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[camay2327]

I thought I would put this article here... Good waste of time though...

Football games have 11 minutes of action

Football fans are coming off the NFL's biggest and most electric weekend of the season — a four-game divisional playoff marathon that swallowed up 12 hours of television broadcast time over two days

But here's something even dedicated students of the game may not fully appreciate: There's very little actual football in a football game.

According to a Wall Street Journal study of four recent broadcasts, and similar estimates by researchers, the average amount of time the ball is in play on the field during an NFL game is about 11 minutes.

In other words, if you tally up everything that happens between the time the ball is snapped and the play is whistled dead by the officials, there's barely enough time to prepare a hard-boiled egg. In fact, the average telecast devotes 56% more time to showing replays.

So what do the networks do with the other 174 minutes in a typical broadcast? Not surprisingly, commercials take up about an hour. As many as 75 minutes, or about 60% of the total air time, excluding commercials, is spent on shots of players huddling, standing at the line of scrimmage or just generally milling about between snaps. In the four broadcasts The Journal studied, injured players got six more seconds of camera time than celebrating players. While the network announcers showed up on screen for just 30 seconds, shots of the head coaches and referees took up about 7% of the average show.

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[Dave Burrell]

I got to see my first live 49er's game this year and the game did seem to go much faster live in person then it does on TV

and in all these years from watching games on TV I had this expectation that the fields were super huge (larger then life from the tv views) - but after being there it was just like a high school football game except with a bigger, way more expensive stadium

I can't wait for the games this weekend - its going to be a great day of football - this is my favorite part of the playoffs even more then the superbowl itself

The big game to watch is Vikings and Saint's because I'm pretty sure the Colts already have their game won...but we will see...

[Bill Z]

I got to see my first live 49er's game this year and the game did seem to go much faster live in person then it does on TV

and in all these years from watching games on TV I had this expectation that the fields were super huge (larger then life from the tv views) - but after being there it was just like a high school football game except with a bigger, way more expensive stadium

I can't wait for the games this weekend - its going to be a great day of football - this is my favorite part of the playoffs even more then the superbowl itself

The big game to watch is Vikings and Saint's because I'm pretty sure the Colts already have their game won...but we will see...

Colts got it, but had me nervous in the beginning when it was 14-7, thinking the jets get touchdowns while the colts get field goals, but then Peyton got it together.

[camay2327]

The Vikings so deserved to win the game today. Brett Favre played his axxxsss off. His guys just fumbled to many times. The play towards the end when they called pass interference on the Viks really sucked as it was an uncatchable ball. It was a good game however and I will be rooting for the Colts in two weeks.

[Dave Burrell]

The Vikings so deserved to win the game today. Brett Favre played his axxxsss off. His guys just fumbled to many times. The play towards the end when they called pass interference on the Viks really sucked as it was an uncatchable ball. It was a good game however and I will be rooting for the Colts in two weeks.

If he only hadn't thrown that last pass.... ah well, congrats to the Saints, that was a great game

[rlsliger]

The Vikings so deserved to win the game today. Brett Favre played his axxxsss off. His guys just fumbled to many times. The play towards the end when they called pass interference on the Viks really sucked as it was an uncatchable ball. It was a good game however and I will be rooting for the Colts in two weeks.

they deserved to win? not with 6 fumbles, 3 lost and 2 interceptions!

[Steve Heard]

Who dat say dey gonna beat dem Saints?

[nomad]

they deserved to win? not with 6 fumbles, 3 lost and 2 interceptions!

And don't forget a penalty for 12 men in the huddle AFTER taking a time out!! How does that happen?

His gunslinger attitude really caught up with him on that last pass, he could have run it out after 4-5 yds and then they could have kicked the field goal.

[legofamily]

It was a good game and at least it wasn't boring. The fumbles and the Brett Favre interception really hurt the Vikings. The Superbowl should hopefully be a good game.

[john]

They must have put Crisco on that ball it was dropped so many times. A great game!

[folsombound]

His gunslinger attitude really caught up with him on that last pass,

Dead on! The Vikings made a lot of mistakes but should have won and would have if Bret had run on that play instead of trying to force a pass.

I guess I hope the Saints win the Superbowl since I really don't like the Colts but I don't have very strong feelings either way. I think the highlight of the game for me will be The Who at halftime.

[Bill Z]

I'll be rooting for my squares on the football pool, nothing more, nothing less.

[B&G]

My picks for this week: The NFC in the pro bowl. Should be a shootout with Warner and Fitzgerald hooking up a couple of times and sharing the MVP.

Anyone else watching?

[nhardy]

My picks for this week: The NFC in the pro bowl. Should be a shootout with Warner and Fitzgerald hooking up a couple of times and sharing the MVP.

Anyone else watching?

Sadly, no. The NFL Pro-Bowl is the equivalent of watching a WNBA or NHL game.

Hat's off to those who made the squad though.

[Bill Z]

Sadly, no. The NFL Pro-Bowl is the equivalent of watching a WNBA or NHL game.

Hat's off to those who made the squad though.

I don't bother watching the Pro-bowl either.
It's a bunch of great players, that typically have no mesh as a team, so it doesn't make for good football. No one wants to push so hard they might get injured.