Americans love to complain about the stupid rules in soccer- offsides, red cards vs yellow, overtime rules, etc.

But in watching the World Cup, there is 1 thing soccer very clearly gets right- scaled punishments for fouls.

A foul in the middle of the field (where the scoring threat is minimal)? That’s not a big deal, free kick from that spot. A foul in the box (when a team might be about to score)? Penalty kick.

Compare that to the nfl- a defensive holding penalty on 1st down has the same punishment as a defensive holding penalty on 4th and 30, which often feels like it bails out the offense.

In hockey, a tripping penalty in the defensive zone is the same punishment as in the offensive zone, when 1 of those two are far more likely to be in an attempt to prevent goals.

The scaled punishments definitely are easier to swallow, because you are punished to an equal amount of how much it would actually change the game

I remember when this dropped and even Will Smith himself was like "huh?"

One is apparently massively popular but I don’t know a single person who is invested or cares about the show. The other is more niche but far more quotable and impactful.

There was a thread here a few days ago about takes Bill had that aged well. Seeing the purge at ESPN combined with the recent onslaught of all things Kelce Brothers, McAfee, Brady had me thinking of a comment he made years ago regarding Pro athletes. The vast majority of them are dull and uninteresting for the most part that whenever one comes along that has a hint of a personality, the media treats them like they are the next Eddie Murphy. Basically it become "the tallest dwarf" corollary (Charles Barkley being the biggest exception).

Leslie Mann, Jonah Hill, Kevin Hart, and a bunch of other one-scene performances that crush.

Related, I don’t know how Romany Malco didn’t have a bigger career. He’s awesome in this.

Tom Brady and Timothee Chalamet come to mind.

Even before recent cringe incidents I became sick of Brady. I have never clicked a single Tom Brady video in my entire life except one Veritasium video where he was featured, but I can't help but see him *all the time* on my YouTube recommendations. I have no idea why YouTube does this.

I can't help but see Timothée Chalamet latching on to all of sports-related stuff and saying dumb shit to increase his profile.

What is that? Some sort of movie about Bill deciding the analytics were right about Jaylen??

The “PG for Jaylen Brown was a punchline 6 years ago” piece

Look, I was confused as hell the first time and I’m scared to commit 3 hours per movie to something I probably won’t understand

Michael Jordan would never. Joe Montana would never.

It’s a bad look and I can’t get over it.

Am I missing something or was that a terrible suggestion by CR? I get that Damon goes John Wick-mode near the end but I'm just not seeing it.

If it wasn't Damon, I'd take Leo, Bale, maybe Hardy, maybe even a Clive Owen-aissance

Good god. As a Sean Fennessey truther this is a steaming pile of shit. Sean is one of the best minds in movie criticism today but he should be banned from talking about Christopher Nolan, he can’t be objective about him.

Here is the list

1. Dunkirk
   
2. Oppenheimer
   
3. The Odyssey
   
4. The Dark Knight
   
5. Inception
   
6. Tenet (bruh)
   
7. Interstellar
   
8. Memento
   
9. The Prestige
   
10. The Dark Knight Rises
    
11. Batman Begins
    
12. Insomnia
    
13. Following

I feel like we keep forgetting this. their coach literally was gambling on games.

maybe the entire organization actually DID need to be cleansed with fire and everyone who got a paycheck from the organization last year just needs to be replaced.

i stand with el cheapo.

in a half serious note, he’s a psyop from the rest of the league who can’t fucking wait to do all the bullshit he’s doing.