Have you seen the crowd at a soccer game celebrating a goal? It is so much more intense than any scoring in American sports.
No offside rule and a goal every two minutes, now that would be boring.
Have you seen the crowd at a soccer game celebrating a goal? It is so much more intense than any scoring in American sports.
No offside rule and a goal every two minutes, now that would be boring.
One of the most exciting sports games I've ever seen.
Both team close to scoring for 90 min + 30min extra times.
Then, a big orgasm at 7:40.
The equation more scoring = more excitement is a bit like the kid that discovers masturbation. He goes nuts with it and does it multiple times a day, and he loves it. Release, release, release.
Then he will eventually grow up and he will get less and less interested in that.
Now his new discovery is quality, not quantity, and his very best ones are the ones that follow a slow, long build up of sexual tension (and of course a woman).
That's soccer.
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You're not getting many responses because there are not too many things as boring as a soccer game.
Soccer could be tolerable if they would eliminate that ridiculous off-sides rule. It basically says that you cannot have a fast break. Could you imagine basketball without a fast break?
If they eliminate the off-sides rule, then you might get scores like 25-20 instead of "1-nil". Then it might not be so bad, certainly tolerable.
Attention span of a goldfish. Have to see a scoring event every 10 seconds or it's "boring".
soccer can't EXIST without off side rule.
and no, it doesn't mean you can't have fast breaks.
I will tell you the real problem with soccer, isn't that it's boring, it's that it's like NCAA football.
What I mean is, all the big leagues (6 of them, just like the 6 BCS conferences) stoke their top two teams and the rest of their teams are second-rate at best. They do this so their top teams can win international matches, which gets their league more highly rated. It shouldn't, but it does.
For example, the Germans vs Spanish series going on right now is a joke. Yes, the 4 teams involved are the best teams in the world. But any other team in either the German or Spanish league would be destroyed. The Bundesliga in particular has no depth at all.
Then of course the English league is all Manchester this, Manchester that. If you're not from Manchester, it must really suck to be a fan of that league. At least they also have Arsenal.
The other day I watched Man City dismantle poor middle-of-the-pack West Ham, casually dribbling circles around their defenders. It was horrible to watch, a ghastly spectacle like a bear devouring a litter of helpless kittens. The outcome was never in doubt. It was not fair for Man City to have so many good players on one team. It was not even fair for their players to be in the same league.
They should put the Manchesters in a separate league with Bayern, Dortmund, Madrid and Barca and not allow them to play anyone else. Or FIFA should force individual leagues to crack down on dynasty teams.