I've written a little about how American football has lost me as a fan. I've regressed to a deeply casual fan, really only interested in the team supported by all my relatives (the Pittsburgh Steelers) and certain personalities (I think Peyton Manning seems like a nice guy, and I don't like Bill Belichick). The flippant attitude toward player safety (of the league, team owners, team staff, players themselves, and fans) is what lost me. (That and the arrest season, I mean, off-season.) I don't watch boxing, I don't watch MMA, and now I hardly watch football.
My children and I have become big soccer fans. Which has led to me hearing the common American complaint about soccer: "It's so boring."
This complaint frustrates me, especially when it is said during one of the scoring-play commercial chains (you know, how it goes touchdown, commercial break, extra point, commercial break, kick off, commercial break). On the clock, soccer games are 90 minutes. Football games are 60 minutes. But watching a soccer game takes just under two hours, which is less than half the time of a prime-time NFL broadcast, like a Sunday night or playoff game.
Not only does football take a 60-minute game and spread it out over four hours, it doesn't even feature action for the entire 60 minutes. In fact, the average features about 11 minutes of actual "guys are playing football right now" action.
Soccer scores are lower, both in terms of total points and in terms of scoring events. But football fans recognize that a non-scoring play can be a great play. Both David Tyree's Super Bowl XLII catch and Mario Manningham's Super Bowl XLVI catch were non-scoring plays. Football fans decide to criticize the lack of scoring events in soccer because it's a metric on which they know soccer fares poorly. To generalize that to "boring" or "lacking action" is nonsense.
via oneofthebest
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