[1rudeboy]

I will grant you there are breaks in the action. Injury, ball going out-of-bounds, etc. But the action, if not "continuous," is so much more continuous that anyone failing to see it is blind. Next time you don't know where to begin confronting the observation, ask yourself, how many Cialis commercials did I see while watching the Ravens vs. the Steelers?

[Goldsborough]

I will grant you there are breaks in the action. Injury, ball going out-of-bounds, etc. But the action, if not "continuous," is so much more continuous that anyone failing to see it is blind. Next time you don't know where to begin confronting the observation, ask yourself, how many Cialis commercials did I see while watching the Ravens vs. the Steelers?

Lol. Players passing to one another maintaining "possession" is "action" the same way Dean Smith's four corners offense in college basketball was "action." It was and is sleep inducing to watch teams in any sport play keep away with itself. I am also certainly not blind to soccer's almost unrelieved litany of passing and shooting failures that its fans call "action."

Another key indicator of how boring soccer is is apparent in what are considered highlights. Never in the history of televised sport has so much hi-def super slow motion camera work been devoted to things that DIDN'T HAPPEN! Show a goal or a save from sixty angles, great. Repeatedly showing a free kick that missed everything by twelve feet? Showing the theatrics of a non-contact dive? Slow mo facial reactions of the coach? Ridiculous.

You need a last anecdote? I forgot that USA-Germany was an 8:30Am start here in the Pacific time zone. Tuned in at minute 44 on the work tv, and guess what? I had missed exactly nothing. I can't think of any other sport where that is more likely to happen than not.

I think I'd rather endure some ED commercials than regularly subject myself to "soccer action."