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Originally Posted by bababui
Why not keep playing till someone scores a goal in football..with an additional sub every 30 extra minutes?
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Because draws help to separate the teams in the league. If you had just wins and losses you would need loads of tiebreakers.
Also people want to get home from games at a sensible hour. And unlike baseball fans, football fans want to actually see the end of the game (and indeed because of segregation of fans, the away fans wouldn't be allowed to leave early anyway).