Thought but Always Wondered

Have you ever thought something but always wondered what the real truth was?

I did.

About football. People say that football (American) is a game of action. So how much action is there? I have always suspected that there is not much.

Kevin DeYoung has the evidence that confirmed it for me.

Football is a game with very little action. Eleven minutes over the course of three and one-half hours. That’s right … and that’s worse than TV. For a half-hour of TV, you at least get 22 minutes of action (pathetic and contrived as it may be). For three and a half hours of football, you get 11 minutes.

The other three hours and twenty-one minutes are filled with inanities of commentators and replays of what just happened and endless commercials.

Compare that to soccer (the world’s football).

Almost invariably, soccer is mocked by people for being slow and uninteresting. It’s always Americans who do this. It’s usually the same Americans who spend three and half hours lounging on the lazy boy for eleven minutes of action.

In soccer, in 90 minutes of play, you get … wait for it … 90 minutes of play. And if, for some reason, actual play stops do to injury (or playacting) they add it on to the game. So a 90 minute game might last for 94 minutes or 96 minutes of actual time with a short halftime that won’t involve old men acting like idiots in some frat house with each other.

In football, a guy runs twenty yards and comes out for a breather because the dead time in between plays isn't enough. In soccer a guy runs sixty yards and then does it again. 

In terms of skill, football just can’t compare with soccer. 

In terms of excitement, football just can’t compare with soccer.

It terms of action, football just can’t compare with soccer.

So watch a soccer game. You will get more action, and and extra hour and a half in your day to do something else profitable.