[ Outline ] · Standard · Linear+ Is it football season yet!

[Puppet]

I miss football!

[Bobaloo]

Stopwatch? The actual game time is 4 fifteen minute quarters. That's an hour, right there. I guess if you watch diving, the actual time spent diving is less than 2 seconds. When you go to a concert, do you think you're wasting your time if the performer takes a few minutes to talk to the audience instead of just singing his hits. A football game is a lot more than just the game.

I wasn't criticizing the sports I mentioned. You mentioned the game time would be about 1.5 hours. I just added that actual play time is much much less. While the game clock may tick 60 minutes, there's a lot of time being clicked away while there is no action on the field. Actual plays last a few seconds compared to the near near minute it takes to begin the play. Baseball has an even smaller play time to game time ratio. Now, you mentioned diving, and you're absolutely right about that. But that's a different type of action sport, albeit frustrating waiting for the next dive.

Now compare those sports to something like soccer. The play time to game time ratio is huge.

all that really doesn't matter, though. What people look for in sports is exciting performance. Soccer, while action is near nonstop, can sometimes be boring most of the game while waiting for a big play to develop. Same thing with football and baseball. Boring on the same old plays that get nowhere until a big play happens. Diving is the same way... may seem boring with the same old stuff, but eventually something exciting happens, whether it be a well executed dive, a difficult dive done well, or a complete flop. Same thing with all sports.

I guess you can measure a sport's, or game's for that matter, entertainment value by how many excitable moments there are compared to how much lag time in between. And if the event sucks, there's always the commercials. And when that fails, there's always RMM