Hey, that shot at Fox News belongs in the Filibuster...

NFL Games Contain 11 Minutes of Action

Football fans everywhere are preparing to settle in for the NFL's biggest and most electric weekend of the season—a four-game playoff marathon that will swallow up at least 12 hours of 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.

NFL Games Contain 11 Minutes of Action

 

Same with baseball. That's the best feature of the MLB At Bat App (and maybe even mlb.com has the same) - the ability to watch an entire game in 12 minutes.

Are sexy boat parties part of the package that will come with Mike Tice? Supposedly he's our new O-Line Coach.

Tice is a great hire as our oline coach. Real proven track-record in that department and a significant upgrade over Harry.

Tice is a great hire as our oline coach. Real proven track-record in that department and a significant upgrade over Harry.

Yep, definitely a great hire. As I said a few posts ago when we were interviewing him, I'd be very happy with him as our o-line coach. Glad it wasn't as OC.

This is a great hire.

 

Guys that have HC experience are always big in my book. This guy actually had success as a head coach as well.

Should we bring in Mike Sherman so we can have former head coaches of every NFC North team?

Should we bring in Mike Sherman so we can have former head coaches of every NFC North team?

He's busy slowly trying to bring Texas A&M back to relevance.

 

 

Should we bring in Mike Sherman so we can have former head coaches of every NFC North team?

 

If we are going to do that, could we get Mike Holmgren instead?

If we are going to do that, could we get Mike Holmgren instead?

 

Not anymore, no

Predictions today: Indy and Arizona Advance

Fellow Seahawks fan here.

Oh nice. Some one to share the pain with, heh.

 

Just kidding, of course, I'm pretty optimistic about the upcoming system.

Didn't see this here....I thought it was great.

 

Didn't see this here....I thought it was great.

 

 

 

Try this one:

 

Patriots first play defense, meet the Saints first play defense.

This game's final score might resemble a college basketball score, defenses wake the f*ck up!!

Arizona defense, hi again.

I don't know if I've ever seen not only that many personal fouls on a single play...but the crowd react as strongly to all 3 of them.

Glad I bet the over.

Well, this game is brutal.

Now if the Colts take care of business, can we please stop hearing about how awful it was for these teams to slow down at the end?

Great to see a really good guy continue to succeed.(and also a fraternity brother of mine) I hope Brees takes them all the way to the Super Bowl.

Playoffs thus far have been pretty poor games. Blah.

cards-packers was boring?