I was mostly kidding with that comment, but all the excitement of soccer happens the few times someone tries to score (and rarely actually does) the rest of it's just running back & forth and passing to one another (lol, I guess you could say that for NFL sorta?)...like a giant game of Basketball where people use their feet instead of their hands...and the goal is larger & on the ground...wow, soccer is lame basketball? It seems mostly based on national pride (along with national rivalries) as well. I like football americano partly because there's several ways to score...I think, like most sports, you need to learn the rules & basics to know why what happens is exciting. I mean, big passes, big runs, big hits...the only thing it's missing is flamethrowers.