K-town Vol Fan
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Don't pull the "you don't love football if you don't want to watch a 4 hour game." Nonsense. Maybe I want the games to be a reasonable time so that I can watch more games. A 4 hour game isn't good for anyone. Not the players health and damn sure not my blood pressure.No they aren't. That's ridiculous too. If you don't like football then don't like football. Those of us who love the game do NOT want less of it. If anything, there is already too much opportunity for teams to run the clock out.
If you want to shorten the game then shorten the commercial timeouts. There are about 40 1st downs in an average game. If the clock is stopped for an average of even 10 seconds that reduces the length of the run time by less than 7 minutes. That's pretty big in actual play time... but pretty much nothing to the length of the game including clock stoppages. Worst case, actual play including 1st down stoppages consumes around 70 minutes. Add 20 minutes for half time and a minute each for a timeout... and you're at around an hour and a half. It isn't the "game" that's too long.