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Soccer is handicapped as a spectator sport on TV.
An hour and a half of process with a few, far spaced exciting scoring moments. To the casual observer, it looks like a lot of kicking the ball back and forth, back and forth.
The MTV kids of the last generation are used to stimulation in quick and brief packages. Thus hit movies abound in car chases, gun battles, explosions and quick attention grabbers. My son asks us old fogies how we can watch the BBC mysteries (you know, a lot of character building, dialogue, but little action).
I think it is no accident that baseball (the king of sports when I was a kid) has declined as a spectator sport while football has taken its place.
Football fits exactly into the brief action packaging format that the MTV generations have grown up with.
An hour and a half of process with a few, far spaced exciting scoring moments. To the casual observer, it looks like a lot of kicking the ball back and forth, back and forth.
The MTV kids of the last generation are used to stimulation in quick and brief packages. Thus hit movies abound in car chases, gun battles, explosions and quick attention grabbers. My son asks us old fogies how we can watch the BBC mysteries (you know, a lot of character building, dialogue, but little action).
I think it is no accident that baseball (the king of sports when I was a kid) has declined as a spectator sport while football has taken its place.
Football fits exactly into the brief action packaging format that the MTV generations have grown up with.