[jarrettch]

Soccer has it's dull games too. Watching teams park the bus or just kick the ball around to kill time. Thrilling stuff!

Also, as a fan of all sports, I have to say there is probably nothing more entertaining(at least to me) than the NFL Red Zone Channel. Almost no stop in the action, skip most replays, see all the big plays, often in real time. Of course playing fantasy football plays a big part in that.

Hockey is a great game to watch as well with pretty constant shots and action.

Lots of people I know don't understand how I like hockey or soccer. Some can't stand football. Some like watching sports I find boring, but I don't begrudge them or declare that a sport I find boring must be boring to everyone in the world and they're all somehow brainwashed or confused.

[douche]

Hockey is like soccer in some ways, with the important difference that they have sane substitution rules. In hockey, you have line changes every couple minutes, so when they are out there on the ice, they are going balls-to-the-wall the majority of the time. None of this jogging around, diving, booting the ball out of bounds, conserving energy that you see in pro soccer, because the players have to play the entire game, barring one or two rare substitutions.

When I played in high school, our soccer league had unlimited substitutions, and, even though the skill level was pretty low, the games were more entertaining to watch than professional soccer, because people were actually trying. You start dogging it, and you'd get the hook.