And laughing at.
You’re right, baseball is another story. It’s shorter.
I heard on the radio this morning that the local pregame show for the Auburn-Alabama game over the weekend started at 2:00 a.m. Saturday.
For cripes sake people, aruvqan came in here to complain and blow off steam from the stress of caring for a parent with Alzheimers.
Some of you gave some suggestions on how to deal with the issue and some of you tried to comfort her. Good for all of you.
Some of you chide her, or give her unwanted lessons in football and the realities of TV programming. To all of you - WTF? Either help her or commiserate with her, but don’t try to make her feel like an idiot. Try to understand what this is about or stay the hell out of it. :mad:
If you lived in Alabama, you’d be bored enough to watch that shit too.
Oh geez, I don’t want to fuck with your stupid little world view here, but here goes: women can like, watch, and obsess about sports too. I sure as fuck do.
I hate to fuck with your smug self satisfaction but nothing you said contradicts anything I said, much less any “worldview” you might have extrapolated from that.
We ARE helping her. By showing her that there’s no sense obsessing over things you cannot control, particularly when the thing you want is what everyone else does NOT want.
I’ll leave the “this is the pit, not sunshine and daisies happy hugs hour” for someone else.
Thanks.
Everybody else can fuck off.
Eat shit! This is the pit and we can say whatever the fuck we want (within the rules). So, if I want to say I don’t give two shits about some dodgey old bitty who can’t keep track of what the fuck she was told 15 minutes ago, then I am free to do so.
If you don’t want to read that shit, then don’t post in the fucking pit.
Real nice. I don’t care what you say to me but to attack an alzheimer’s patient? It may not be against pit rules but it’s certainly against the rules of decent humanity.
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/forumdisplay.php?f=4
Might be more suited for you.
But that’s false. There are plenty of people who don’t like the current method of not scheduling enough time for the game. Some of them are sports fans, some aren’t. Even among the sports fans, some would prefer that the networks have a realistic schedule.
Average time is 2:51, and they point out how Yankee games, and especially Yankee/Red Sox games take longer because of the number of pitches taken. As a Yankee fan, I will admit my view of baseball times is skewed. While I can’t find official stats from the NFL, other sites have said that televised football games run about 3:06, about 15 minutes longer than the average baseball game. Note that nationally televised baseball games take longer than the average as they have longer commercial breaks, and just about every football game is network broadcast.
Of note, while looking for the average football time, I saw mentions that average play time (when ball is in play) in a football game is between 11 and 15 minutes.
Note that college football games take an extra hour because… well, who knows? Partly because the clock stops on first downs.
shoot yourself. Blame the diseased old woman and Not the bullshit marketing juggernaut. Great message dickwad.
Football, hell, all sports these days are bullshit. Athletes are overpaid momma’s boys who get paid ridiculous money and sit on their ass for weeks if they so much as get an ingrown toenail. The NFL are the biggest bunch of money sucking swine this side of wall street. The audacity of these clowns telling people not to tape games threatening lawsuits. Just displaying such a message is insulting.
And please stop with the NFL players and the charity bullshit. Taking a photo spooning out soup to the homeless is a useless gesture when they are seen 10 minutes later getting out of a limo and into a private jet. Or get caught blowing lines of coke off of strippers asses. They are lumbering idiotic apes who beat the shit out of each other for a living. The funny thing is its only illegal when dogs do it.
You snort coke off strippers’ asses, not blow it. Philistine.
One absurdity deserves another.
Wishing death on other posters is against the rules of this forum. Please refrain from making such statements in the future.
No warning issued.
Okay, so I get you know nothing about football. Fine. But you assume that that, what, every player has a microphone in their ear saying “ok, wait 20 more seconds before you start the next play, we need to work in another replay”?
Wait, what? What sporting event has ever been primarily broadcasted on a delay or taped?
If they did tape games, obviously they could edit them down to a precise amount of time. So even if you don’t know that sports are broadcast live (and I don’t know how one even comes up with that impression), the very nature of your complaint (that the running time is variable leading to pre-empted programming) should indicate to you that it’s live.
Anyway, get a DVR so she can watch her shows whenever she feels like it.
MPSIMS and its associated huggies is one forum up.