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I don’t get it either. Especially football. There’s like on average something like 11 minutes of actual gameplay and it takes like 3 hours to watch the whole ga

I don’t get it either. Especially football. There’s like on average something like 11 minutes of actual gameplay and it takes like 3 hours to watch the whole game.

HDThoreaun 3y ago
Its not like nothing is happening during the dead ball time in football. It's easily the sport where coaching is most important. Baseball by comparison has very little down time, but the game is so boring that the entire game can feel like down time.
- SirMaster 3y ago
  How about comparing american football, to the football of the rest of the world?
pests 3y ago
In chess, the two players only are touching the pieces for maybe 100 seconds a game that can go on for hours too. So what makes chess fun to watch? It's what happens between those periods of movements. Football is a game of strategy played out by two coaches. The players are their pawns. Half the game is coming up with a plan and strategy. The other half is trying to perform that strategy. You are only paying attention to the latter half. For jocks and athletic people the latter half is interesting; I'm surprised the strategy and planning aspect isn't more acknowledged and appreciated by us nerdy types. Maybe there is a reason most of the game is not live play.
- SirMaster 3y ago
  I don't find watching chess entertaining in the slightest either, so that example doesn't really help me. >It's what happens between those periods of movements. Commercials? Players standing around on the field, or walking to a huddle or walking back to the line?
  - pests 3y ago
    I feel ya, I felt the same way too. I find chess a bit boring too. Commercials do suck. They do hide some of what is going on in the sidelines and a lot are forced for the TV netwroks. But players standing around the field or walking around because they have nothing to do - the game is not in their court right now. The coaches are making the next play. That is the game. Its coach vs coach. The players don't do anything without the coach directing them. Maybe it would help more if the cameras zoomed into the coaches in a heated battle of what play to run next and the game was advertised or listed as coach v. coach that this match up would be more obvious. It's like the Madden game. The player avatars on the screen are just robots, going through the motions. The actual brains or interesting action is going on with whoever holds the controller. The plays or lines or formations they run and who they put in the game, etc.
- manquer 3y ago
  Classical chess is a terrible game to watch , one of the reasons it doesn’t get the money other sports do . A live stream for the World Cup deciding match may get few thousand watchers at best . Pee wee league football gets more probably . It is not because chess takes 7 hours, because vast majority of the games are boring, take known lines and end up in an early draw. I watch test cricket and I find classical chess boring to watch despite having played semi-professionally. Test cricket goes on for 5 days, baseball goes on hours both are incredibly technical , as is f1 or golf. I rather watch test cricket than nfl , there is just unconsumable levels of ad to content ratio It is not because it is long with lot of breaks in the middle of the action to be strategic that it is not as interesting . There is a reason why NFL gets no traction outside the USA , all other sports I listed have global audiences even baseball
- jjav 3y ago
  > In chess, the two players only are touching the pieces for maybe 100 seconds a game that can go on for hours too. > So what makes chess fun to watch? Trick question? Chess isn't exactly a fun spectator sport (enjoy playing it though).

I don’t get it either. Especially football. There’s like on average something like 11 minutes of actual gameplay and it takes like 3 hours to watch the whole game.

HDThoreaun 3y ago

Its not like nothing is happening during the dead ball time in football. It's easily the sport where coaching is most important. Baseball by comparison has very little down time, but the game is so boring that the entire game can feel like down time.

SirMaster 3y ago
How about comparing american football, to the football of the rest of the world?

pests 3y ago

In chess, the two players only are touching the pieces for maybe 100 seconds a game that can go on for hours too. So what makes chess fun to watch? It's what happens between those periods of movements. Football is a game of strategy played out by two coaches. The players are their pawns. Half the game is coming up with a plan and strategy. The other half is trying to perform that strategy. You are only paying attention to the latter half. For jocks and athletic people the latter half is interesting; I'm surprised the strategy and planning aspect isn't more acknowledged and appreciated by us nerdy types. Maybe there is a reason most of the game is not live play.

SirMaster 3y ago
I don't find watching chess entertaining in the slightest either, so that example doesn't really help me. >It's what happens between those periods of movements. Commercials? Players standing around on the field, or walking to a huddle or walking back to the line?
- pests 3y ago
  I feel ya, I felt the same way too. I find chess a bit boring too. Commercials do suck. They do hide some of what is going on in the sidelines and a lot are forced for the TV netwroks. But players standing around the field or walking around because they have nothing to do - the game is not in their court right now. The coaches are making the next play. That is the game. Its coach vs coach. The players don't do anything without the coach directing them. Maybe it would help more if the cameras zoomed into the coaches in a heated battle of what play to run next and the game was advertised or listed as coach v. coach that this match up would be more obvious. It's like the Madden game. The player avatars on the screen are just robots, going through the motions. The actual brains or interesting action is going on with whoever holds the controller. The plays or lines or formations they run and who they put in the game, etc.
manquer 3y ago
Classical chess is a terrible game to watch , one of the reasons it doesn’t get the money other sports do . A live stream for the World Cup deciding match may get few thousand watchers at best . Pee wee league football gets more probably . It is not because chess takes 7 hours, because vast majority of the games are boring, take known lines and end up in an early draw. I watch test cricket and I find classical chess boring to watch despite having played semi-professionally. Test cricket goes on for 5 days, baseball goes on hours both are incredibly technical , as is f1 or golf. I rather watch test cricket than nfl , there is just unconsumable levels of ad to content ratio It is not because it is long with lot of breaks in the middle of the action to be strategic that it is not as interesting . There is a reason why NFL gets no traction outside the USA , all other sports I listed have global audiences even baseball
jjav 3y ago
> In chess, the two players only are touching the pieces for maybe 100 seconds a game that can go on for hours too. > So what makes chess fun to watch? Trick question? Chess isn't exactly a fun spectator sport (enjoy playing it though).