Any chance we will be seeing these kinds of celebration s anytime soon? (4 Viewers)

[bawtryneal]

Through my job I get offered free tickets for USC Trojans which is the biggest American football team in Los Angeles. Despite that Trojans is just a college team, it is bigger than the NFL teams in LA, the Rams and Chargers. I went to one Trojans game with my son and we left in the third quarter because it was so dull. I don't bother taking up the offers of free tickets because I am not going to waste 4 hours of my time waiting for 10 minutes action. The Wall Street Journal has calculated that the average NFL game includes only 11 minutes of actual playing time.

I do watch Rams and Trojans games on TV but only with a fast forward button so as to skip the 3 hours and 50 minutes where everyone is standing around scratching their arse. The time wasting in NFL is also a huge bug bear with me and is far worse than real football.

The Distance Run Per Game in Various Sports

Just read this post so apologies you have been to a game
As posted by others, all about opinions !

 

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[Otis]

Just read this post so apologies you have been to a game
As posted by others, all about opinions !

Tis indeed. For me, if you watch, so many games go right down to the wire and that is so exciting just in itself.

Always makes me laugh though when some people say that the game can last as much as 4 hours and that it's too long, but then say they like test cricket matches and those matches are 5 DAYS long.

 

[itsabuzzard]

Interesting piece in yesterday's Times sports section by Daniel Finkelstein. Apparently, the ball is dead, on average, for 38.5 minutes during the 90 minutes.

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[covhead1]

Sorry but this is one of the saddest posts I've read on this forum.

 

[Otis]

Interesting piece in yesterday's Times sports section by Daniel Finkelstein. Apparently, the ball is dead, on average, for 38.5 minutes during the 90 minutes.

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Yes, it's really sad, but they CAN do something about it.

 

[Liquid Gold]

It’s weird that cheating and bending the tules to win Has Just become accepted as the norm in football. All this stuff should have had rule changes applied when first appearing and we’d have never got here. I suppose it’s due to it being an international sport with clubs from different nations and confederations playing one another, you have to implement the change evrywhere. Doesn’t help that the overall governing body is as corrupt as it gets.

 

[Otis]

It’s weird that cheating and bending the tules to win Has Just become accepted as the norm in football. All this stuff should have had rule changes applied when first appearing and we’d have never got here. I suppose it’s due to it being an international sport with clubs from different nations and confederations playing one another, you have to implement the change evrywhere. Doesn’t help that the overall governing body is as corrupt as it gets.

Yep. That's it in a nutshell. The NFL is it's own governing body and there is no higher power they have to wait upon for changes.

 

[wingy]

It’s weird that cheating and bending the tules to win Has Just become accepted as the norm in football. All this stuff should have had rule changes applied when first appearing and we’d have never got here. I suppose it’s due to it being an international sport with clubs from different nations and confederations playing one another, you have to implement the change evrywhere. Doesn’t help that the overall governing body is as corrupt as it gets.

It really doesn't help much that just about every ex player /pundit endorses, even encourage all of it.

 

[Nick]

It really doesn't help much that just about every ex player /pundit endorses, even encourage all of it.

It all comes down with being able to get away with it, start showing cards for time wasting sooner and it will be phased out.

Will have to see how diving changes (if) with the risk of action afterwards with video evidence.

 

[Otis]

It really doesn't help much that just about every ex player /pundit endorses, even encourage all of it.

Robbie Savage especially annoys me. He calls cynical chop downs as good bad tackles and worth the price of the yellow.

Anything cynical and deliberate should be a straight red.

 

[ccfcway]

It all comes down with being able to get away with it, start showing cards for time wasting sooner and it will be phased out. .

agreed. any talking to ref without him asking to speak to the player should be an automatic yellow

 

[ccfcway]

southampton booking 10 seconds ago

commentator "it was one he would be happy to give away"

 

[Liquid Gold]

3 game ban and 2 weeks wages fine that goes into grassroots football for any obvious cheating.

 

[Adge]

southampton booking 10 seconds ago

commentator "it was one he would be happy to give away"

The pundits are the worst when it comes to knowledge around the laws of the game. Just because they played the game doesn't mean they are the experts. Was listening to 606 last night when Jason Mohammed was talking about Mourinho getting sent off to the stands and receiving a red card. Team officials/coaches/managers don't receive red cards-only players receive red and yellow cards. :banghead:

 

[singers_pore]

Tis indeed. For me, if you watch, so many games go right down to the wire and that is so exciting just in itself.

Agree on that. I do watch games on TV but, as mentioned before, I fast forward through all the bits where nothing is happening (i.e., 3 hours 50 minutes out of 4 hours). You still get to see all the downs, the kicks, and touchdowns, so that 10 minutes is still genuinely exciting, particularly if you follow a team (in my case USC & Rams).

 

[AngryAnt]

I love the NFL, I've only gotten into it in the past few years but would love to go to a live game (and the build up).
Football when played properly, is the far superior sport, however as others have said, the NFL is exciting and I even forced Tonylinc on here to watch a game last year (he'll never admit it but he was enjoying watching it). The last 10mins however are the most exciting, especially when its a close game.

90% of footballs problems are easily solved by video replays and stopping the clock. Nearly every other game stops the time when the ball goes dead, I cant understand why ours doesnt.

 

[Otis]

I love the NFL, I've only gotten into it in the past few years but would love to go to a live game (and the build up).
Football when played properly, is the far superior sport, however as others have said, the NFL is exciting and I even forced Tonylinc on here to watch a game last year (he'll never admit it but he was enjoying watching it). The last 10mins however are the most exciting, especially when its a close game.

90% of footballs problems are easily solved by video replays and stopping the clock. Nearly every other game stops the time when the ball goes dead, I cant understand why ours doesnt.

Yep. Easily rectifiable and you know that if they did a fans nationwide survey there would be about 90% of fans would would say they find the game really frustrating because of all shirt pulling, feigning, cheating and timewasting.

The NFL is a stop start game. It's very tactical. Football is supposed to 45 minutes of football and then a break. It's ridiculous the amount of time lost where there isn't actually any play.

Sort the bugger out and give us back the beautiful game you numpties!!!