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But it's not like the NFL is always a score fest either. It seems that way because you have different ways to score and each is worth multiple points anyway.

Looking at a random week last season you end up with converted scores of: 3-7, 3.5-1.5, 3.5-5, 2.5-3, 4-0, 2.5-3, 2.5-3.5, 2.5-1.5, 3-3.5, 2-1, 3.5-3, 4-5, 3.5-4, 4.5-5, 5-4. (I counted field goals as 0.5 of a goal).

Sure, it's higher than soccer. But it's not really crazily so. I just picked a random week in the NFL, and if you converted the scores to goals (every 7 points = 1 goal) you end up with an average score of 3-3.

That's really it, the average "so much more scoring than soccer" football game in that week was 3 goals by each side.

Let's look at a couple different matchdays for soccer leagues:

NFL: 3-3
College Football: 4.5-4
Bundesliga: 2-1
Premier League: 2-0.5
La Liga: 1.5-1

So if we take away two touchdowns from each NFL game are going to abandon the sport because it's "boring and nobody scores"?

Added average week 10 scores for the Top 25 College football scores last season. If NFL fans think that Soccer is boring then College Football fans must think that the NFL is a stinker

 Iron_Captain wrote:
I don't think anything like that ever happened in football history.

In the last world cup, Portugal beat North Korea by 7-0. Those kinds of results are somewhat unusual but they aren't that rare. The only historical thing about this one was that it happened to Brazil.

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2002/jun/02/worldcupfootball2002.sport21

2002 Germany 8 Saudi Arabia 0

PhantomViper wrote:

 Iron_Captain wrote:
I don't think anything like that ever happened in football history.

In the last world cup, Portugal beat North Korea by 7-0. Those kinds of results are somewhat unusual but they aren't that rare. The only historical thing about this one was that it happened to Brazil.

Exactly. High scores like that are more common on lower levels (North Korea is far from being at the same high football level as Portugal, the same goes for Saudi Arabia), but it is incredibly rare that it happens on such high-level matches as Germany-Brazil. Brazil is the best football country in the world. Such a humiliation, I still can barely believe it.

 Iron_Captain wrote:
Such a humiliation, I still can barely believe it.

These people were invited to an event, and instead of just having some fun and letting the host win, they won't hesitate to humiliate, then curbstomp him and piss on his head...