Water Polo is Boring
There's a good reason the summer Olympics only come round every four years . . . it takes that long to forget how tedious a water polo match is (and yes, I understand that they are tremendously fit and yes I understand that it takes great skill to do anything while treading water, but it's a horrible game-- they swim down the pool with the ball, toss it around the perimeter a bit to show that they can, and then someone whips it at the goal . . . rinse, lather, repeat ad nauseam . . . I humbly suggest adding jet-skis and hungry sharks to the mix).
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As a fellow nominal Hungarian, you should not besmirch water polo, the only sport our homeland dominates. Unless there's some math-and-physics Olympics that doesn't get much press.
i did just see hungary dominating the US and wondered what was up.
We did win the hammer throw which is a bad ass event to win.
Hungarians naturally tread water better than everyone else -- oil and water dont mix.
The reason water polo is so boring ia because the rules of fina (the ruling commitee for the sport) have been put in a strangle hold by countries that believe that the sport should be a grab ass game where you can be lazy and foul to make up for your lazy techniques.If you want to make the game exciting and reward abilities, change the stupid fouling rules.What if you had the same fouling rules as basketball, 5 fouls and on the 6th foul your out. When a defender is close to fouling out you would see some really cool moves that would get the fans into the game and add some drama back into the sport.Heck you will actually see the hole man become a superstar! But for now we are stuck with a game that is lost in the 1920s!!!! BORRRIMG!!!!
The reason water polo is so boring ia because the rules of fina (the ruling commitee for the sport) have been put in a strangle hold by countries that believe that the sport should be a grab ass game where you can be lazy and foul to make up for your lazy techniques.If you want to make the game exciting and reward abilities, change the stupid fouling rules.What if you had the same fouling rules as basketball, 5 fouls and on the 6th foul your out. When a defender is close to fouling out you would see some really cool moves that would get the fans into the game and add some drama back into the sport.Heck you will actually see the hole man become a superstar! But for now we are stuck with a game that is lost in the 1920s!!!! BORRRIMG!!!!
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