Posted on 11/25/2022 4:04:41 AM PST by C19fan
That’s why I watch just 3 events in Track & Field.
9-12 seconds
19-22 seconds
43-48 seconds
I’ll occasionally watch World’s Strongest Man and the CrossFit Games.
The Irish sport of Hurling....now that’s a game to watch.
It doesn't take that long for Division 3 college or high school games, where there are no TV timeouts.
As Rush Limbaugh noted, the most exciting part of a soccer game comes after the conclusion, when fans of the losing team riot.
ever see football out of the country? when i was in Ger. they only show btwn the whistles, no down time... only saw it once though
Bwahahahahaha!
Do they allow ties in soccer? It says “Full Time” with the score 0 - 0.
Yes in the group stage they do. Once the group stage is over the games are elimination so they do extra time and then shootouts to decide the winner.
In the olympics ice hockey finals with the US and Canada it was loser keeps Justin Bieber.
At the start of the game they played the British and American national anthems. This is the first World Cup since 1950 when the British anthem has been "God Save the King." All the players on the US team had their hands over their hearts and were visibly singing along while the Stars Spangled Banner was being played.
Voicereason: “Yet American football takes three hours to play a 60 minute game, where the ball only actually moves about 18 minutes”
That’s like saying “’Raiders of the Lost Ark’ takes two hours to tell a story you could relate in 40 seconds.”
American football has a burst of action (the ‘play’) that has great consequence toward advancing the ‘plot’, the results of which directly influence the next play. Plays vary greatly in types of action and response, and between each burst there is (barring injury or timeout) just about the perfect amount of time to react, take in the new situation, think about it, and begin to conjeture about/anticipate the next right before it happens. All of this makes it an EXCELLENT spectator sport.
It’s like a soccer game with greater variety of action, greater amounts of intense action, more moment-to-moment drama, more scoring, more lead changes, more comebacks, greater play balance between offensive and defensive play, more highlights and better pacing and presentation for the spectator.
As for soccer being ‘the most popular sport in the world’, well... plain white rice is the most popular food in the world. But I wouldn’t call it exciting.
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