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Technofreak:KiwiNZ:
The Football played with the oddly shaped round ball can go, and very often, for 90 minutes with zero scoring.
American Football is played for 60 minutes, 30 each way.
Your point is?
With Football there doesn't have to be any scoring for the game to be entertaining and exciting to watch.
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kiwitrc:wakaridnnz: The Super Bowl is now up on the NFL Game Play app and the condensed version of the game is 43m 32s
Hey thanks, I might sit down and watch this later.
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DrCheese:Technofreak:DrCheese:NonprayingMantis: The game lasts an hour, but the ball is in play for only 12-13 minutes. Each play lasts an average of 6 seconds before the ball goes dead. The time it takes to play a game, with all the ad breaks etc, is about 3 hours.
So you get 12 mins of action in 3 hours. No wonder people get bored by it.
Um, no. In a three-hour game, there is one hour of action, not 12-13 minutes. The clock always runs when the ball is in play.
David.
I've never watched a game of American Football, but I expect the writer of the article in Forbes a couple of years as referenced in a link in an earlier post has watched the game a few times. This is what he said;
the typical NFL game lasts more than three hours, only 6 percent of the total—eleven minutes—is actually spent playing with the ball and attempting to move it forward. The other 94 percent of the time is spent sitting, standing around, and talking about playing rather than actually playing.
The 12 minutes of action comment from NonprayingMantis sounds about right. True the metrics from a game of Rugby can be pretty bad too (not as bad a 6%) but you don't need to sit down for 4 hours to watch the game.
Whoever wrote that is writing utter rubbish. There is one hour where the ball is in play. The clock stops when the ball is not in play, with a few exceptions.
Very few games last four hours, by the way.
David.
eracode: Having not much better to do on Monday afternoon, I sat down to watch it live on ESPN. I had never really watched NFL before and tried to figure out how it worked just by watching. This was frustrating and I just didn't get it. Towards the end of the first quarter I googled for the rules and found a brief outline in the intro to the Wikipedia page on American Football.
This was a revelation - the main rules and objectives are very simple and once I saw those, I really enjoyed the game and it would have been better if it hadn't been one-sided, as commented by others here. Ended up watching the whole thing although at one point in the first quarter I had to pause it for about an hour, so when I resumed, I was able to FF through ads and some stoppages. Might have been a bit of a drag if I had not been able to do that.
I don't pretend to understand the finer points of play moves, tactics and strategy of the game but enjoyed it at a simple level nonetheless.
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Handsomedan: I think the point has been proven - after 6 pages of debate, there's plenty of people in NZ wgo care enough for it to be broadcast...
That's not to say it's a global game, or a good one, for that matter - that's an entirely different set of debates.
All in all, 6 pages ina day or two is pretty good going for a fringe sport on a geek-site.
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I see Super Bowl 50 is on TV1 but my TiVo EPG says nothing about HD.. Hope they're not planing to show it in SD..
Anyone know??
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old3eyes:
I see Super Bowl 50 is on TV1 but my TiVo EPG says nothing about HD.. Hope they're not planing to show it in SD..
Anyone know??
TV1 or the TVNZ popup channel? The previous games have been on the popup (also streamed on tvnz on demand).
There are lots of sports I enjoy and lots more I don't much care for. I quite like American football. The very first time I went to the US I arrived on Super Bowl Sunday and enjoyed a free lunch put on by my hotel, with the game on a big screen. I made friends with a guy who had played college football and explained the rules and tactics (and statistics that seem an important part of many American sports). On the other hand, I've never been into rugby league or basketball. So I'm much more interested in the Super Bowl than, say, a Warriors or Breakers game, but I accept that many (most?) people in New Zealand probably don't agree.
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