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That article changed our Sundays! We have a DVR, and we record the games we care about. We fast forward through everything that's irrelevant to the game outcome. We watch a typical football game in about half an hour (and that's because sometimes we have to rewind since we fast-forwarded too far).
I'd hate to watch a football game that way. Might as well as just watch highlights. One of the great things about football IMO is the built in breaks. It lets the fan take the game in more, especially strategy wise. My heart races fast enough watching at the pace with timeouts and commercials, I'd have a heart attack trying to watch a game in 30 minutes.
I agree but ain't soccer making a rapid rise in USA?
I wonder how much of that rise also has to do with the rise of Hispanics in the US.
I don't think Soccer will ever overtake Football or Basketball in the US. And it has to be at least a good 15 years out probably from competing with Baseball or even Hockey and even that is a huge stretch.
I wonder how much of that rise also has to do with the rise of Hispanics in the US.
I don't think Soccer will ever overtake Football or Basketball in the US. And it has to be at least a good 15 years out probably from competing with Baseball or even Hockey and even that is a huge stretch.
Yeah I don't in a million years think it would match them at all if honest. ( sorry if my post implied that )
I wonder how much of that rise also has to do with the rise of Hispanics in the US.
I don't think Soccer will ever overtake Football or Basketball in the US. And it has to be at least a good 15 years out probably from competing with Baseball or even Hockey and even that is a huge stretch.
I personally think Soccer can catch Hockey. Now baseball is another story.
There was an article in the Wall Street Journal that timed all the real "action" in typical NFL games. It's about 11 minutes. That's right, of the 60-minute "playing time," and the three-hour "broadcast time," 11 minutes is the real game.
Football Games Have 11 Minutes of Action - WSJ
"So what do the networks do with the other 174 minutes in a typical broadcast? Not surprisingly, commercials take up about an hour. As many as 75 minutes, or about 60% of the total air time, excluding commercials, is spent on shots of players huddling, standing at the line of scrimmage or just generally milling about between snaps. In the four broadcasts The Journal studied, injured players got six more seconds of camera time than celebrating players. While the network announcers showed up on screen for just 30 seconds, shots of the head coaches and referees took up about 7% of the average show."
That article changed our Sundays! We have a DVR, and we record the games we care about. We fast forward through everything that's irrelevant to the game outcome. We watch a typical football game in about half an hour (and that's because sometimes we have to rewind since we fast-forwarded too far).
I don't know how to quote two posts in one reply, but to whoever said most American football players would have a heart attack if they played soccer -- you're probably right! Most of them probably couldn't last a full rugby game, either.
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Originally Posted by Bill the Butcher
I'd hate to watch a football game that way. Might as well as just watch highlights. One of the great things about football IMO is the built in breaks. It lets the fan take the game in more, especially strategy wise. My heart races fast enough watching at the pace with timeouts and commercials, I'd have a heart attack trying to watch a game in 30 minutes.
I used to watch NFL Films Game Of The Week that way the Saturday after the game. The narration and music made a great show. It went so far that as a boy I thought the most honored and important work a man could do with his life was become a NFL running back. That half hour along with the companion highlight show which covered the entire weekend is how we kept up with the league before the sports channels and the ability to pull in any game broadcast anywhere.
I agree but ain't soccer making a rapid rise in USA?
It probably seems that way in the UK because American soccer is the most popular American sport in the UKie we know about the Seattle Sounders a lot more than an equivalent NFL or baseball team, we can name American soccer players but don't now any NFL or baseball players. Its probable that football (soccer) is not so big 'over there'.
^ wow. i cant name any usa soccor players (thats sad on my part).
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