HA!

[sombrefan]

Soccer more exciting that American football say US researchers.

I think this is because they don't stop for breaks every 5 minutes and the game takes less than a day to play.

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[wondersheep.livejournal.com]

I could have told you that.

[rleyser.livejournal.com]

Let me see if I have this right...the same people who unlocked the secret of the atom are now researching sports?!?

[grnarmadillo.livejournal.com]

I would have argued that at least the audience is privvy to how much time is left in the game in our version, but they've found several ways to louse that up these days, adding and subtracting time from the clock for various reasons I don't fully comprehend. (I think most of my antipathy for soccer comes from having spent a few years of high school practicing every afternoon so I could watch games in a jersey and cleats from the bench.)

[swersfreakshow.livejournal.com]

it's a scientific fact that the last 2 minutes of a football game are equivalent to half and hour.

okay, maybe it's not a scientific fact. It just feels like that.

[grnarmadillo.livejournal.com]

I meant game time, rather than real time, since you're right that football (and basketball) clocks tend not to accurately reflect the amount of real time it will take for the game to end. Soccer has this annoying timekeeping rule where the stopwatch in the referee's back pocket is the official time. As a result, the time displayed on the stadium clock/TV may be grossly inaccurate - all we viewers are entitled to know is that the whistle will come sometime after the TV clock says 45 minutes have elapsed.

[mazzidly.livejournal.com]

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