NFL = 11 minutes of action
interesting study and article, don't know how it shakes out for college.
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so when you say you are watching the football game, you are really watching players standing around with some playing in between.
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so when you say you are watching the football game, you are really watching players standing around with some playing in between.January 21st, 2010 at 9:49 AM ^
Football game = Randy Moss?
January 21st, 2010 at 9:54 AM ^
This was already posted about two weeks ago.
January 21st, 2010 at 9:58 AM ^
Well the article was written on the 15th, so this seems unlikely.
January 21st, 2010 at 10:07 AM ^
Yeah, maybe it just seems like it was posted two weeks ago. They could have updated the article though, WSJ does that quite frequently.
January 21st, 2010 at 10:38 AM ^
It was posted on the 15th.
http://mgoblog.com/mgoboard/ot-wall-street-journal-article-nfl-broadcas…
Really, this board has gotten to the point where if it's more than a day or so old it's pretty safe to assume that it's been posted already.
January 21st, 2010 at 10:15 AM ^
By the time the commerical breaks end I've often forgotten what was happening.
January 21st, 2010 at 10:52 AM ^
is more Chess than it is checkers. Part of the enjoyment is the analysis, the strategery, the coaching, etc... I enjoy the moments between those 11 minutes just as much as the action itself.
January 21st, 2010 at 10:54 AM ^
Are the links broken for anyone else?
January 21st, 2010 at 12:43 PM ^
If you examine what you're clicking a little closer, you'll figure out how to remove the OP's errors.
January 21st, 2010 at 12:41 PM ^
I appreciate the comment, and love any critique of the volume of commercials, but this "11 minutes of action" thing is silly. Calling plays and responding to one another's personnel with substitutions is action. Reading a defense and calling an audible at the line is action. And speaking broadly the planning, anticipation, and then dissection is all of interest and carries its own drama.
How does this theory apply to other sports events?
The 100m dash is 10 seconds of action?
Would you measure the action of a golf broadcast by only counting time while a ball is in motion?
Does the NFL draft only add up to the number of players X whatever amount of seconds it takes to say their names?
It's a funny point to make but I think a perspective that thinks 'nothing is happening' while the ball is not in play is not the perspective of a football fan.