Todd Boehly. A man...who wants an all-star game.

[DualityNSNO]

Just imagine for one second believing that was his first thought.

He's obviously a football soccer purist.

 

[TheBigIguana]

It wouldn’t, it’d be crap and the players would all absolutely hate it.

The players in every other sport and in MLS absolutely love it

 

[MikeH72]

The players in every other sport and in MLS absolutely love it

Good for them. Made up for them.

 

[TheBigIguana]

I think it’s just better to keep Americans away from any strategy or decision making in English football. It’s their commercialisation and bastardisation model that’s helped yank a sordid gap between fans and their clubs. American business people have little appreciation for history and tradition, generally happy to forgo any fan sentiment to just grind out an extra dollar. They merely see fans as customers and expendable.

I can empathise really as they don’t get what European sports are about as they run a franchise model where the club doesn’t belong to the fans and community but instead to the richest person that can afford it.

Boehly should keep his cake hole shut about the English game and just ruin the club he bought out of sheer ego and opportunism.

This is how the English clubs work too?

 

[TheBigIguana]

Good for them. Made up for them.

Ok but you can't say the players would hate it when they wouldn't then

 

[Martin Alvito]

He was absurd as a sportsman during those times... I mean still is in a league of his own (current players; Jordan and him if we look back), but jesus those days he was just unstoppable. Even in Miami, just brute forcing when he feels like it.

I honestly haven't watched all that much pro basketball since the '80s. Never thought Jordan was as good as Magic, though he certainly had more of an impact on how other teams played against him, and for me the set of stars in the '80s trumped whatever collection from subsequent eras you care to name. The Dream Team was exactly that - a sizable fraction of the players that made basketball in the '80s so good.

As @TheBigIguana points out, I suspect that a footy all-star game would look much like the NBA one. It would probably be high-scoring, because very few players will stick in tackles or contest aerial balls the same way the NBA players don't much play defense in the all-star game. Suggesting 'North-South' seems a little silly; the NBA ditched East-West in favor of a player draft for a reason.

The players in every other sport and in MLS absolutely love it

Pro Bowl says 'hi'. I don't think NHL players are that enthused about the actual game, either. The baseball players now care because home field in the Series rides on it, and the NBA cleverly got the players to care by naming captains that select the teams. Players want to stick it to the guy that didn't pick them, or defend their position in the pecking order.

 

[MikeH72]

Ok but you can't say the players would hate it when they wouldn't then

I can say with some confidence that Mo Salah would hate to be made to fly half way across the world to have a kick about with Joao Cancelo in front of 90,000 adult children.

 

[TheBigIguana]

I honestly haven't watched all that much pro basketball since the '80s. Never thought Jordan was as good as Magic, though he certainly had more of an impact on how other teams played against him, and for me the set of stars in the '80s trumped whatever collection from subsequent eras you care to name. The Dream Team was exactly that - a sizable fraction of the players that made basketball in the '80s so good.

As @TheBigIguana points out, I suspect that a footy all-star game would look much like the NBA one. It would probably be high-scoring, because very few players will stick in tackles or contest aerial balls the same way the NBA players don't much play defense in the all-star game. Suggesting 'North-South' seems a little silly; the NBA ditched East-West in favor of a player draft for a reason.


Pro Bowl says 'hi'. I don't think NHL players are that enthused about the actual game, either. The baseball players now care because home field in the Series rides on it, and the NBA cleverly got the players to care by naming captains that select the teams. Players want to stick it to the guy that didn't pick them, or defend their position in the pecking order.

The players do like the pro bowl when they go and have a blast. It's just tough because of how beat up they get over the course of a season.

 

[TheBigIguana]

I can say with some confidence that Mo Salah would hate to be made to fly half way across the world to have a kick about with Joao Cancelo in front of 90,000 adult children.

He does that multiple times a year when he plays for Egypt.

I'm sorry Egypt didn't deserve that.

