Being extremely transparent here, you need to know that I can't figure out what offsides means. I mean, I totally drew the picture up there, and I pretty much drew it on my own. I had a little help from a diagram online, but overall I get that. But, what I don't understand is how referees can see things like "offsides". Maybe it's my contacts, but my eyes don't move quickly enough to see those things.
After a little research on the highly reliable "wikipedia" I found that the offsides rule has been around since 1847 and was actually called "sneaking". Wait, I'm not that old, how come we didn't have soccer when I was growing up? I demand a do-over! Over time, the sneaking rule became called offsides and in 1925, it was amended to something about 2 attackers, but I didn't understand that part, and then in 1990 it was changed back to one player, blah, blah, blah. If you really want to know look it up. The point is, I don't get it!
HOWEVER, I do understand this. The rule is made because otherwise the defensive player could just wait around by the goalie until the ball came there. It kind of sounds like the rule was made for kids like Reed who doesn't like to run constantly and would like for the ball just to come to him while others do the work.
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