Average premier league has 2.75 scores - so NFL has 3x as much scoring.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5878013&forum_id=2#49967095)

The reasons field goals are relevant is because there were exciting plays before it that then are given meaning by the field goal.

Maybe there was a spectacular punt return, a 35 year old deep bomb, a running back breaking 4 tackles. You might not get the full 7 points, but you get something for those efforts. Contrast that with soccer, where even though i don't think the play is that exciting, if you are arguing that there are these amazing non-goal plays - almost none of them actually matter.

To that point, there's nothing inherently intersting about a TD or a goal either. Half of all TDs are like the least interesting play on the drive.

And half or more of soccer goals aren't that interesting - its just random bounces. You can't even see who kicked it half the time as a viewer. It's a huge negative IMO that the strategy of "the beautiful game" seems to be "let's kick the ball at someone's head and maybe it will bounce funny and go in". It's just not as strategic as a QB trying to purposefully float a ball into a 1 foot opening in the back of the end zone.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5878013&forum_id=2#49967143)

If nfl games routinely ended 0-0 with no real TD threats and maybe just a pair of missed FGs on each side, yes ppl would say that sucks ass.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5878013&forum_id=2#49967115)

KFTPM is probably the worst tiebreaker in all of sports, and is indirectly largely responsible for the persistence of ties in soccer. It is "exciting" at the expense of every other thing you'd hope for in a tiebreaker, like fairness, reproducibility, rewarding the same skills that matter in the rest of the game (while trying to shake out an actual result), etc. I guess I'll add "it'll get you a result" to "exciting," but bear in mind that's true of a coin toss.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5878013&forum_id=2#49967189)

also Nothing Happens in soccer when they're not scoring

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5878013&forum_id=2#49967119)

In the NFL, shutouts are 2.5%.

So in soccer you are 15X more likely to tune in and not see your team score once.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5878013&forum_id=2#49967151)

even a retarded nigger could name tons of them. literally, an actually mentally retarded black NFL fan would have no problem having a coherent conversation for like 10 minutes about this topic, and he would be able to make real substantive points

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5878013&forum_id=2#49967160)

Maybe if they tripled the net length it would be more interesting idk but the soccer “plays” with three guys passing it or whatever are nothing in comparison to football plays which require the effort of the entire team

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5878013&forum_id=2#49967223)

The best part of soccer was that it was a calm and enjoyable sport you could watch for 45 minutes at a time without any commercials, but now there are commercials.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5878013&forum_id=2#49969141)