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Originally Posted by molson
I don't think the low scores are biggest problem with soccer. The games are much shorter - a 2-1 soccer game is roughly equivalent to a 28-14 football game.
In popular American sports though, things that effect the game's outcome happen throughout the game. That's what we like. A scoreless half-inning of baseball clearly advances the game, putting a zero up on the scoreboard. A touchdown may take a half hour or more of real time to develop, and it may be a direct consequence of a big defensive play/turnover/kickoff return that happened just prior to that. Everything feels connected.
In soccer, you can have huge periods of time that go by, where nothing happens that actually advances the game.
To a non-soccer fan, a game kind of looks like this:
nothing happening...nothing happening...nothing happening..SCORE OFF A DEFLECTION THAT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH WHAT HAPPENED EARLIER....nothing happening....nothing happening....
We like more structure rather than free-flowing play (innings, downs, yards to to go, or failing that, a changing socreboard every few seconds, as in basketball)
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By your logic: How do 3-and-out series in football advance the game?
The eventual touchdowns that are scored have nothing to do with that series.