and THAT is boring.
I like good defense too, but I don't like having an offense so inept that it looks like a damned soccer match.
And if you didn't really notice, the Rose Bowl TURNED on defensive plays all night long.
All depends on what you like. To me that was real football. Those weren't inept offenses, they were just up against the best two defenses in the league. Against other defenses both those offenses had done well.
No 79 point combined score game turns on defensive plays. The occassional rare stop might have seemed important, but that was only because there were so few they ones that did happened seemed important. But they weren't, there were too many offensive points on the board for defense to have ever actually been important.