@Seed,
Bearing in mind that the principle of producing spectacular effects with varying degrees of effort is one with a spectrum, I feel quite safe in saying that NFL is considerably more to the infra end than is our form of the game. One regularly sees NFL players congratulating each other and taking the adulation of the crowd for moves which pass without notice here.
I daresay Tico has performed many a possession winning tackle without earning a hug because the game will not have stopped and nor will it allow him the time for such sentimentalities. It is expected anyway that such tackles he brings off are his job on the field and thus, as with power-line repairers, a matter of course, and are not the occasion for any mutual congratulations. If Tico fails to get himself 70 yards up the pitch to finish off the move his tackle started he might well be termed a wanker.
Possibly it derives from parental approval of infants banging on a pan with a baking spoon. One assumes that the Pavlovian reward for the little monster is the parental approval and for the parents the satisfaction of seeing their offspring performing feats of the utmost banality.
I might also say, as I have said before, that an international scientific survey of coital perseverence, which is an exemplar of spectacular effects, showed the US in the infra position (low energy), checking in at 7 minutes. It is a moot point whether that is to be commended or condemned but Steve Martin, in The Man with Two Brains, certainly seemed to think it is the former assuming he wasn't indulging his ironic aptitudes which is unlikely for obvious reasons. It is a moot point for other reasons as well which it is probably better if I refrain from elucidating.
