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Originally Posted by Pablo
I really don't feel like the NFL is less enjoyable to watch in the slightest. And if the Chiefs were the team scoring 35+ a game, I doubt too many people on this forum would take issue with that. Purists can say they really enjoy a good defensive battle that ends up 10-6; but they're in the minority
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This could be my own personal bias, but I think there's an optimal frequency in scoring. Soccer is boring because scores are too rare, and hockey suffers a similar fate, albeit to a lesser degree. When you watch a game for three hours and there's one or two scores, that's too slow a pace.
Basketball is extremely boring because scores are too frequent. When you watch a game for two hours and there are 100 scores, there's nothing to highlight. It's an assembly line.
I always thought that football had it right. You'd watch a game for three hours and there would be six or seven scores. Maybe it's nitpicky to say that 12 scores is too many, and if I'd grown up with 12-score games maybe I'd think that's the right amount. But it feels like too many, to the point where it seems like the game just comes down to whoever scores last before the clock runs out.