No, with soccer the action is primarily non-existent.
People tend to move around non-stop on a city street too. That doesn't mean that activity will produce anything worth seeing.
Other than a scoring chance during NHL playoff overtime, there are no more gut wrenching, tense, what-sports-is-all about moments than the 30-60 seconds before the play that determines if your Super Bowl hopes live or die. If it turns to be 3 to 4 minutes and a few beer commercials, it's all the more glorious when the action resumes.
The pause lets the drama build (and, unlike soccer, allows the sport to be commercially viable) to a furious climax when the ball is snapped.
With soccer, the lack of any pause prevents the tension from building. Because of this, it's even more boring when nothing happens than it would be if all the non-events on the field were occasionally interrupted so you could run to the fridge. One suspects that even hard core soccer fans go to the bathroom or fridge with complete confidence that they can take their time and not miss anything even remotely consequential to the outcome of the game.