Wrong. Football was invented when American college boys, playing rugby, got tired of getting kicked in the face while down and losing their teeth. They ruled that play stopped when a player was down, which is sensible and which proves we're more civilized than the British. Then, to eliminate constant scrums, they instituted the down and distance system, and the rest is history. From that point, the forward pass has been the only other revolutionary departure.
Soccer is boring, but so are golf, baseball, auto racing, equestrian sports, and NBA regular season games. So I won't hold boring against it; some people seem to like tedium, and I don't have to watch.
When I put on my sports-purist hat, however, what does bother me about soccer is too many games (not to mention tournament games and championships) being decided by penalty kicks and/or those shootoffs (or whatever they're called) to break ties. It is as if basketball games routinely ended up tied and we settled on a freethrow shooting contest to decide the matter. A little more scoring would solve the problem.
I say this as a fan of defense. I loathe the designated hitter, the shot clock, the three point shot, etc. But soccer is overbalanced the other way. Probably all they would have to do is expand the goal a foot or two to turn boring 1-1 ties-with-shootouts into exciting 9-7 type games.
I agree. Shootouts suck. I imagine that will be eliminated by FIFA sometime.