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Hardly boring at all. MUCH better than American football where it takes 4 hrs. to play a 60 minute game. Or baseball where all they do is pick at their groins and spit tobacco juice everywhere.

Soccer is boring, dreadfully boring. Fans of it talk about how there is continuous action, but they are wrong. There is continuous movement, not necessarily action.

Football is stop and go, which can be frustrating, but that is because each down is a mini-conflict within the larger conflict of the game itself. While individual plays can do very little, they are a step in the process toward some goal, and there is the potential during each play for a breakout moment that doesn't necessarily need to be a score: a big gain, a big penalty, a big stop, a fumble, an interception, a sack, etc. If there isn't a score, then a big play can set up a score.

With soccer, if there is a rush to the net and no goal, then oh well, back to kicking the ball in a circle somewhere in the midfield...

Baseball is slow, but not boring. It is built on anticipation. Instead of having to watch a bunch of ants milling about until something happens, you again get to watch a mini-conflict between pitcher and hitter, and there are definite and potentially game-changing outcomes each time.

But of course, it's all a matter of taste, so we all should just lighten up a bit.

probably we should lighten up, but you’re dead wrong about soccer being boring and not having continuous action. Have you noticed the ball is in play the entire 90 minutes? Not so in American Football or baseball. Basketball much more so....I’ll give credit there.

With soccer, if there is a rush to the net and no goal, then oh well, back to kicking the ball in a circle somewhere in the midfield...

Baseball is slow, but not boring. It is built on anticipation. Instead of having to watch a bunch of ants milling about until something happens, you again get to watch a mini-conflict between pitcher and hitter, and there are definite and potentially game-changing outcomes each time.

That's an odd juxtaposition. Soccer is all about anticipation. With regard to passing the ball around, think of chess or fencing: you are not going to beat a well-positioned defense, so you maneuver to create a momentary lapse, then strike. This, by the way, is going to be the death of the current U.S. team, which cannot hold the ball in midfield against quality opponents.

I grant that baseball is all about anticipation as well. I like it too. I'm coming to think that football and basketball are for instant gratification crackheads.

American football and basketball have been harmed by excessive breaks for TV commercials and various other timeouts. (I could hardly stand to watch the NCAA basketball tournament, where it took about 25-30 minutes to play the last seven minutes of some of the games.) So soccer has the advantage of being RELATIVELY continuous.

But much of that continuity consists of relatively boring midfield passing, balls kicked back to one's own goalkeeper, and - of course - all of the flopping, which even disgusts most soccer fans. The amount of high-excitement play in soccer can usually be boiled down to about two or three minutes of actual playing time. In American football, however, any play can result in a game-changing touchdown or turnover or sack or big gain, so I think the moment-by-moment excitement in American football is greater than in soccer.