Yeah right, as if golf and bass fishing provide flurries of activity.
Doesn't it make you wonder why a 6o minute football game takes over two hours to play. Could it be that more time is spent in "down time" than actual playing? The same for baseball and basketball, whereas in soccer, the action is primarily non-stop. Boring my a**.
Yeah, that one's a hoot, golf. Where you see literally 1% of the action if you watch it on TV and where the players have guts, play in pastels, and are about as athletic as my grandma.
They're regular 'ol Americans, but the actually athletic men who watch and play soccer, and the sport itself, are "gay."
How profound.
Chess tournaments are primarily non-stop too. And that is BORING. So, non-stop does not equal action and excitement.
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.
I don't know if your a** is boring, but soccer sure is.