So, where are all the "why are you sitting in the snow" jokes?

Industry over-extends usage of fad and is disappointed when it can't produce magic.

Gee, would've never seen that coming.

With a name like "Tiger", waddya expect?

I never said other sports didn't have problems (tradeoffs) also. Baseball's slow pace is driving away the younger generation, I would note. The offense-oriented "steroid bubble" in baseball created more interest (ratings), before it was exposed and fell apart.

But even in American football, typical scores are around the 20's, which corresponds to roughly 4 goals per team, which is still more than typical soccer. And there are also field goals (3 points) which are sort of like half-goals. Thus each team will "score" something about 5 or 6 times on average per game.

I am not trying to start a nationalistic squabble, I am only reporting US fan psychology as I observe it, and not intending to give it value judgement. It's simply a cause-and-effect observation: if you want to increase x, you do y based on past patterns.

Based on my observations, as a general rule, offense (scoring) increases audience interest in the US. Whether that is good or bad is probably another debate. In the NBA lately they have been altering the refereeing guidelines to create more offense and a quicker pace after losing interest to college games. They are trying to grow the sport. (As a side-effect, injuries may be increasing, which is hurting "star power" draw. There may be a happy medium in terms of ratings.)

Some will say jacking up the offense ruins the "art" of the game, but whether one prefers popularity or "art" is a personal judgement. Different people have different goals (no pun intended).

Are you a plant?

Yes, but call me Robert.

but we are being "lightly toasted", not "scorched"; that's the difference. (Time to use cooking terms, for libraries-of-congress analogies are getting old.)

Soccer also needs bigger goals if it wants to thrive in the US. Scores like 2-to-1 are too boring for a US audience that prefers instant and constant gratification. Some also feel it's too random: small differences make too big a impact. Offense sells tickets. Get it up to 15 or so point averages if you want it popular in the US.

Or perhaps get rid of the goalie, or draw a line to push the goalie out of the scoring box so that fields don't have to install giant goal boxes.

Indeed. English is flooded with wannabe teachers and dreamy literature fanatics. Economics less so. The opening is comparing apples (English) to peaches (Economics) to oranges (CS). I guess it was written by an English major, eh?

"The tairsts are trying to git nukalar weapons. We must make sure their missionification is not completificated."

Water is filthy, fish have sex in it.

It's okay, they are married.

You don't get a temple "pass" unless you fully pay 10%. If you don't have one, word gets around. Maybe your parents just accepted the fact that they were not entirely "in".

If I am not mistaken, one of the reasons the Soviet Union gave up the moon race is that the rendezvous-at-the-moon approach was considered too complicated for their electronics of the day, so they tried for the "big rocket" approach instead.

However, the shear size of the thing was too much to manage, creating a giant explosion in tests that killed key researchers.

Psychlops: the one-eyed mutant psychologist.

Imagine if the christian church charged admission for services.

Mormonism doesn't outright force a 10% income "tithing", but you are pretty much ostracized if you don't pay up.

Earth has been impacted by asteroids in the past, so there's nothing to worry about. It's just a natural phenomenon

^ Cockroach lobbyist