The NFL sells 3 hour games to TV. If we eliminate PATs do you think we get more regular plays or more commercials?
Remember the NFL changed clock rules (re-starting after an out-of-bounds play, for example, except in final minutes of each half).
This was to shorten the games, lower number of plays, to fit more commercials in that 3 hour window.
I don’t see that this would be anything different. I would rather a boring play to more commercials.
The NFL sells games of indeterminate and highly variable broadcast length (just look at last Sunday, the early game took a lot longer than the late game because kept doing clock eating drives). I don’t expect to get more of anything getting rid of the PATS, it’s getting rid of the most boring play in sports, it could be replaced with a moment of silence and it would be more interesting.
Even if it just tucks in more commercials, which it really won’t since PATs are untimed downs and happen right before a commercial break already, so what. It’s the most boring play in sports, it serves no purpose, it almost never fails, it’s time has passed, time to wave bye bye.