5 of the Funniest Rules or Traditions in Sports

If you even remotely call yourself a sports fan I am sure this has happened to you. You are sitting there watching your favorite team with some friends and all of the sudden your team gets called for a foul, a penalty, or some wierd rule that makes you go, "Huh, what was that"? I know I have and its time to share the top 5 dumbest rules in professional and collegiate sports.

#5 Soccer Actors: Now I am not a huge soccer fan, but when it comes around to the World Cup I get into it even though the U.S. disappoints all but on one occasion. The funniest and oddest rule I always see is that player dribbling the ball down the field someone pulls at his shorts and he does 3 somersaults, hands waving in the air, and a face that looks like someone just ran him over. Then as he lies there talking to the umpire or referee a stretcher is brought out to take him off the field. Now to me, if you are getting taken off the field on a stretcher your next stop is the hospital. However, 5 minutes later you see that same person return to the game like he was in gym class and simply got a bruise. What gives with this rule?

#4 NFL Overtime Rule: When oh when are they ever going to change the rule about the first team that scores wins. This has got to be one of the most boring overtimes I have ever watched in any sport. So if you don't know this rule (by chance) or never seen an NFL overtime game basically what happens is they flip a coin to see who gets the ball first (because I've only seen on two occasions where the winner has deferred) and then they drive down the field and score, game over. I believe last season they said the whoever won the coin toss since overtime was initiated into the sport 76% of the teams who had the ball first won on the opening drive of overtime. So pretty much your saying we can all watch the coin toss and go home! Thanks for that.

#3 Baseball Commentators/Analysts on Cy Young Award: Not taking anything away from Cy Young because he was the men of all men when it came to pitching and his 511 victories and the award should definitely be is to begin with but I only have one question. Year after year we see the top 10 greatest pitchers of all-time and year after year its pretty much the same results where Cy Young is #2 and Walter Johnson is #1. How can this be? Major League Baseball presents an award for the best pitcher in each league every year and its called the Cy Young Award, not the Walter Johnson Award. Furthermore, whats the point of making a top 10 list every year? I mean I understand it creates debate, but how do inactive players move up and down the list either ahead or below other inactive players? Is there some sort of extra credit formula after you retire or something? Either call the award the Walter Johnson Award, or make Cy Young the #1 Pitcher of All Time and leave it at that!

#2 NCAA Basketball's Play-in Game: I really want to smack the committee upside the head for making this an every year event now. Everyone complained for so many years about that 1 team that should have been in the tournament and missed out because it only fields 64 teams. So what do they do they make a play in game of pretty much the 2 worst teams in the tournament field, and the winner of that gets to play a powerhouse and lose by like 30-50 points. So basically all we do is feed the sport more money by driving up to Dayton, Ohio to know that whoever wins is going to lose because a 16 seed has never beaten a 1 seed in the history of the tournament. Get real!

#1 The NCAA BCS Ranking System: I am not even going to explain the formula they come up with that "SUPPOSEDLY" pits the 2 best teams together for the National Title Game. Its almost like we are all beating a dead horse here which actually almost made me not even put it up on the list at all. Why oh why is it so hard to make a playoff system. Don't give us all that hoopla about kids school schedules and everything else when we know you can work around them or through them. Yes it creates debate, but we don't want to debate we want winners! Another thing, we don't want 52 day layoffs between the last game of the season and the National Championship game. Don't get me wrong I am a Florida Gators fan and loved that they got to show those Nutz, uhm I mean Buckeyes whose boss routing them and all, but we need a playoff, and we need one bad, so get your head out of your.........oh nevermind, better not say that, ooops.