> Well, maybe not. The NFL manages to spread 60 minutes of clock time across three hours in a typical game. What with time running off the clock between plays a

> Well, maybe not. The NFL manages to spread 60 minutes of clock time across three hours in a typical game. What with time running off the clock between plays and the typical play lasting about four seconds, an average game ends up with only 11 minutes of action. Setting aside the fact that this entire paragraph was irrelevant to the point of the article, it always irritates me as a (college) football fan when people cite this statistic. There are far more than 60 minutes of "action" from kickoff to the final play. Most of American football is actually about strategy - if you're completely ignoring what happens between when the play is whistled dead and when the ball is snapped next, you're going to be very confused, and I wouldn't be surprised if you didn't enjoy it. But we can all agree that TV timeouts suck when you're in the stadium.