NFL: AFC Championship Game - New England vs San Diego

As the football season in the States draws to a close I can't deny that I get interested in who will make it to the Super Bowl this year. But this curiousity quickly fades away when the games start and the whole game freezes in tactics. Compared to a dynamic sport like Rugby - which might be the only sport which could be compared to American Football which in Germany is labelled as "Pitch Chess" - what is shown ion the screen is just plainly boring. A move, 30-45 sec break, another move, another break, you get the picture. Sure, there are certain plays which really look good, but in the end there really isn't any individual finesse in the game. In Football a single player can inspire the whole team by making a brilliant move in one instant with which noone, not even his team mates might have expected. American Football on the other hand is completely controlled by the head coaches with the players simply carrying out the orders of the head coach. So one could really say that the coach is the chess player and the players on the pitch are just the stones he moves around during a match. What's also rather disappointing is that the teams don't make any use of the possibility to pass the ball after they have crossed the line of scrimmage. This would bring the game to a whole new level, at least from my perspective. There had been a video on some streaming page in which a high school or college team passed the ball over 20 times before carrying it into the endzone for a touchdown. THAT was a great play for an American Football match.
Now I am no expert and I might not see the beauty in the game and I acknowlegde that there are millions of fans who really love the game. Maybe I'm just annoyed by those horrible commercial breaks which really cut the whole television coverage into way too small pieces.

Anyway, this will be different for the NFC Championship Game since this will be shown on German public television and they are not allowed to show commercials there at that time of night. In New England meanwhile the Patriots and the Chargers play one of the better matches I have seen so far. Especially the New England offense makes the game look like a hot knife go through butter, as they'd say in Germany. The half time score is NE 14 SD 9. And because of the lack of alternatives I guess I will be watching the 2nd half as well...