Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NFL football is boring as hell. Especially live.

Average time of actual playing: 11-18 minutes
Commercials: ~60 minutes (more than 100 commercials)
Huddles: ~70-75 minutes
Replays, halftime, broadcasts: ~50 minutes

If they got rid of TV timeouts, it would make it a lot better, but they won't.

Any kind of game shouldn't last four hours. And you're talking an 8+hour day and hundreds of dollars to see it live. Not worth it.

Right? It's actually the sportscasters that make football interesting. Those broadcasting people have serious skills. But when you go to an actual game, it's really just a bunch of large men falling down a lot and nothing much more interesting than that. And it goes on and on for hours. There are maybe three minutes all together when things happen. It's mostly a snoozefest when you go to an NFL game in person. Which again shows how good the play-by-play and commentators are. Not in a million years could I call a live football game - for hours - and make it interesting.

Huh?

Is someone forcing them to play? They get literally Millions to play a stupid sport.

Anonymous wrote:NFL football is boring as hell. Especially live.

Average time of actual playing: 11-18 minutes
Commercials: ~60 minutes (more than 100 commercials)
Huddles: ~70-75 minutes
Replays, halftime, broadcasts: ~50 minutes

If they got rid of TV timeouts, it would make it a lot better, but they won't.

Any kind of game shouldn't last four hours. And you're talking an 8+hour day and hundreds of dollars to see it live. Not worth it.

Right? It's actually the sportscasters that make football interesting. Those broadcasting people have serious skills. But when you go to an actual game, it's really just a bunch of large men falling down a lot and nothing much more interesting than that. And it goes on and on for hours. There are maybe three minutes all together when things happen. It's mostly a snoozefest when you go to an NFL game in person. Which again shows how good the play-by-play and commentators are. Not in a million years could I call a live football game - for hours - and make it interesting.

NFL football is boring as hell. Especially live.

Average time of actual playing: 11-18 minutes
Commercials: ~60 minutes (more than 100 commercials)
Huddles: ~70-75 minutes
Replays, halftime, broadcasts: ~50 minutes

If they got rid of TV timeouts, it would make it a lot better, but they won't.

Any kind of game shouldn't last four hours. And you're talking an 8+hour day and hundreds of dollars to see it live. Not worth it.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was thinking yesterday how Blacks are taking over football due to more opportunity for them to play and frequently more ability. For some Black kids (right or wrong) it's a way out of a life of poverty and they take it. Teams used to be majority white, now they are majority Black. Coaching is now on the same trajectory as more Black players with experience become qualified to coach.

Why wouldn’t a kid who loves the game go for playing a game that pays millions of dollars a year? They are taking more precautions to avoid concussions and they have a ways to go but to claim it’s the only way to crawl out of poverty for Black people is ridiculous.

I certainly didn't mean that it is the ONLY way. But it is ONE way "to crawl out of poverty." As a result, no one (not many??) is talking to them about potential brain issues for the longterm. First and foremost, I agree any kid going for football sees it as a way to achieve fame and fortune.

My only point was that anecdotally there are far more Black players than White players today, where it used to be far more White players than Black players in the past.

I was primarily thinking in general how many things shift over time. Football players being one example.

The opposite has been happening with Major League Baseball, interestingly.

Right, there used to be so many Black non-Hispanic baseball players through sometime in the mid-2000s I’d say. Now hardly any. Little League/youth baseball has become only for the wealthy. Interestingly it seems like youth football can be played by people with lower incomes since, in the most powerhouse youth football states and areas, they will field school teams in middle school. There’s still some cost to participate of course, but the whole process isn’t as complicated as participating in one of the many sports that has become dominated by club, travel, and private teams. Youth football is still fairly accessible to less well off families.