I use lightning , I ' ve never noticed it doing that . <| sep |> Nobody hates Teddy . A lot of Vikings fans have a mean ass victim complex <| sep |> For a start , the average number of goals in a Premier League UK football match was 2 . 59 last season 10 and 00 games do happen , but aren ' t typical . However , I ' ll give you that it ' s a lot lower scoring than some sports , especially with evenly matched teams . Most games on US TV are the top division or latestage internationals , so they ' re all pretty damn good . Also , because of the rules of the game , it ' s hard to score a goal . Most goal attempts come from the following 1 Passing back and forth to effectively pull the opposing team out of formation and create a gap 2 A striker evades the player marking them and makes a run 3 Someone else executes a terrifyingly accurate pass to the striker 4 Striker has to evade defenders 5 Striker has to beat the goalkeeper , who is a huge dude allowed to use any part of his body to deflect the ball away from the goal . If any of these parts fail , then no goal , and often the other team gets possession . This leads to a lot of plays with no score . There ' s a lot of skill involved , a fair amount of strategy and tactics , and tremendous physical fitness . An average QB runs a little over a mile in a game of American Football an average premier league player runs 7 miles . Most first team players play the full 90 minutes in every match they aren ' t injured . Oh , and a premiership club has at least 38 games in a year against the 16 of the NFL . That ' s physically impressive enough for me to almost overlook the ridiculous f a l l i n g o v e r b ecausesomeonetouchedmyear diving of some players . Not quite though . Having said all that . I ' m not a big fan of watching premiership football matches live . I don ' t support a team , so I ' m not emotionally invested in it , which is a huge deal in sports . A lot of teams focus too much on defence for my taste , prizing keeping a clean sheet i . e . not conceding any goals . Even aggressive teams can spend 90 minutes attacking such a defencefocused squad , and come away with a 00 draw . I can ' t see the point in playing like that their supporters must be bored every week ! Finally , even ardent football fans only watch their team ' s games , plus a couple of other important ones cup finals , league deciders etc , and watch edited highlights of all the other matches . When you count in the other contests that go on simultaneously with the league FA cup , UEFA cup , etc . , that ' s maybe 500 games a year , so there ' s plenty of material for highlights the boring games barely get a mention . If you want to watch exciting football , watch exciting teams . I ' d say Liverpool are playing some fun football this season . Or watch some FA cup games they tend to be higherscoring because they ' re often mismatched opponents , and rooting for a tiny underdog local club against a giant premier league one makes it a lot more fun !