Most American stadium sports games, except baseball, you go to have someone getting “hurt” inside of the stadium. Sometimes it’s real; there’s no denying people actually do get hurt in the stadium, but other times people tend to exaggerate their injuries on the field for the sake of giving their opponents yellow or even red cards for unsportsmanlike conduct.
It’s practically a guarantee that these football, soccer, and basketball games on every level from the college leagues to the international World Cup will have someone getting injured either for real or to give someone else a penalty. These “injuries” stop the flow of the game and often get jeers from the audience, but the win is all that matters since it affects their track records.
There are punishments in place for these sports such as yellow and red cards, yard penalties, technical fouls, and even player ejections. None of it gets taken too seriously; however, it’s rare for a player to get ejected due to their bad behavior, so people try to get away with minor transgressions to help their team. One or two “injuries” aren’t anything, but they apply that rule to every player and not the teams, so players try and fake injuries over and over again in an attempt to penalize their opponents and give their team an advantage.
Since players can get really injured, however, nobody checks if these player injuries get faked, and if they do, it’s not nearly enough. People should get punished for faking these injuries; it ruins the flow of the game, and it’s an attempt to cheat by giving themselves an advantage from an opponent’s penalty. These rules should be enforced quicker so that players don’t try it every couple of minutes for an hour-and-a-half game. They make millions of dollars per contract; the worst these punishments can get are fines, but fines don’t affect the rich. Player ejections are also rare and better for punishments and staining a track record; at least I think ejections should be treated as a bigger stain than most care to consider them as. If a player gets caught faking an injury, an ejection should deter others from also trying to fake an injury. Obviously real injuries happen in the stadium, but there should be more people checking to verify if it’s a real injury or a fake.
