Another stat not fully appreciated: I was at the game and kept track of the TV timeout clock. It was used 17 times for a total of 44.5 minutes! (This does not include 30-second timeouts or halftime.) And they don't start the clock for a good 10 seconds after a timeout is called. How much more time would it have been on ESPN? TV networks …
Another stat not fully appreciated: I was at the game and kept track of the TV timeout clock. It was used 17 times for a total of 44.5 minutes! (This does not include 30-second timeouts or halftime.) And they don't start the clock for a good 10 seconds after a timeout is called. How much more time would it have been on ESPN? TV networks are making games more and more unwatchable. Sooner or later the fact that fewer and fewer people have the patience to attend games will translate into fewer and fewer people watching on TV. When will the networks wake up to the fact that they are bludgeoning their own business model?
We counted too and had sixteen but I thought we missed one. It's ridiculous especially when there's less than two minutes of play between commercials. One of those things in sports that really makes me yearn for "the good old days."
Yes, same if not worse for Auburn. I recall an article referencing the crowd at Wembley complaining about "all of the standing around" when the NFL came to London for the first time.
And the irony is the commercials are supposed to pay for the games, but going forward, Cal won't be in line for much of that cash for ~8 years...
Thanks for sharing this information. I'm going to record some of the games and begin watching them after halftime so that I can just fast forward the commercials since I'll never get that time back otherwise.
That's what I do with road games. I record and start watching after about an hour and a quarter. I usually catch up to the game late in the fourth quarter (I also fast forward through commercials and replays of opposing team TDs). I recommend it.
Thank you for pointing this out. It makes these kinds of defensive games so much more unbearable to sit still for and watch, be it at the stadium or on the couch. Damn.
Another stat not fully appreciated: I was at the game and kept track of the TV timeout clock. It was used 17 times for a total of 44.5 minutes! (This does not include 30-second timeouts or halftime.) And they don't start the clock for a good 10 seconds after a timeout is called. How much more time would it have been on ESPN? TV networks are making games more and more unwatchable. Sooner or later the fact that fewer and fewer people have the patience to attend games will translate into fewer and fewer people watching on TV. When will the networks wake up to the fact that they are bludgeoning their own business model?
We counted too and had sixteen but I thought we missed one. It's ridiculous especially when there's less than two minutes of play between commercials. One of those things in sports that really makes me yearn for "the good old days."
Yes, same if not worse for Auburn. I recall an article referencing the crowd at Wembley complaining about "all of the standing around" when the NFL came to London for the first time.
And the irony is the commercials are supposed to pay for the games, but going forward, Cal won't be in line for much of that cash for ~8 years...
Thanks for sharing this information. I'm going to record some of the games and begin watching them after halftime so that I can just fast forward the commercials since I'll never get that time back otherwise.
That's what I do with road games. I record and start watching after about an hour and a quarter. I usually catch up to the game late in the fourth quarter (I also fast forward through commercials and replays of opposing team TDs). I recommend it.
Boy, sure glad NCAA sped up games, apparently, just so more commercials could get squeezed in.
Hypnotic suggestion in background of all college games:
"Media does not control college sports....media does not control college sports..." Et cetera.
Thank you for pointing this out. It makes these kinds of defensive games so much more unbearable to sit still for and watch, be it at the stadium or on the couch. Damn.