Professional Futsal League (PFL) Debut Weekend

I watched the debut PFL games in DFW this weekend and, while the play was as exciting as futsal usually is, the commentary was … actually … disappointing.

First the announcers Dan Robertson and Miguel Mariel felt it necessary to explain the rules of futsal because, I'm guessing here, it was ssumed the audience was ignorant of the rules of the game of futsal and, it was assumed, Dan and Miguel would explain the rules to the ignorant listeners. With this assumption, it would have been good if Miguel and Dan reviewed the rules themselves and were able to speak intelligently about the rules of futsal. But they didn't. They spoke poorly. And the sad thing was, all the newcomers to futsal were sponges to their mis-education. My advice to Dan and Miguel is to prepare to speak intelligently by reading the laws of the game, at least once, and trying to learn the correct terms and phrases that define the game in order to speak like an expert that most listeners think you are.

Next time Manuel Mariel plans to color comment on a futsal game, he should review the futsal laws of the game in order to use the correct terminology. IT IS NOT CALLED THE 6^TH PENALTY MARK! It's called the 2^nd Penalty Mark, which is used upon the 6^th accumulated foul and beyond. And there were other explanations that were just plain weak, probably because he didn't understand the rules himself very well. WHEN IN A POSITION OF AUTHORITY, PLEASE KNOW WHAT THE HELL YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT! It's not enough to have just played the game. You need to also know the rules of the games. Duuhh!!!