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RE: The Rise of the Four Hour Football Game
(09-29-2015 12:45 PM)bubbapt Wrote: (09-29-2015 12:37 PM)RCM1029 Wrote: (09-29-2015 12:31 PM)bubbapt Wrote: (09-29-2015 12:09 PM)Mimi Wrote: If there are an average of 40 total first downs a game that require brief clock stoppages before resetting the chains...those are about 15 seconds each. So that only adds about 10 minutes a game.
Thats 10 minutes of game time. You have to multiply it by three to get the actual time saved, which would be about 30 minutes.
I suck at math, so please excuse this question: why do you have to multiply it by three?
An NFL game lasts for 60 minutes of game time, but three hours of actual time. If you are stopping the clock when you could be running it, you not only add ten minutes of game time, but also more stoppages, commercials, replays, and all the things that make a football game last three times as long as the game clock shows.
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The Rise of the Four Hour Football Game
