Why are Americans obsessed with scoring in sports?

To me inexplicably cited as one of the main reasons why Americans dislike association football (you know, the one played with the *feet*, not "gridiron") is that games tend to finish with little goals (or sometimes none).



While I do agree that a no score game is boring in most of the cases, the amount of goals scored per game doesn't say if the match was interesting to watch.



For instance, imagine you have a match that ended 4:1 for the home team. Even though all in all there were 5 goals in the game, it still means the other team was meager and didn't show any resistance and was easily subdued, meaning all 4 goals could have been scored in 40 minutes or less = generally boring game because only the home team is the one that PLAYS any ACTUAL football.



Hell it could have ended 8:0 and any ignorant-of-soccer American will tell you that that's what he expects from "the game of soccer", when it's quite otherwise!



Imagine another match that ended 1:1. There were only two goals in the game, but the final score doesn't say how many attempts there were at the opposing goal (there could have been all in all 20, but the goalies were in a brilliant shape that day) which also makes the game very exciting to watch, especially if it was in the knock-out stages of some popular cup, like Champions League or Euro/World Cup where there are top players playing for both of the teams.



I'm asking this because I know any human that generally thinks about it just a little will IMMEDIATELY know that the goals or points don't make of all the statistics (red cards, penalties, goal attempts) in ANY sport.



So, to wrap it up, I'm not American and even though I lived there for one year I still don't understand why: are Americans so obsessed with having more, more, more, bigger, bigger, bigger, when more and/or bigger **doesn't mean better in all the cases** they can imagine



Thank you for your time beforehand, and assume I'm asking this in good faith before you start ranting. :)Why are Americans obsessed with scoring in sports?
The U.S. is ranked 18th in the world in soccer, not bad for a country where (according to you) everyone dislikes soccer.Why are Americans obsessed with scoring in sports?
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