Football game or a commercial fest?
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How long until Citizen's United has a buddy and then we get President PepsiCola? This trend of constant ads absolutely has to be stopped. Ads on roadways distracting drivers, ads flashing everywhere people walk making them feel like they need to buy useless garbage, and ads in our homes constantly. We get absolutely zero peace from ads. It's ridiculous. Society is f'd. Hell, they're using drones to put ads in our night skies.
I’m trying to watch but it’s on commercial so often that I check out and find myself not paying much attention when the game comes back on. It’s annoying.
Even more annoying is at least on sling it's the same 3 freaking commercials repeated over and over.
Let’s be honest. We’ve got the F crew announcing our game and I’m not surprised advertisers aren’t lining up to buy ad time during this game.
I miss Al Purnell.
Didn't you get the message, games are to be much shorter.
It makes me dislike whatever they're advertising.... of course almost every ad was ESPN, which I despise already. 😆
Gotta pay these billion dollar tv deals somehow.
College football simply got too good.
College football simply got too good.
Let's shorten the game with these new clock rules for "safety". The safety of our bank accounts because now we can have 15 more commercial breaks and the game lasts just as long.
Games still take over 3 hours to play but not because of the play. Gotta have that media timeout to line those pockets. I hope they at least revise some of the rule for next year. Between the clock and stoops style we better get to clicking we only going to have about 5 chances to score the entire game .
Games still take over 3 hours to play but not because of the play. Gotta have that media timeout to line those pockets. I hope they at least revise some of the rule for next year. Between the clock and stoops style we better get to clicking we only going to have about 5 chances to score the entire game .
Was saying the same.
Asholes shaved 7 plays per half off of the game, but the games run longer (3.5 hrs) than they used to and all that time saved is filled with commercials. Give us back our football already, you greedy bastages
At this point, the NCAA pretty much have to revise something. The ads will start eating away at revenue as more fans watch replays on YouTube, pirate the streams, or just quit watching altogether. Worst case scenario, I could see enough schools hemorrhaging fans (and therefore revenue) that the sport crashes and burns.
Greed always ends up destroying great things. It’s become a chore to watch sports in general.
Can you imagine going to games and setting through timeouts
One of many reasons I no longer go
One of many reasons I no longer go
Remember this one: UK scores with 8 sec remaining in the half. They go to a bank of commercials. UK kicks of and there is another bank of commercials. Akron takes a knee and we go to the halftime commercials. They are making watching a game unbearable
Yeah, don't understand the whining over this due to the other options.
Wife and I were at the game. It’s way too long for me. Granted I have a bad back, but it really gets the crowd out of the game imo. I sell all but three games per year. That’s about how many games I can sit through. At home, I tape the game and start watching around half time. I can almost get caught up with the live feed.
What’s the other options if you are at the game? Don’t go?
Except every game seems to go to commercial at the same time.
One of the many reasons, if I can't attend, why I tape the game and then watch it. I just make sure I hear nothing about results before I watch.
This is exactly right. Our first three games have averaged 3 hours and 9 minutes. That’s close to 15 minutes shorter than the average NCAA game length last year, so our games have been a bit shorter.
The number of commercials shown is also the same as last year, so I’m not sure what people are complaining about when comparing this season to last season.
I'm good with 3 hrs. Been 3 hrs for my whole life. I was at the Arkansas game that was 7 OTs and would do it all over again even knowing the length and outcome of the game. But I love football
I'm tired of the BS changes to the rules. Takes a lot of the strategy out of it that allows teams to make up ground through them.
I'm tired of the BS changes to the rules. Takes a lot of the strategy out of it that allows teams to make up ground through them.
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