 

[MikeH72]

He does that multiple times a year when he plays for Egypt

What on earth are you talking about?? He is playing in competitive games for his country, not a friendly in front of loads of absolute biffs who support 8 different clubs and want to watch Katy Perry screech at them at half time.

 

[Martin Alvito]

What on earth are you talking about?? He is playing in competitive games for his country, not a friendly in front of loads of absolute biffs who support 8 different clubs and want to watch Katy Perry screech at them at half time.

I really wish leagues would stop doing that. If I went to watch a NASCAR race, I didn't go to see the musical act afterwards, and Lord knows putting Aerosmith and NSYNC on stage together has to be in the top ten list of the worst ideas ever conceived of by humanity. If I were an alien, I would totally wipe humanity off the globe for that particular offense.

 

[TheBigIguana]

I really wish leagues would stop doing that. If I went to watch a NASCAR race, I didn't go to see the musical act afterwards, and Lord knows putting Aerosmith and NSYNC on stage together has to be in the top ten list of the worst ideas ever conceived of by humanity.

I imagine the reason it is becoming popular is because a lot of these acts aren't seeing bigger crowds than the pregame/halftime/post-game of a well attended game. Seriously I saw Smashmouth after a baseball game this summer. It's crazy.

Aerosmith maybe even if it was Daytona or something

 

[wm02]

I honestly haven't watched all that much pro basketball since the '80s. Never thought Jordan was as good as Magic, though he certainly had more of an impact on how other teams played against him, and for me the set of stars in the '80s trumped whatever collection from subsequent eras you care to name. The Dream Team was exactly that - a sizable fraction of the players that made basketball in the '80s so good.

As @TheBigIguana points out, I suspect that a footy all-star game would look much like the NBA one. It would probably be high-scoring, because very few players will stick in tackles or contest aerial balls the same way the NBA players don't much play defense in the all-star game. Suggesting 'North-South' seems a little silly; the NBA ditched East-West in favor of a player draft for a reason.


Pro Bowl says 'hi'. I don't think NHL players are that enthused about the actual game, either. The baseball players now care because home field in the Series rides on it, and the NBA cleverly got the players to care by naming captains that select the teams. Players want to stick it to the guy that didn't pick them, or defend their position in the pecking order.

I think some type of skills competition could be interesting, but not an All-Star game.
Generally, the skills competitions in baseball, hockey, and basketball are better than the All-Star Games for those sports. I believe the Home Run Derby for baseball historically gets better ratings than any of the All-Star games

 

[Martin Alvito]

I imagine the reason it is becoming popular is because a lot of these acts aren't seeing bigger crowds than the pregame/halftime/post-game of a well attended game. Seriously I saw Smashmouth after a baseball game this summer. It's crazy.

Aerosmith maybe even if it was Daytona or something

Aerosmith is fine. Aerosmith and NSYNC together is not fine, and not just because it's NSYNC. Aerosmith and the Beatles together is an insult to the Beatles, and Aerosmith with any other boy band in history is an incredibly bad idea.

Bands together can work. I saw Chicago and REO one time together, and they played three of each band's biggest hits together during the encore. It was fantastic, and only marred by the absence of Cetera and Kath.

I think some type of skills competition could be interesting, but not an All-Star game.
Generally, the skills competitions in baseball, hockey, and basketball are better than the All-Star Games for those sports. I believe the Home Run Derby for baseball historically gets better ratings than any of the All-Star games

I saw Schweinsteiger warm up one time when he was washed up in Chicago, and it was beyond absurd. It showed just how vast the skills gap between MLS and top level footy really was. It looked like what I imagine playing Haaland next to a bunch of U-19s would have looked like, except that Schweinsteiger almost certainly has more skills.

A well-designed skills competition could have some serious legs. It would be good for the players as well, as there are plenty of examples in the NBA of players that managed to play a dunk contest win into a sizable contract beyond their earning power otherwise.

 

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