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I honestly feel totally the opposite, as I think football has the best pacing and more dynamism around it, maybe just behind basketball, but my issue with the latter is precisely what you mention, the little impact that each score makes, not to mention that fairly frequently that the first team that gets with 3-4 point lead in the first quarter, is usually the one that's going to win. Ultimately, this might point out that I'm biased for the things I look out in the sports I watch, but it is how it is, I guess.
Among the most appealing aspects for me in football are the buildups and, while there are certainly relatively few for 1:30 hour games, the offensive plays. Buildups, watching how the teams decide to approach the rival area, the tricks they develop along the line, detecting when one the teams start conceding the ball after they were the dominating one for the first half-hour, the reactions of the team that just conceded a goal, watching how teams get rid of overwhelming offense. This is stuff that happens in a 1:30 game that only has a 15 minute interruption, thus you generally can see these transitions happening right on the field. This also has led me to believe that, while football is generally less exciting than other sports, is regularly more entertaining. But of course, nothing compares to when anyone scores a good goal, and when goals happen, the tone of the matches regularly change for one way or another for the rest of the match.
American football comes as a close second in my preferances, but all these pauses that happen each time a team scores, when they request TO or something else happens, it just ruins the flow of the matches if you ask me. But it's not too much behind of football, actually, and many of the things that can happen in an American football are certainly frequently more exciting than anything else you can see in other sports.
In reality, I think football, American football, basketball and hockey are all almost equally entertaining to watch on their own rights, they have their own issues each one of them but they all can create very dramatic moments from occasion to occasion. However, the one that I simply cannot tolerate is baseball. I've played it and been to plenty of games, not to mention that my grandfather loves it, but I just can't get around it. It's a 3 hour (or sometimes even longer) match that constantly gets stuck in fouls and balls, and when the batter finally makes its thing, there's a great chance the ball it's going to end on out. Beyond that, I tottally despise that on TV they make commercial pauses after each turn, a similar issue that I have with American football, it makes the matches to feel way slower than they already are. Of course, when things get real in baseball, it gets seriously real, full bases or a tied/close game in the late inns, but these don't happen as much as I'd like to.
My bet with The_Liquid_Laser: I think the Switch won't surpass the PS2 as the best selling system of all time. If it does, I'll play a game of a list that The_Liquid_Laser will provide, I will have to play it for 50 hours or complete it, whatever comes first.
