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the English will suffer with boring games more than us in the united states.

Dunno about this. Test cricket is dying (the Ashes aside but even that will go the same way) but baseball seems to fare a lot better. Basketball is boring as hell because, to the untrained eye, it looks like score-score-score with no excitement. The NFL highlight reel is fun but a live match is boring. Football/soccer flows and a low scoring match is only boring to a fan if nothing else happens. It's what you are used to - when pool was introduced to English pubs it didn't take off because the clientele was used to the long strategic game of snooker. Thus "English Pool" was invented. Nowadays snooker is played very very differently with players trying to win from the off (part of the reason for the increased rate of 147 breaks) - so maybe pool would have been more successful if it had waited 40 or 50 years?

I do agree to an extent with your point but it is the soundbite ridden media that perpetuates the myth that becomes a reality. Most serious pool fans that I have met who are from the US have big respect for snooker.

Golf and tennis still fare pretty well as television sports.....

from what i have observed the english have a longer attention span then those from the u.s.
so my basic tenet has to have some merit.

I agree with both of you, in the past the US have needed to be "entertained" while watching sports but paradoxically they seem to make stuff last far too long at times (Super Bowl ~5 hours WTF) also US sports tend to have scoring which makes high scoring games.