American Football is a complicated sport, filled with yellow flags, five-yard penalties, and seemingly random scoring by sevens. But perhaps the most confounding aspect of America’s current favorite pastime is how long the game takes. Technically,…
American Football is a complicated sport, filled with yellow flags, five-yard penalties, and seemingly random scoring by sevens. But perhaps the most confounding aspect of America’s current favorite pastime is how long the game takes. Technically, football games are an hour, thirty minutes shorter than the soccer versions of football games. And yet, somehow, soccer games only take 90 minutes plus a varying amount of stoppage times at the end of each half. Football games go on for hours. Hours! How long is the 2019 Super Bowl? God only knows. Bring snacks. Lots of snacks.
I may sound like I’m kidding, but I’m not. Most football games on a regular Sunday start at either 1 p.m. or 4 p.m. ET. Each of these games runs technically four 15 minute quarters, 60 minutes. And yet, how many times has one turned on the 4 p.
