Are you the type of fan who prefers high-scoring shootouts (i.e., 45-38 in football, 14-9 in baseball, 6-4 in soccer, etc…or do you prefer low-scoring defensive battles (i.e., 1-0 in soccer, 2-1 in hockey, 1-0 in baseball, etc.?)
Seems that traditionalists typically prefer low scoring while modern fans like entertaining, high scoring games.
I get enough low-scoring defensive battles in my love life. I want action, excitement when “spending” the time I allot for entertainment, otherwise I’m liable to change the channel or check out something else on the internet.
Both, of course. Variety and unexpected results are what make sports interesting.
If every game was a shootout it’d be dull. If every game was a defensive contest it’d be dull.
In the 1993 World Series, in Game 4, the Blue Jays beat the Phillies 15-14, which remains the highest scoring World Series game ever. It was awesome. In Game 5, Curt Schilling shut out the Blue Jays and the Phillies won 2-0, an absolutely wonderful pitching performance. That was awesome too, and those games were awesome in part because you couldn’t expect those things to happen.
I like good games. Good games can be either.
Like RickJay, I like to see some of both. But when I was a football fan, my balance of preferences was much more towards shootouts and away from defensive battles than it was (and is) in baseball.
Take Super Bowl #9, where the Steelers led the Vikes 2-0 at the half. Cool that it happened once, but I’d have hated to see a steady diet of games like that. OTOH, anybody who was watching still probably remembers that incredible 1984 BC-Miami game where Doug Flutie and Bernie Kosar kept on one-upping each other, culminating in that final hail-Mary pass by Flutie for the 47-45 win.
Baseball’s more the reverse for me. This was first time I ever saw a game in Fenway, on the Saturday of Memorial Day weekend in 1977. After being down 10-4 early, the Red Sox’ bats woke up, and they won, 17-12. Damn, what a game that was - but I’d hate to see too many like it. Give me ten 2-1 pitching duels for every donnybrook like that Fenway game.
I’m a huge fan of low-scoring defensive battles. It’s funny, because this reason:
is the exact reason I love low-scoring defensive battles! 
Hockey’s my sport; the very best games are low scoring. The key is that the offense is also strong. Nothing ramps up the tension more than a great offense/defense dance in front of the net. Skilled and intricate puck play, the offense trying to thread the needle between skilled defense and a goalie ready and waiting for the shot… man, nothing else like it. The shot, whether it scores or not, is an explosive release of that built-up tension… what a rush!