Top American Sportswriter Explains Why Baseball is Better than Football

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According to a 2010 Wall Street Journal report, the average NFL game lasts 3 hours, 12 minutes. Game time is broken down thusly: Game action, 11 minutes. Replays, 15 minutes. Shots of the coach, crowd, and cheerleaders, 36 minutes. Commercials, 63 minutes. Shots of players standing around, 67 minutes.

 - Patrick Daugherty, San Diego Reader

Also, in football you never see the players scratching their testicles, which is a feature, not a bug.