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Thoughts? Would football be a better watching experience without the commercials (maybe Super Bowl excluded, but focusing on college football here).
GTP Refugees
Let all the Bulldog faithful rally behind the men who now wear the red and black with two words, two simple words which express the sentiments of the entire Bulldog Nation: Auburn Sucks.
If you think it is bad now, wait until all of the streaming rights are bought up by the gambling services and they are constantly pushing you to bet in-game.
Yes, it would be better. There’s no reason that a game that has 80 minutes of clock time (4 15:00 quarters plus a 20:00 halftime) should take 3:15 to play especially with the current clock rules. All they did was replace in-game stoppages with TV timeouts.
All of this still wouldn’t make me make soccer on TV. For my viewing pleasure, the NHL is a hell of a lot more entertaining than watching soccer.
Heck, it’s gotten where I record the games and just carry on with my daily routine until it’s for enough in that I can fast-forward through the commercials. Even the Georgia games. I guess I’ve gotten that ADD in my older age. And Fowler, with his dramatics when someone scores or makes a big play is so friggin over the top “FEPO” (For Entertainment Purposes Only). If it was Munson, it’s understood, he loved the dawgs and really was excited. Fowler’s is just FEPO!
High school football games are the last remnant of uninterrupted, commercial free games that are normally completed in less than 2 hours.
However that is all changing as private equity is coming to youth/high school sports in a bigger way.
Travel youth sports in the US have invited those PEquity sharks to a feeding frenzy.
At least in Europe, they just ship your kids off to academies… which makes it an equal playing field for low to middle income families.
I pray for commercial breaks to save me from suffering Bobo’s screen pass play calling.
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My enjoyment of CFB has slowly eroded over the last few seasons with the many changes – long games and commercials being just a small fraction turning me off to the product. At the same time, our family LOVES our Sat/Sun morning Premier League matches over breakfast and coffee. At this rate in the coming years, I’ll be more disappointed not being able to watch the 7:30am Premier League match than whatever big CFB game will be on later that day. I NEVER saw this coming for myself.
Watching the commercials at home is probably much better than when the 3-minute man enters the field with his countdown clock, and you have to sit there and listen to blaring rap.
I mean, they literally added the 2-minute timeout to add more commercials.