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Funkydog posted...

I find football boring as hell, even at the best of times, but I can see the excitement created from how great set ups and "almost goals" with scrappy defenders furiously working to get the ball out can be.

I think this can be interesting, too, but...most of the time those moments are few and far between. If I had to pinpoint one reason why soccer is so boring, I think it's because the field is just...massive. It's as big as a football field but without any of the rules that make football interesting to watch. Football feels much more intimate because of how yard gains/losses factor into field position, so a 10 yard gain feels huge and nets a first down.

In soccer it's just...~80 yards of neutral territory with only a scant few spaces on the entire field that actually feel like high-tension zones. A game with a huge field like soccer or football cannot use the entire field at all times and still be interesting.

Just my opinion, obviously, but the action has to have some way of progressing without just being a shoving/kicking match in the middle for 90% of the runtime. Soccer feels boring because it looks boring. I'm sure the players are running their hardest and doing insane stuff with ball handling and positioning and whatnot, but to the average viewer it really does just look like a bunch of small dots on a huge field chasing a ball back and forth for 90 minutes straight. With way too many penalties.