From The Big Picture:
Football and the 30 Second Advance Button
I like watching football, but I cannot stand the way the games are televised.
On the clock, you have 60 minutes per game, of which there is maybe thirty 14 minutes of actual football played. In real time, that 14 minutes occurs over the course of 3 and ½ hours.
Who the hell has time for that 15 weeks a year, plus the playoffs?
Barry Ritholtz is talking about the frustration of trying to find the Football nuggets within the Televised-Pro-Football slag heap. With the fast advance functionality of Tivo and the the right strategy, one can watch a whole game in under an hour and still see the last 10 minutes live.
Accepting that therearelimits, limits of attention and time-on-earth for one thing, the TIVO (or something like it) is a necessity. It makes it possible to watch less TV and still pass the water-cooler sanity-test-questions such as Who is the President of the Land? and Who do you think will win the playoffs?
Unfortunately, there is no TIVO for the 3space physical world….yet. So, all the stadium-goers are in for the 3 or 4 hour duration. When conjuring new football (Pro or College) into existence, is it worth considering the 100,000 or so person hours that will be dedicated to each well-attended game?
Opportunity cost?
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