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I can't speak for everyone else, but for me, soccer's just never grabbed my interest because so much of the game feels like it's just spent in vain. Watching teams trade possessions consistently for large scoreless periods of time just gets boring very quickly. Part of what I feel football (American football, that is) has over it is that there's a tangible sense of progress at every point. When one team reaches the other's side of the field, it's a big deal. They're likely to score, and even if they don't, they've altered field position in such a way that provides them with an obvious and distinct advantage that they are likely to capitalize on at some point. Watching soccer, that just doesn't appear to be the case. Even with possession of the ball on your opponent's side of the field, scoring is still very unlikely, and it doesn't appear that you're particularly likely to maintain any sort of positional advantage past maybe a minute or so of play.

Part of what makes American football so appealing, at least to me, is that it's very easy to get a sense of progress for every action taken. Most plays readily appear meaningful and you can easily discern what impact they can have on the final outcome. With soccer, it's not so easy, which makes it less enjoying as a spectator sport imo.