You've obviously heard of them, but if you've not seen them by now, you haven't lived.
Between 1996 and 1998, MLS used breakaway-style shootouts to break ties in regular-season matches, in which players ran in on goal from 35 yards out and had five seconds to score on the opposition 'keeper.
Think World Cup with your mates, but you're on your own, and you've got a time limit to score.
It was glorious, and it looked a little something like this.
Not used since the late '90s, MLS-style shootouts have since retreated into the annals of football folklore, with the above clip again doing the rounds back in October, wowing an unknowing young generation of fans.
And it may well be reintroduced in the coming years, at least if FIFA Technical Director Marco van Basten has anything to do with it.
The former Netherlands manager introduced a number of revolutionary proposals to reporters yesterday, including MLS-style shootouts. These he wants to see at the end of 90 minutes, doing away with extra time altogether.
He told Rob Harris of the Associated Press:
Maybe the player should start 25 meters from goal and then you can dribble the goalkeeper or shoot early. But you have to make a goal within eight seconds. It's more skill and less luck. It's maybe a bit more spectacular. It's more football but it's still nervous for the player.
For the record, we are 100% on board with this idea, but less so the notion that football should scrap offside altogether. This, Van Basten believes, would make football more visually appealing, as it is "looking a lot like handball with nine or ten defenders in front of the goal." Of course, were there no offsides, those defenders would in reality be camped on their own goal line.
Another interesting proposal from the Dutch footballing icon, however, was the introduction of the 'sin bin' for those in-betweeny-type challenges which warrant slightly more than a yellow card but aren't quite worthy of a straight red.
Van Basten would call it the orange card, fittingly, and also suggested it could be applied if a player picked up five fouls in a game.
Maybe an orange card could be shown that sees a player go out of the game for 10 minutes for incidents that are not heavy enough for a red card.
Van Basten also mooted the possibility of four quarters instead of two halves, and limiting each player in world football to 60 games in a season.
Sure, some of the ideas are somewhat off-beat, but the Ajax and AC Milan legend is extremely close to FIFA president Gianni Infantino.
However, he did state that he wishes to 'listen to the world of football' before he officially submits his proposal, which as things stand is a 10-point plan. Any prospective rule changes would need to be taken to the sport's law-making body, The International Football Association Board. FIFA controls half of the eight votes on IFAB, with the other four retained by the FA, the Welsh FA, the Scottish FA and the IFA.
Marco, if you are listening, forget the rest, and just give us those Major League shootouts!
[Rob Harris, Press Association]
