Scoring has always equaled entertainment for the lowest common denominator casual sports fan. To casual fans, really good defense looks like someone being mugged in NBA and NFL.
My biggest beef with the NFL has always been that the players can’t or won’t self police each other, thus raging hulk poses and fruity gyrations after meaningless plays in blow outs. They had to come up with lame rules for players acting like a jerk ‘excessively’. How lame is a sport when the players don’t care that someone performed a chest slapping display after simply falling on a loose ball?
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You can thank the Jimmy Johnson during his coaching stint at University of Miami for this boorish behavior. He never controlled his players, and it crept into the pros.