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John_L: I love American Football--don't get me wrong--but seriously?? You call 45 seconds between plays "playing action"??? It can be interesting for fans, but playing action in my book does not include seeing Tom Brady sitting on the bench spitting, Bilichek looking perturbed on the sidelines, 3 replays of the previous play, the offense still in a huddle, all while the game clock is ticking down or not while we WAIT for another snap! The Super Bowl had 58 commercials. Do you know how many commercials there are during either half of a soccer match on TV? Zero. How many timeouts each half, per team? Zero. How many game seconds are spent with the cameras on the coaches? Probably 40 seconds total. My point is, there are 90 minutes of actual action ("playing action") in a soccer match, but only about 23 minutes in a typical American Football game. I know because I once watched a game using a chess clock to let the seconds of genuine playing action accumulate so I could count the minutes at the end. And when you reply, I'm guessing
you (IOPHFI_INH) probably can do so without the obligatory kneejerk American anti-soccer dig so common amongst those 36 and older who don't care for the game. I don't care for curling or car racing, and so what? --to each his own. The relative merits of Football vs. American Football is not the point of this discussion so much as BigJohnD's comment, "there's far too many breaks and action replays. We want action!". I love both sports, but only 15.33% playing action over 2.5 hours is why I prefer good soccer matches over good NFL games. | -
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