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>> Football has a lot of ads because there is a lot of stopping during the game for time outs and such. I'd always assumed the causation arrow was in the oppos
by lovemenot 9y ago
>> Football has a lot of ads because there is a lot of stopping during the game for time outs and such.
I'd always assumed the causation arrow was in the opposite direction. Or at least a big reason a sport is popular in the US is its ad-friendliness.
The other kind of football is flowing and therefore less attractive to ad supported TV networks.
- cafard 9y agoTV has certainly increased the number of timeouts in college and professional football. However, the whole business of spotting the ball, lining the teams up, maybe huddling, means that American football has never been flowing to the degree that the other football is.
- falcolas 9y agoThere are a few other reasons that American football is popular: The action is short and violent, which makes it both exciting and yet easy to watch while chatting with your friends. You can't miss a critical shift in the play because you had to look away for a few moments. Most men (and many women) played it as children and teenagers, and so have a strong sense of nostalgia for it. Many small towns pretty much only had football as entertainment for many years prior to the internet - it has momentum among the older audiences. Football represents the epitome of the American dream. Everyone "knows" someone who has "made it" to the NFL, no matter how tenuous the connection may be. It reinforces the idea that anyone can make it if they just work hard enough.