Why are all US sports so boring?

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I don't get where OP was going with his original statements. Different strokes for different folks. Aussies play rugby, the Brits invented cricket, Americans have baseball. Why judge and compare unless you want to make no damn sense.

Basketball?

Soccer is a joke. Why anybody would want to watch a bunch of skinny Eurotrash run around at 40% and MAYBE eke out a single goal for a thrilling, high scoring 1-0 finish is beyond me.

In America we have real athletes, like Calvin Johnson and LeBron James, so we have sports that actually take more than lots of endurance. If Americans took soccer half as seriously as the rest of the world we would dominate every single World Cup. It's just that we realize soccer sucks, so our best athletes play real sports like football and basketball.

As far as baseball goes, yea, I could see how people find it boring. I love it though.

"Soccer is a joke. Why anybody would want to watch a bunch of skinny Eurotrash run around at 40% and MAYBE eke out a single goal for a thrilling, high scoring 1-0 finish is beyond me.

In America we have real athletes, like Calvin Johnson and LeBron James, so we have sports that actually take more than lots of endurance."

Having played all of these sports you mention Football(the one where you use your feet) and Basketball require the most endurance. Fitness levels of Football players are remarkably high, particularly those who play in midfield who run, at almost full speed, for an average of between 10-13 km (8ish miles) a game while also enduring scuffles and tackles and endless bursts of acceleration. You have to be a top athlete to handle it.

Skinny Eurotrash? The whole world apart from the US plays this sport. Remarkably ignorant comment. And 'skinny'? Have you seen some of these players? Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Didier Drogba, Alex Song, Michael Essien, anyone on the Sengalese team? They're huge, powerful athletes. Without strength you get nowhere in Football. Cristiano Ronaldo may be a little thinner, but he's an athlete at his peak.

If America decided to take Football seriously they would probably be rather good, that is true. The US are resourceful when it comes to creating great athletes. But they do dedicate a lot of money to Football and thousands of Americans play it very seriously but they are not as good as a tiny country such as Belgium. It's simply because the game isn't in their blood. They prefer games where points are scored all the time - as if the amount of points in a game is what makes it interesting - and there is the possibility of stopping every few minutes for commercials.

ok ok ok, I'm English and I do not find USA sports dull.

The fact is, we are brought up on our own sports so appreciate them more.

But yank sports are cool, there's always something going on and music and razzmatazz and girls wearing less than bikinis bouncing around.

plus I used to play Madden American football and ice hockey on the Megadrive in the 90's and they were always better than our own football (soccer) games.

I know the first thing I think of when I see an American Footballer is - 'I bet he is educated'

While I think your comment is a bit arrogant, I do agree that it takes a lot more to fully understand baseball than most other sports. It looks simple on the surface and to most of us fans. However after watching it for years and playing it a bit up through high school, I had a chance to listen to two very experienced commentators/former players call the American League playoff series in a way I had never heard before.

They discussed defense in terms of count on the hitter, runner postion etc. For example they said if the next pitch was taken as a strike, the fielders would move shift positions in a certain way. They explained why in terms of what the following pitch would be. Sure enough, that is what happened.

I had been aware of this but not of the depth and complexity they were explaining.