Richard Sandomir, in today’s New York Times, has an article that explains part of the reason football games are becoming completely unwatchable. The big LSU-Oklahoma matchup Sunday night lasted for 3 hours and 43 minutes, of which — get this! — a total of 16 minutes and 28 seconds was actual live football action. The NFL’s worse; the Indianapolis-Denver playoff game had all of 12 minutes of live action. 12 minutes!!! It’s pathetic, really. I feel sorriest for the folks up in the stands — at least those of us at home can use our TIVOs to get at the good stuff (and/or switch stations to something decent, like a good, 90-minutes-of-action soccer game).
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