How much football are we actually watching?

This is why my favorite sport is Hockey.
Not a single dull minute and sometimes 5+ minutes of back and forth between whistles.

Of course your team playing for 4 Stanley Cups and winning 2 in a 7 year span has helped.
#GoBolts

I still love football, ...and baseball ...and hoops too...and soccer.

Nothing has the adrenaline of hockey though.

 

Can't argue with that. The last two minutes of a playoff hockey game 7 when the team that is down 2-1 pulls their goalie... Probably some of the most intense sports you'll ever see...

 

Yep...And the 3 on 3 OT format in the regular season is so great...needs to be 10 minutes though to eliminate the stupid shootout.

 

You're literally a case study for your own question. LOL! Cool dude. Enjoy your commercials and that scintillating "pace" of play.

 

I believe in 4 of the 5 we didn't win, we lost to the eventual champion. Hell of a run.

 

This is why I watch F1, 90+ minutes of commercial free cars going fast.

 

More of an FIA Endurance (LeMans) guy myself, but F1 rocks. Definitely a spectacle.

 

I’ve been saying this forever. On YoutubeTV when you put on the game in the 3rd, they give you these options “join live” assuming game is still live “start from beginning” and “see key plays until live”.

The latter if it’s later in the 3rd quarter you will catch up on “key plays until live” in about 5 mins depending on how much action there was. Usually it’s about 5 mins to get to live.

Alternatively if you just want to watch key plays of the whole game it’s about 7 mins.

I was not surprised. When I record a game I can FF through it in no time. The 20 min half time alone takes about 30 seconds of fast forwarding.

Or just take the average amount of time for plays and how many there were total to see how many seconds have gone by.

I’ve always concluded it’s a minuscule amount of time. I believe the chart above is insanely over done and makes a very simple equation and over did it. Just how many seconds of time is played vs not.

The biggest variable for actual play time is if it’s a running team in there vs two passing teams. Clock stoppage. Then of course close stoppages for all games are similar.

Ive always known its minuscule because like I said I used to record and watch lots of games but now some YTTV games have the option to watch “all plays” and it takes 15 mins to get through and there is even some dear time during that.

All that said, it’s not a fun way to watch a game so.

Yeah but it’s always been nuts how little time is actually us watching players play compared to sports like basketball or baseball where they are playing a lot but waiting for pitches. I’ve seen baseball games that have about 3-4 total plays that matter at all.

 

Yep, getting off topic I know, but this is the run for the past 10 years:

Lost to:
2015 Chicago in Cup Final (they won the cup)
2016 Pittsburgh in ECF (they won the cup)
2017 (we missed playoffs)
2018 Washington in ECF (they won the cup)
2019 Columbus

2020 we won the cup
2021 we son the cup

Lost to:
2022 Colorado in cup final (they won the cup)
2023 Toronto
2024 Florida (they won the cup)

In this 10 year run Tampa has won the cup twice.
Played for it 4 times, and lost to the cup winner 5 times.

70% of the time they played the cup winner or won it themselves

And dont look now, but they are in the hunt again this season.

 

But that's kind of the thing about baseball. Like I said before, static energy broken up by bursts of kinetic energy, which gives gravity to the latter. If it was about scoring all the time we'd be cricket fans.

 

I didn’t say it was a shame, if you read my whole post I say but watching the game that way would be unfun, speaking about key plays in football.

 

My bad. But I was just responding to your last sentence. If it was a tight pitchers dual up until those 3-4 plays, it was still a pretty good game, or even great game depending on how it plays out.

 

Yes I've never understood redzone as a product. Sports is about a lot more than simply shiny points. It's about everything else, and doing everything else well usually has points as a byproduct. Same reason I don't like the NBA, it's not for people who like basketball it's for people who like watching something that involves points.

To me it's similar to watching the entire Rocky movie series (or a similar movie series) but just cutting out everything except the boxing scenes and even then maybe just a 7 minute montage of successfully landed punches.

Unfortunately for fans of a sport there will always be more people willing to spend money on shiny points than good fundamental play. I think these are the same people who text while driving into the back of a semi trailer at 80mph or mindlessly watch ticktok videos for hours on end despite it being spyware. Lots of them though since natural selection is no more.

 

George Carlin once said that watching golf was like watching flies f#@k. Never watched flies but I’ll take his word that is as painful to watch as golf.

 

But there's action in flies fkng.

 

Gator games I generally start watching 1 -1.5 hours after kickoff and usually catch up to live before the games over.

Any other football I watch is live and usually involves a nap.

 

For me: High school football on Friday, with the occasional college game. Saturday at my friend's house. 3 tv's and a refrigerator full of beer in his garage watching football from noon till after dark. Sunday is NFL Redzone and then SNF. The joys of being retired.

 

No, Or when I play a round of golf, how much time is me actually golfing! Lot of wondering around looking for my ball and questioning why I even took up the game!