Why do Americans think soccer is boring..

The NFL has turned football into more of a concert vibe, so why expect actual action on the field?

But to answer your question, soccer--or football, as it is called on most of the planet -- relies too much on defense and strategy for the average American fan. Plus, until recent years, the average American didn't understand the rules, let alone any of the strategy. So it was sort of the same as Alistair Cooke's famous line about American baseball "being boring to boring minds". But a couple of generations of American kids and their soccer moms have now raised the IQ and the support is beginning to gain traction at all levels in the US.

Hopefully none of those boring minds entranced with the light shows, smoke bombs, and chest bumps of the NFL & NBA concert circuit will feel the need to start dumbing down soccer as they are attempting to do with baseball.