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Whats the big deal watching a bunch of guys chasing each other around with a ball? Fag sport, same with basketball.
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I think my only gripe is that it is always in either a dome (no messy weather elements) or some part of the country where it never gets below 70 degrees.

Make this shit interesting and put all the cities in a lottery. Every season we pick a new city and rain, shine, tsunami, snow, these bastards will trudge out there and give us four quarters of no-holds barred football.
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Thebottomline wrote:Whats the big deal watching a bunch of guys chasing each other around with a ball? Fag sport, same with basketball.

You are wrong. It's a great sport, and more than any other sport, it's PERFECT for television.
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Crazy Levi wrote:
Thebottomline wrote:Whats the big deal watching a bunch of guys chasing each other around with a ball? Fag sport, same with basketball.

You are wrong. It's a great sport, and more than any other sport, it's PERFECT for television.
That's just it. It's a sport designed for television. It's a short-attention span thing.

That said I don't think it's for faggots, that's wrestling FTW. I'm not a football fan, because it bores the fuck out of me. Some of the most amazing displays of athleticism I've ever seen were on a football field ( ie. Jerry Rice ). So I don't question it's integrity.

How's this? I'm not a football fan, but even I know that Brett Favre became "The Great Quaterback" when Montana, Young, Elway and Marino retired. Now there's Brady and Manning ( not the retard in NJ ). Yet Brett still has hangers on intercepting all his naysayers.
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killeverything wrote:
Crazy Levi wrote:
Thebottomline wrote:Whats the big deal watching a bunch of guys chasing each other around with a ball? Fag sport, same with basketball.

You are wrong. It's a great sport, and more than any other sport, it's PERFECT for television.
That's just it. It's a sport designed for television. It's a short-attention span thing.

That said I don't think it's for faggots, that's wrestling FTW. I'm not a football fan, because it bores the fuck out of me. Some of the most amazing displays of athleticism I've ever seen were on a football field ( ie. Jerry Rice ). So I don't question it's integrity.

How's this? I'm not a football fan, but even I know that Brett Favre became "The Great Quaterback" when Montana, Young, Elway and Marino retired. Now there's Brady and Manning ( not the retard in NJ ). Yet Brett still has hangers on intercepting all his naysayers.
Baseball sucks. I can't watch three straight fucking pitches without flipping the channel.

That...coupled with the ridiculous hypocrisy and sanctimonious nature of "baseball culture," makes the whole enterprise unbearable.

Football is America's sport now. Baseball is a distant 2nd.
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I love baseball and football, but yeah, football has long since eclipsed baseball as America's past time.
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I love baseball but just thinking of this made me realize I love football more.
Football is the only sport that I will watch all playoff games no matter if "my" team is in it or not.
Not so much with baseball playoffs. Might watch a game here and there.
Hockey I barely watch anymore thanks to the Bruins.
Basketball sucks dick and I haven't given a fuck about it since the late 80's.
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puzzleface wrote:I think my only gripe is that it is always in either a dome (no messy weather elements) or some part of the country where it never gets below 70 degrees.

Make this shit interesting and put all the cities in a lottery. Every season we pick a new city and rain, shine, tsunami, snow, these bastards will trudge out there and give us four quarters of no-holds barred football.
The last time the game was in Miami it was played in rain.
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the grey cup games played in the snow are classics.

look up 1996........eddie brown......gizmo......jimmy the jet
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killeverything wrote:
That's just it. It's a sport designed for television. It's a short-attention span thing.
Anyone who has ever seen a football game in person knows this is 110 percent true. You talk about a start-and-stop experience. Football is for TV and tailgating.
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WhiteHouseSubsAC wrote:
killeverything wrote:
That's just it. It's a sport designed for television. It's a short-attention span thing.
Anyone who has ever seen a football game in person knows this is 110 percent true. You talk about a start-and-stop experience. Football is for TV and tailgating.
Yeah right...I went to 6 NFL games this year (3 redskins 3 saints) and they were awesome. It's great on TV and great in person.

Baseball sucks on TV and is ok in person if you get drunk enough or its a gorgeous day.
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Crazy Levi wrote:
WhiteHouseSubsAC wrote:
killeverything wrote:
That's just it. It's a sport designed for television. It's a short-attention span thing.
Anyone who has ever seen a football game in person knows this is 110 percent true. You talk about a start-and-stop experience. Football is for TV and tailgating.
Yeah right...I went to 6 NFL games this year (3 redskins 3 saints) and they were awesome. It's great on TV and great in person.

