Boring is in the eye of the beholder. Sports like soccer and the longer forms of cricket are the opposite of boring to those who value suspense more than consta

Boring is in the eye of the beholder. Sports like soccer and the longer forms of cricket are the opposite of boring to those who value suspense more than constant "action" (where I use "action" to mean the scoring mechanism moving). Ctrl-F this Freakonomics episode for "soccer" to read it put better than I can: http://freakonomics.com/2015/07/29/how-to-create-suspense-full-transcript/ http://freakonomics.com/2015/07/29/how-to-create-suspense-fu...