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Also, after watching a little more football, I can now watch a 2-0 match and see how that result can be just as decisive as a 35 - 7 victory.

(One more tip for the Amercian Football fan: multiplying every score by 7 is a good way to convert to something more familiar, kind of like converting Celcius to Fahrenheit.)

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7 is a very close approximation.

In 2006, the average world cup combined score was 2.3 goals: http://www.insidescience.org/current_affairs/best_team_not_g...

In 2006, the average NFL combined score was 20.7 points: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_average_score_for_one_...

20.7/2.3 = 9

Your NFL comparison is off by 2x, the numbers were for a single team. "What is the average score for one team in an NFL game?"

You are correct. The multiplier becomes 18!

Is it really? How about the US comeback after going 2-0 down? And it does happens a lot.

I believe the grandparents meaning is that a 2-0 final score can be viewed as a crushing defeat, not that a 2-goal deficit is an unrecoverable situation.

I am not sure about that. Scores of 1-0, 2-0, 2-1 are the most common scorelines. I would say difference of 4 or more is more crushing

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