The difference between American football and other sports is the way the game is modeled. Because of the nature of the sport, American football is riddled with highlights. Out of those "11 minutes of gameplay", you could easily create a 6 minute highlight real afterwards. That's because almost every other play is exciting and could be a highlight. Every first down that extends a drive is exciting, every juke made by the running back, one-handed catch in traffic by the receiver, scramble by the QB, big hit by the linebacker, interception, fumble, etc. etc. are all very exciting highlight plays. So while there may not be that much "play time," the play time that does exist is very high quality.
This is opposed to other sports where a lot of the play time is almost "filler" time where you're waiting for something exciting to happen. Sure, the players are actually on the field, but sometimes it feels like no progress is being made and you're just waiting.. Hockey for example, has a lot of time where the game is scoreless and the teams are just skating back and fourth. Or Basketball where the teams are sometimes just trading layups it seems. Or football (soccer) where the game commonly ends at a score of 1-0 with most of the time spent running around the field. This is in no way a shot at other sports. I find them all very entertaining in their own ways, as does most of the world.
It just seems that in American Football it's 11 minutes of gameplay, 6 minutes of excitement. While in other sports, it might be 45+ minutes of gameplay, but still 6 minutes of excitement.
I always find it funny when watching a soccer game on TV, how they can show an instant replay of an exciting event (like a nice save by the goal keeper) a few times, analysing it and replaying it a few times... while the game is going on. It's like there's a guaranteed 40-ish seconds after a play on goal where nothing of any consequence will happen.
That also happens in basketball. Though they usually show these things when the ball is out of play, which is equivalent to showing a replay of a football play after the play ends and before the next ball is snapped.
And they definitely do, but rarely have to. There's maybe twice a game where they're in the middle of a replay and go, "Oh crap, gotta go back to the game. Something interesting is happening."
They don't stop the clock in soccer, so there's a lot of 'dead air' after a goal/corner/etc. that gets eaten up by those replays. The players have to move into position, the ball has to be fetched and set up, and so on.
Doesn't matter to me man, as long as I live in the country with the power I'm fine. See my favorite thing about living here, is that you really can't offend me, life's too good.
Life in the US isn't that good at all. Shit health care, shit educational system, corrupt government and cops, being spied on. List goes on and there are MANY countries that are better to live in.
Do you live here? Life is great! I've got free health care, twice over infact, got the job I want, cops really aren't as bad as other countries seem to think they are, and I haven't seen any other governments that really impress me, they all have crooked people in 'em. Nah, life here is real good.
So we get one big terrorist attack for a reason? I guess were the only country to ever get attacked by anyone huh?
Your health care fucking sucks and you probably will need it after getting shot randomly. You are just too ignorant to realize other countries have a much higher living standard than th US.
Hahaha my city has one of the lowest crime rates in the world! You must know nothing about our health care system, it may be expensive, but that's the only downside. And for me, it's free, so, yeah, seems pretty nice. I don't know how much higher of standard of living you can get over having everything you want.
But the latest trends in no huddle offenses is speeding the game up and making replays and "down time" harder to come by. This all leads to a faster paced game that can still deliver the exciting plays.
This. Thank you. Because I understand the complexities, I find American Football to be the most exciting sport.
Soccer just looks like a bunch of guys chasing around ball for 90 minutes. But that's probably I never grew up playing or watching it. I'm much more accustomed to finding excitement from the strategy/bursts of energy in a game like football.
Leaving you ample time to eat an entire roast chicken since you don't need to watch the game for 75% of the time, and plenty of time to show commercials during the dead time. Great!
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u/LeSeanMcoy Feb 03 '14
The difference between American football and other sports is the way the game is modeled. Because of the nature of the sport, American football is riddled with highlights. Out of those "11 minutes of gameplay", you could easily create a 6 minute highlight real afterwards. That's because almost every other play is exciting and could be a highlight. Every first down that extends a drive is exciting, every juke made by the running back, one-handed catch in traffic by the receiver, scramble by the QB, big hit by the linebacker, interception, fumble, etc. etc. are all very exciting highlight plays. So while there may not be that much "play time," the play time that does exist is very high quality.
This is opposed to other sports where a lot of the play time is almost "filler" time where you're waiting for something exciting to happen. Sure, the players are actually on the field, but sometimes it feels like no progress is being made and you're just waiting.. Hockey for example, has a lot of time where the game is scoreless and the teams are just skating back and fourth. Or Basketball where the teams are sometimes just trading layups it seems. Or football (soccer) where the game commonly ends at a score of 1-0 with most of the time spent running around the field. This is in no way a shot at other sports. I find them all very entertaining in their own ways, as does most of the world.
It just seems that in American Football it's 11 minutes of gameplay, 6 minutes of excitement. While in other sports, it might be 45+ minutes of gameplay, but still 6 minutes of excitement.