The NFL: an Ad Delivery Vehicle

Some fun facts that prove we are all part of a Pavlov dog experiment.....

Ave. length of NFL game...........................3 hours 12 minutes

Actual action.............................................11 minutes
Average length of play...............................4 seconds
Replays shown on TV...............................17 minutes

# of ads/game (reg. season)....................100
# of ads/game (playoffs)..........................112
# of commercial breaks/game..................20
Ad duration/game.......................approx. 1 hour

In summation:
For at home viewers...........11 minutes of action + 17 minutes of replay + 60 minutes ads = 1 hour 28 minutes of time accounted for. This leaves a balance of 1 hour 40 minutes of watching filler....aka....huddles, ref meetings, mediots, sideline shots, jovial halftime antics performed by media darlings, etc
For in stadium viewers......all of the above plus waiting for commercial breaks to end

Let's list what leads networks into commercial breaks
KO
Punt
TD
FG
EP
Turn over
Injury
Time out
Ref Review******* let's return to this one soon
Change in possession
TV time out
Half time
etc

To me and many more, the length of games has become a problem especially because the time extension has not been a result of extra action....but instead referee reviews.
And what is the result of more referee reviews.....MORE COMMERCIALS.
So the question needs to be asked....Does Roger and his henchmen...plus the Full 32....give two craps regarding these longer games?
More commercials = more money. Longer time in stadiums=more money.

We are Pavlov's dog...conditioned to salivate and wait for our masters to feed us football.

By the way.........Who's playing on Turkey Day....I need to set my line up.

An average NFL game: more than 100 commercials and just 11 minutes of play
The NFL exists mainly as an ad delivery vehicle.

Posters tell me otherwise but from my couch there seem to be more and more commercials particularly during the "tournament".. and less and less football.

This is why I now DVR games and start watching around 90 min after kickoff. Can watch a whole game in under an hour. Faster if no one's doing no-huddle (if teams are going at normal pace hitting 30sec skip when the whistle blows takes you do just before the snap of the next play. But if no huddle, the skip takes you into the next play so when teams go no huddle I'm stuck watching the dead time between plays).

DarrylS said:

Posters tell me otherwise but from my couch there seem to be more and more commercials particularly during the "tournament".. and less and less football.

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Monday night seemed to be worse than usual. Patriots punted the ball and the Bills fair caught it with :03 seconds left in the 1st quarter and what does ESPN go to commercial, of course the Bills run 1 play and it's off to commercial land again. 1 play in 6 minutes of real time including 5 minutes of commercials.

QuantumMechanic said:

This is why I now DVR games and start watching around 90 min after kickoff. Can watch a whole game in under an hour. Faster if no one's doing no-huddle (if teams are going at normal pace hitting 30sec skip when the whistle blows takes you do just before the snap of the next play. But if no huddle, the skip takes you into the next play so when teams go no huddle I'm stuck watching the dead time between plays).

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Back home, I got into that habit as well. Actually, what I would do is wait 45-60 minutes with the game DVRed and then start. If I caught up, it'd be around the middle to the end of the 4th quarter. That way, I was far less susceptible to spoilers.

I watched some commercials and they went to Football during the breaks.