Baseball sucks on TV and is ok in person if you get drunk enough or its a gorgeous day.
it would bore the knickers off a nun, it's so fucking dull. watch rugby a real mans sport.
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Live football rules, other than that whole TV commercial break bullshit. 3rd and 4, Team A needs to score with 2:25 left and Team B is trying to hold them, let's go to a commercial and watch all the players stand around on the field with their thumb up their ass for 3 minutes while they wait for the go ahead from Papa network. That's always extremely lame. Baseball rules live too. It's boring as a motherfucker on TV unless you have some kind of rooting interest though.
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bane wrote:Live football rules, other than that whole TV commercial break bullshit. 3rd and 4, Team A needs to score with 2:25 left and Team B is trying to hold them, let's go to a commercial and watch all the players stand around on the field with their thumb up their ass for 3 minutes while they wait for the go ahead from Papa network. That's always extremely lame. Baseball rules live too. It's boring as a motherfucker on TV unless you have some kind of rooting interest though.
The Wall Street journal agrees with you. The game itself is actually jam packed with nothing.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142 ... 61406.html

Football fans everywhere are preparing to settle in for the NFL's biggest and most electric weekend of the season—a four-game playoff marathon that will swallow up at least 12 hours of broadcast time over two days.

But here's something even dedicated students of the game may not fully appreciate: There's very little actual football in a football game.


Photo illustration: Jeff Mangiat, photos, Getty Images (2), Associated Press (cheerleader), NFL (replay)
.According to a Wall Street Journal study of four recent broadcasts, and similar estimates by researchers, the average amount of time the ball is in play on the field during an NFL game is about 11 minutes.

In other words, if you tally up everything that happens between the time the ball is snapped and the play is whistled dead by the officials, there's barely enough time to prepare a hard-boiled egg. In fact, the average telecast devotes 56% more time to showing replays.

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.

If you think the networks are a little too fond of cheerleaders, you may be mistaken: In these broadcasts, only two networks showed cheerleaders at all. And when they did, they were only on camera for an average of three seconds. "We make it a point to get Dallas cheerleaders on, but otherwise, it's not really important," says Fred Gaudelli, NBC's Sunday Night Football producer. "If we're doing the Jets, I couldn't care less."

Football—at least the American version—is the rare sport where it's common for the clock to run for long periods of time while nothing is happening. After a routine play is whistled dead, the clock will continue to run, even as the players are peeling themselves off the turf and limping back to their huddles. The team on offense has a maximum of 40 seconds after one play ends to snap the ball again. A regulation NFL game consists of four quarters of 15 minutes each, but because the typical play only lasts about four seconds, the ratio of inaction to action is approximately 10 to 1. (At the end of a game, if one team has a lead and wants to prevent the other team from scoring again, standing around and letting the clock run down becomes a bona fide strategy).

For broadcasters, filling these idle moments is always a unique challenge. Ken Crippen, the executive director of the Professional Football Researchers Association, who has a collection of broadcasts that date back to the 1930s, says most early telecasts showed a constant feed of the field with a few shots of the scoreboard for variety. "It was basically just constant, live action," he says.

Things began to change in the mid-1960s, when instant replay became commonplace. By the 1970s, broadcast crews had expanded to an average of eight cameras and three production trucks, a number that has only continued to grow. Mr. Gaudelli says that by the 1990s, some football broadcasts showed about 100 replays per game.

In the past decade, regular-season football telecasts have evolved into major productions that can cost between $150,000 and $250,000. Networks say they have anywhere from 80 to 200 people on hand per game with dozens of cameras. (NBC says its broadcasts require seven production trucks.) Producers say all this technology has made it easier to show shots of wacky fans, demonstrative coaches on the sidelines and video segments prepared before the game.

The result is that broadcasters have so many options that they have to spend a lot more time planning what to show—and what not to. Lance Barrow, CBS's lead football-game producer, says his crew meets for several hours with players and coaches from the home and road teams in the two days before kickoff just to prepare material to present during dead time. In August, Bill Brown, a senior football producer for Fox, says he met with about 100 colleagues at a conference center in New York to prepare the network's game plan for the season.
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Live - Hockey and it's not even close. There is actually a dangerous aspect involved in watching a hockey game.

