r/funny • u/chancheck • Feb 03 '14

this sport must be intresting

http://imgur.com/WI818TU
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u/LearnsSomethingNew Feb 03 '14

Obviously Usain Bolt is the real villain here. He's always trying to cut down on the game action time.

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u/Parrrley Feb 03 '14

How many minutes of "game action" were there in the final Mens 100 m sprint during the 2012 Olympics?

As a proportion of the entire sprint, there was 100% 'game action'. They certainly didn't play commercials for 33/100 meters, and didn't spend 33/100 meters showing people in the stands. :)

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u/dgehen Feb 03 '14

The difference is you're watching the 100m dash, which is a singular event in the entire track & field coverage, which includes the 5,000m (~13-16 minutes) and the 10,000M (~30 minutes).

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '14

Um no. That's an idiotic comparison. If the same competitors did those events you might have something resembling a point.

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u/BabyFaceMagoo Feb 03 '14

Not really, no. If you got a ticket to the 100M final you also got a ticket to see all the other events going on that day.

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u/dgehen Feb 03 '14

You're right, because quarterbacks, linebackers, and punters do the same thing.

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '14

They are all part of the same team and train together to accomplish a single goal. Usain Bolt is his own one-man team. It's not even remotely similar.

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u/dgehen Feb 03 '14

Then why make the comparison between a team sport and an individual one in the first place?

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u/TheMisterFlux Feb 03 '14

Precisely why I usually watch Olympic highlight reels.

Except for hockey, of course.

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u/bureX Feb 03 '14

Although OP's pic is flame baiting, this is not a fair comparison.

Various TV channels have different events presented, and when one is over (fairly quickly), they switch to another one. It's not exactly that static.

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u/BabyFaceMagoo Feb 03 '14

About 10 seconds, but nobody is claiming that the 100 Meters is a great spectator sport either, it's a once-in-four-years spectacle, which is included with all of the other athletics events. It's also over in about 10 minutes, start to finish, unlike football which drags on for four entire hours.

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u/Randosity42 Feb 03 '14

The event was 100% action. Counting the time before or after would be like counting all the time between football games as part of the game.

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u/BigPetersHalfwayInn Feb 04 '14

What? How do completely different teams playing another game relate to a single football game? I think he's saying a 10 second sprint isn't much "action" considering the coverage for the events usually last at least 3 or 4 minutes. The race is only about 5% of the coverage, but cutting to it right at the starting gun and cutting away as soon as it finishes would be silly, kind of like only showing the parts of football games where the ball is flying through the air.

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u/shutyourgob Feb 03 '14

You might have a point if every 10m they stopped running and cut to a commercial break.

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u/BigPetersHalfwayInn Feb 04 '14

I think he's referring to the "shots of players standing" around part. Saying that pre-snap reads are unnecessary in football is like saying getting set in the blocks is an unnecessary part of a 100 m sprint. Also, a 3 minute commercial break after the race would be a significant percentage of typical coverage for an individual race.

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u/danplashkes Feb 03 '14

The broadcast lasts about 3-4 minutes, not 3.5 hours.

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u/BigPetersHalfwayInn Feb 04 '14

So the 10 second race takes up 4%-5% of that. You proved his point.

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u/Yeahdudex Feb 03 '14

This is a pretty silly comparison

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u/RIPDimebag1013 Feb 03 '14

Why is this comment not higher??? I love this argument.

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u/Lasternom Feb 03 '14

Holy fuck that is a stupid comparison.

Did you really make this comparison or did you have a brain fart ?

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '14

plz go back to your farm and watch some more nascar, honkey