Those comments seem to lean more off a lack of understanding or playing. Football used to be very low scoring. But I do understand not every sport is for everyone. I think baseball is incredibly boring. Love college basketball hate nba now with run and chunk play and that has even more acting in it than soccer. But I also respect the sports and understand it takes skill and strategy still. Just don’t like the American hate on it instead of just saying it’s not for them.
I take the “to each his own” approach, but l think basketball is stupid and beyond boring myself. A friend of mine who was a huge basketball fan (Seattle Supersonics - you can figure it out from there) got back into it this year because he REALLY wanted the Knicks to win it all, nostalgia thing (between him being old enough to recall 1973 and the OJ chase in 1994). He wanted me to tune it in, and I did.
For about five minutes. I'm old enough to remember complaints about the "three step travel" of Dr J. Well, I watched some five and six-step travels and said, "I ain't missing nothing."
I myself have said over and over that soccer WILL NEVER catch on in the USA as a national sport. In most other countries where it is the equivalent of our NFL, they don't have many other sports to follow, if any. We already get more excitement here from football, hockey, and yes, even basketball. Personally, I like baseball, but I've been disappointed in how corporate the whole thing has become with the pitchers in particular. (A pitcher is now such an investment that it's not that they CAN'T go 8 innings, it's the team won't let them).
Having said that, however, I'm reminded of a conversation I had with a guy in 1990, when one of the most boring World Cups in history concluded. He mocked soccer, saying, "How preposterous to play 120 minutes and then basically line up and whoever hits penalty shots wins the game!" I happened to know this guy was a huge college football fan, so I got him: "So you think it's better to play three months of games, bowl games where the best teams never meet and then let a bunch of sportswriters and coaches VOTE on who wins the championship? I'll admit the shootout isn't ideal, but at least they settle it on the field."
As I said....1990, so those of you who remember how that CFB season ended are smiling right now.
Before I was Alabama, I lived in England and lived (and died) with Ipswich Town F.C. Still do, especially now that my Saturday mornings are free since they forever screwed up college football.
