I have a unique idea for the speeding up of sporting games.
At the present time, the NCAA is studying ways to speed up the pace of play. I’ve heard that they want to restart the clock after incomplete passes, among other ideas. They are talking this idea will eliminate Seven plays and this idea will eliminate eleven plays. News flash, we are going to the game to see the plays.
At the present time a 40 minute College basketball game has 40 minutes of in game commercials. Every four minutes we have a four minute break for commercials. We now lose the first eight minutes of the second game of the night on ESPN to commercials, which last year were three minute breaks for Commercial. At the Gonzaga game I was able to go get a coke twice during the game, without missing a play.
In College Football the breaks for commercials is even greater. Everytime there is a change of possession there is a four minute break for Commercials at least 16 times during the live action, not counting halftime. In a 60 minute game we now have 80 minutes of commercials and 20 minutes for a halftime show. In a 3 hour 15 minute game there are over 100 minutes of commercial and halftime show. When I was young halftimes we’re 15 minutes. A high school game last about two hours fifteen minutes even though the game is only 12 minutes shorter.
We are going to the games to see plays, not commercial timeouts. Commercials can be run during halftime, as few watch the halftime show anyway. I don’t care what happened in the Northwestern- Minnesota game. If I cared I have the Big Ten.Network on my TV.
At the present time, the NCAA is studying ways to speed up the pace of play. I’ve heard that they want to restart the clock after incomplete passes, among other ideas. They are talking this idea will eliminate Seven plays and this idea will eliminate eleven plays. News flash, we are going to the game to see the plays.
At the present time a 40 minute College basketball game has 40 minutes of in game commercials. Every four minutes we have a four minute break for commercials. We now lose the first eight minutes of the second game of the night on ESPN to commercials, which last year were three minute breaks for Commercial. At the Gonzaga game I was able to go get a coke twice during the game, without missing a play.
In College Football the breaks for commercials is even greater. Everytime there is a change of possession there is a four minute break for Commercials at least 16 times during the live action, not counting halftime. In a 60 minute game we now have 80 minutes of commercials and 20 minutes for a halftime show. In a 3 hour 15 minute game there are over 100 minutes of commercial and halftime show. When I was young halftimes we’re 15 minutes. A high school game last about two hours fifteen minutes even though the game is only 12 minutes shorter.
We are going to the games to see plays, not commercial timeouts. Commercials can be run during halftime, as few watch the halftime show anyway. I don’t care what happened in the Northwestern- Minnesota game. If I cared I have the Big Ten.Network on my TV.
