Excuse me, but I believe the entire point of spectator sports is to be entertaining. You can claim by some twisted definition that leagues that don't kick out bad teams don’t play a real sport. But what you will never be able to claim with a strait face is that soccer is entertainment. It’s just not, unless watching hooligans brawl is your idea of entertainment.
For some reason large masses of Europeans, Asians, and Latins like to sing in unison for ninety some minutes while absolutely nothing happens in front of them. The fact that the entire rest of the world loves this ridiculously slow and eventless game, and we don’t, is proof positive that we’ve got something on them. It’s part of the reason people wish to leave their homeland and come here.
I’ve given this sport a chance. It’s regularity on a Fox channel I get. I sometimes leave it on when I’m doing other things to see if something happens. Once I recall a game, between Germany and Italy, I believe in the World Cup. One or the other team actually scored a late goal to win the game. A rare event like that probably happens once a year or so worldwide.
I saw some English league game the other day where the play-by-play guy mentioned that one of the teams had tied something like 17 out of 21 games this season, most of them scoreless ties. And American football isn’t a sport?
As is born out by it's world dominance as a spectator sport...There were about 10,000 professional Soccer matches this weekend, as there are every weekend - can't say I've heard of any hooliganism anywhere...And guess what. they average over 3 goals per game. if you want a sport where nothing happens you can't beat American Football...THREE Hours to play out a ONE hour clock (can you do the math?) -and of that one hour clock there is actual play action for an accumulation of 12-15 minutes!
So for two hours and 45 minutes of the three hours absolutely NOTHING is happening unless you like TV advertising or watching a clock run down..
Can there be a more damning indictment of the boredom factor of a sport than the fact that most people watch the Superbowl because of the TV ADS!