[wideawake]

In an American football game, 10.5 minutes of actual play occur during one clock hour of time, and more than three hours of TV time.

In soccer, it's about 90 minutes of play in about 100 minutes of time and less than two hours of TV time.

And guess what? You may not know much about American football, but American football officials can take time off the clock or put more time on the clock if they decide to.

[1rudeboy]

That's one of the things that mystifies me. I'm a NFL fan, and I can (at the proper time--and we all know when) get up, go to the bathroom, make myself a sandwich, and get a beer out of the fridge. During the game. And soccer is "boring?" Gimme a break.

[NKP_Vet]

The end of the World Cup was mass confusion. No body could figure out why the game was still going on. Too much power in the hands of the officials. Too much whinning and faking injuries from the players. I will give the players this though, they’re in damn good shape. And I like the way the clock is not stopped every other play.

[ArmstedFragg]

Several decades ago, I worked as the guy who called TV timeouts for NFL games. We tried to hide them in natural pauses, but sometimes we just needed to stop the game to get a commercial in. The refs stopped the clock for us. Not a lot of that going on in soccer.