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    • 420blazeit69 [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      6 months ago

      I’m not a TicTok kid shrug-outta-hecks

      A few seconds to think “wonder what they’ll do here,” a few seconds to think “what does it look like they’ll do from the alignment,” and a few seconds to think “OK they’re moving some guys before the ball is snapped, what’s that going to mean?” are not boring if you are interested in the sport.

      Most of the people saying “football is boring because there is too much downtime” would find an 8-minute condensed version of a game similarly boring. They just don’t like football.

      • HexBroke [any, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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        6 months ago

        American football was bad before TikTok existed mate

        Not really a few seconds if there’s two minutes of downtime for every minute of play.

        You can compare that to other football sports like soccer or Australian Rules football where it’s pretty much continuous play and more exciting for it.

        That said, some people are really into cricket and that drags on for days. Days.

        Is there an eight minute condensed version you can link?

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          6 months ago

          Soccer is an interesting comparison, because if you don’t understand or like it most of the action just looks like dribbling the ball around. What’s interesting is much more a function of if you like and understand the thing than some sort of objective standard. Plenty of people liked Bob Ross and that was a dude painting forgettable landscapes!

          I don’t know of any condensed games that are all the way down to 8 minutes, but there are ~40 minute versions like this that are pretty common.