> Twitter really added to a lengthy real-time event
But a sporting event shouldn't feel like a lengthy real-time event imho. When I'm watching a good boxing match looking at anything but the screen is the last thing on my mind.
Now american football on the other hand ... 4 hours for 11 minutes of gameplay. I just don't get it.
Yeah completely nuts. Now, Cricket! Stasis for 24 hours, punctuated by - a guy trotting across the field! Wow!
And horse racing - that's a sport, man. Nothing for half an hour, then a whole minute of horses running across a field a quarter mile away. Oh, the humanity.
Don't get me started on track and field. They are a gut-busting good time. All those people milling around for hours, then somebody hops over a pole! I can't tell you how riveting.
Yeah, American football is in great company the world 'round.
I don't like the amount of clock management that's in football or basketball. Baseball can drag on forever with all of the pitching changes, and is best watched with something else to do. But when getting together with friends to watch an event, 2-3 hours is about right.
Maybe that's because boxing doesn't stop a lot and is meant to be played in a short period of time while American football is more a military game of attrition with tons of breaks between skirmishes.
Or are you just being willfully ignorant about this?
Is that question really necessary? While the question is not directed at me, I AM ignorant to American football. Not everyone is familiar with the way American football is played, especially those from other countries. Your description does shed a new light on it - but I still don't care for it.
Apologies, the normal trope on the internet is to be stupidly ignorant about American football as an excuse to insult it. "Lol handegg rules are so strange! Who would have thought Americans would like watching people stand about for hours!"
But a sporting event shouldn't feel like a lengthy real-time event imho. When I'm watching a good boxing match looking at anything but the screen is the last thing on my mind.
Now american football on the other hand ... 4 hours for 11 minutes of gameplay. I just don't get it.