

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    • tetris11@feddit.uk ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      what if they stayed close but never touched, the ball vibrating between them

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• owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I had a similar idea for american football.

  1. Recruit an offensive line entirely of ex-sumo wrestlers
  2. One holds the ball
  3. The rest form a protective ring around them
  4. They casually walk down the field
  5. Anyone who attempts to tackle them is thrown unceremoniously aside like trash
  6. Touchdown!

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  • snooggums@piefed.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That is what the offensive line is now and they can’t grab anyone to throw them aside because that would be holding.

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  • tetris11@feddit.uk ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    american football

    I mean, surely the team with the gun wins.

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    • swab148@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Image

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    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      You’re thinking of Pro Thunderball

      www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpwbvFvn9W0

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  • socsa@piefed.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I think you would be pretty shocked to see sumo champions next to NFL linemen. They weigh about the same, but the NFL players are 3-4 inches taller on average.

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  • mrmacduggan@lemmy.ml ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This is literally the point of an offensive line already, you think those boys can’t sumo wrestle?

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    • Omgpwnies@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Not to mention many of them are easily as big as the sumo wrestlers.

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• varnia@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  You just reinvented Rugby. Wait till you develop that into American Football.

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  • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’ve invented the beer commercial just in time!

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• Bacano@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Enders Game (of soccer)

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  • Odo@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    “The enemy goal is down.”

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• Calfpupa@lemmy.ml ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Shaolin Soccer

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• notabot@piefed.social ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Thus is basically the same as the, now banned, flying wedge in rugby. The manouver aparently lead to twenty two fatalities, as well as inumerable injuries, in a single year.

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• protist@retrofed.com ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  New gay porn concept

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• Soulphite@reddthat.com ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Bold move, let’s see how it plays out for 'em, Cotton.

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• borQue@lemmy.zip ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Well if they keep the ball like that, they’d score together! That way the score would always be even! So we could also choose to leave the ball on the spot and just grab a nice pint in the pub.

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  • swab148@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah, in fact, what is this all for? waves around generally It’s all pointless, let’s just go to the pub

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