TV - CFL or college football. Hockey is still good on tv, but it's so far removed from the live experience it has to be downgraded.
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johnk5150 wrote:
bane wrote: the average amount of time the ball is in play on the field during an NFL game is about 11 minutes.
I love football, but come on, that's ridiculous. I've been to about a dozen games, and I spent a lot of time watching the guy with the big orange glove whose job it is to signal the refs when TV is back from commercial and the game can commence.
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thejuggernaut wrote:Live - Hockey and it's not even close. There is actually a dangerous aspect involved in watching a hockey game.

TV - CFL or college football. Hockey is still good live, but it's so fa removed from the live experience it has to be downgraded.
Not a hockey fan, never have been, probably never will be, that's probably a cultural difference. I've tried to watch it just so I can see what I've been missing. I've been too a few minor league games, and they're lots of fun, but I can't for the life of me figure out how you can follow the puck on TV.
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johnk5150 , i posted the same a few weeks ago,check out my post ' is gridiron a pile of shite?'
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WhiteHouseSubsAC wrote:
johnk5150 wrote:
bane wrote: the average amount of time the ball is in play on the field during an NFL game is about 11 minutes.
I love football, but come on, that's ridiculous. I've been to about a dozen games, and I spent a lot of time watching the guy with the big orange glove whose job it is to signal the refs when TV is back from commercial and the game can commence.
The ball is in play for exactly 60 minutes right? A typical game takes, what, 3 hours? I've been to tons of games, and I think it's a great time, but yeah, that commercial break shit sucks ass.
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thejuggernaut wrote:Live - Hockey and it's not even close. There is actually a dangerous aspect involved in watching a hockey game.

TV - CFL or college football. Hockey is still good live, but it's so fa removed from the live experience it has to be downgraded.
Hockey live is great, and it's close to being in real time because it's all action while the clock runs and there aren't too many stoppages. Top-tier NCAA hockey, AHL, and NHL are all great to see live. AHL games are $18 for 3rd/4th row center ice. Definitely the best bang for your buck.

Football is best on TV. Some of those college stadiums are so big that if you have nose-bleed seats you can't tell what is happening near the ball unless it's a pass play or an RB breaks loose.
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bane wrote:
thejuggernaut wrote:Live - Hockey and it's not even close. There is actually a dangerous aspect involved in watching a hockey game.

TV - CFL or college football. Hockey is still good on tv, but it's so far removed from the live experience it has to be downgraded.
Not a hockey fan, never have been, probably never will be, that's probably a cultural difference. I've tried to watch it just so I can see what I've been missing. I've been too a few minor league games, and they're lots of fun, but I can't for the life of me figure out how you can follow the puck on TV.
Totally.

You pretty much have to grow up with it to be able to follow it.

Unless Bettman and the geniuses at Fox put a laser streak on the puck.
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SkyDog112046 wrote:
Football is best on TV. Some of those college stadiums are so big that if you have nose-bleed seats you can't tell what is happening near the ball unless it's a pass play or an RB breaks loose.
You don't get the college game experience on TV though. There's really nothing else like it. Depending on the team, the experience can trump the actual game.
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Ugmo wrote:Soccer FOR THE WHINE!!!!
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bane wrote:
SkyDog112046 wrote:
Football is best on TV. Some of those college stadiums are so big that if you have nose-bleed seats you can't tell what is happening near the ball unless it's a pass play or an RB breaks loose.
You don't get the college game experience on TV though. There's really nothing else like it. Depending on the team, the experience can trump the actual game.
I saw Ohio St vs Michigan in Columbus about 5 years ago. The atmosphere was great, but the seats sucked. I would have rather watched it on a big screen TV at a sports bar.
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Its a poor mans Rugby. Watch some six nations this weekend instead.

Agree about Ice Hockey being the best live experience for a sport. And no i'm not Canadian.
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pieceofme wrote:Its a poor mans Rugby. Watch some six nations this weekend instead.

Agree about Ice Hockey being the best live experience for a sport. And no i'm not Canadian.
Rugby is sinfully boring to watch but amazingly fun to play.
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thejuggernaut wrote:
pieceofme wrote:Its a poor mans Rugby. Watch some six nations this weekend instead.

Agree about Ice Hockey being the best live experience for a sport. And no i'm not Canadian.
Rugby is sinfully boring to watch but amazingly fun to play.
Union is shite, too much kicking. Rugby league is far better.

Soccer trumps all.
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