11 Minuets Of Action

KRAM1 · January 15, 2010

Today's Wall Street Journal has another one of those articles on Page W1 about the amount of actual playing time in a football game. It states that "minus the 67 minutes of standing around between plays, the 17 minuets of replays, the crowd shots and the commercials, a three-hour football broadcast boils down to just 10 minuets, 43 seconds of play".

Breaks down as follows:

67 minutes of players standing around

17 minutes of replays

11 minutes of actual playing time and

3 seconds of cheerleaders.......

The most important 3 seconds of the whole broadcast! :wub:

I'd still wager that 11 minutes is more action than in an 4 hour baseball game! :rolleyes:

You just have to see one of these stories sometime each season. Interesting that it is the WSJ.

UNTflyer · January 15, 2010

It's true. I heard this as a kid and being the nerd I am I actually used my little digital Casio stopwatch to confirm it.

hickoryhouse · January 15, 2010

for as little actual content thats contained in a football broadcast I sure do love watching them....

KingDL1 · January 15, 2010

Today's Wall Street Journal has another one of those articles on Page W1 about the amount of actual playing time in a football game. It states that "minus the 67 minutes of standing around between plays, the 17 minuets of replays, the crowd shots and the commercials, a three-hour football broadcast boils down to just 10 minuets, 43 seconds of play".
Breaks down as follows:
67 minutes of players standing around
17 minutes of replays
11 minutes of actual playing time and
3 seconds of cheerleaders.......
The most important 3 seconds of the whole broadcast!
I'd still wager that 11 minutes is more action than in an 4 hour baseball game!
You just have to see one of these stories sometime each season. Interesting that it is the WSJ.

A minuet, also spelled menuet, is a social dance of French origin for two persons, usually in 3/4 time. The word was adapted from Italian minuetto and French menuet, meaning small, pretty, delicate, a diminutive of menu, from the Latin minutus; menuetto is a word that occurs only on musical scores.

That is a bunch of dancing for football, I counted 38 minuets per game. Do they have minuet reviews?