Comments on: A Breakdown of Televised (American) Football Broadcasts

By: Fast Online news

Fast Online news — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 23:33:31 +0000

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By: Count da Time

Count da Time — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 13:58:52 +0000

The surface numbers don’t make sense; in a typical 3 hour football broadcast there are 60 minutes of field play, (guaranteed). TV shows all original plays, so there is 1 hour out of 3 total. If you add the real action minutes to the football illustration above, the majority of time is on the field, yes? (I do agree that TV timeouts are a distraction if you attend a live game).

By: Rock

Rock — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:59:01 +0000

I just can a little cigarette in the sun and a bit more of a thing.

My thing is that in New Zealand (and I am so sure this is the case for other English speaking countries), our media diet is largely produced in the USA.

I’m interested in exporting this for an us-the-oppressed point of view.

Using exactly the same lens that I use to interrogate the heterosexual and nuclear-family bias in the media (which as a gay man posits my experience in the us-the-oppressed category).

By: Rock

Rock — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:49:08 +0000

I dunno, maybe I don’t have anything better to do. Its just seems that a blog that will (in an interesting way) pick apart sexism, homophobia, racism and issue of class, would be able to at least acknowledge a USA-centric slant.

Look – I know I moan on about this endlessly, I actually really like this blog and visit frequently.

I get that this Blog and it’s authors are located in the USA.

Just every now and again I want to point out what I perceive – a bias toward the USA.

By: humperdink

humperdink — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 06:52:13 +0000

I haven’t watched much american football, so I can’t agree or disagree on the definitions of “real action” in that particular game, but I have noticed the low ‘play’ to ‘commentary’ ratio. Obviously I’m naïve to the finer points of the game, but it seems like the ball’s in play for all of 10 seconds before the 5 minutes of slow-mo recaps and angry coach montages start. Compared to sports like rugby or soccer it seems (to this outsider) incredibly frustrating and tiresome to watch.

Though I wouldn’t be surprised if during a 5 day cricket test there was only 11 minutes of real action.

By: karinova

karinova — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 06:22:39 +0000

Yeah, I got hung up on the graphic too (even though I was telling myself, “move on, it doesn’t matter!”). Not only do the football slices seem off, it really bugs me that the photo sizes don’t correspond to the data. The sizes are apparently random, and it’s really distracting.

By: Soxinc

Soxinc — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 04:31:08 +0000

But even baseball is stretched artificially to allow for more commercials. Players have complained about the long, mandatory ad break between innings, for instance.

By: Ginsu Shark

Ginsu Shark — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 01:24:41 +0000

Not from a viewer’s standpoint, they aren’t…

By: Quijotesca

Quijotesca — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:06:01 +0000

Oh, it’s that guy again. Wonderful. Doesn’t he have anything better to do?

By: Missives from Marx

Missives from Marx — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 23:03:08 +0000

The phrase “real action” is part of the text of the video—see around 35 seconds.

By: Gwen

Gwen — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 23:00:24 +0000

The only change to the post was that I went back and added (American) to the title and specified that I meant American football, not soccer, in the text. I never used the term “real” action.

By: Scigirl

Scigirl — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 21:36:20 +0000

Not that I see.

By: Scigirl

Scigirl — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 21:35:22 +0000

I don’t see “real action” in the article. I thought perhaps it had been there but was edited out, but Soc. Images is pretty good about using strikethroughs to show when they’ve changed something. So I don’t think they ever used that term.

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 21:33:52 +0000

This site is operated in the US. I’m not certain why it would be necessary for it to discuss matters relating to other countries too often.