It's because literally anybody can play it.

You say that like it was a bad thing, Mr. White Old Man.

I can't believe that the most repeated criticism of football (hello: US'tards are the only ones calling it "soccer") is that "it can end in a tie!" and "it can end 0-0!" . OMG we can't have that, the world must be divided in winners and losers with dollar-like scores because that's how it is in America Fuck Yeah !

You could have said that it's a very imbalanced sport (lower body gets uber-developed, upper body might as well atrophy), that its refereeing is incredibly hard because they refuse any technological aid (probably in order to maintain corrupted practices at the highest levels), that the economic fundamentals of top European leagues are completely unrealistic and manage to survive only thanks to multi-zillionaires and money-laundering oligarchs, or that the crowds have a tradition of being unruly.

But no, the big problem is that it can end 0-0, because it's quite hard, you know, to throw a ball through a relatively small "door" guarded by a very athletic and elastic (and often very tall) player, after you've somehow managed to dispatch 10 similarly athletic men coming after your ankles at high speed, and obviously while trying to control a ball with the parts of your body that are naturally less able to do so.

Oh no, we can't have that. Better to watch a thinly-disguised re-enactment of gladiatorial events, where dozens of players are on the pitch just to kick the shit out of each other -- but when one lucky guy scores, it scores not one but many points! Or a sport where, in order to compete at the most basic level, one has to automate his own movements through mind-numbing repetition, so that we can all spend an hour scoring dozens and dozens of points -- because people like high numbers! Or one that is so completely random, people make a big deal of every little detail that can make it slightly less random over dozens and dozens of games, completely fucking up their shoulders in the process, and this time it's not even for the points because scoring is. so. slow. at most baseball games anyway. And they're not even sports! Technically, they all define themselves as entertainment, and for very good reasons. No wonder they're not particularly interested in the Olympics...