I have always joked the Super Bowl was a long commercial with football breaks in between.
Guess they're going for soccer this time too.
Guess they're going for soccer this time too.
Commercials, 45 – 60 mins
"Standing Around" & Stoppages, 65 – 75 mins
The Halftime Show, 25 – 30 mins
Replays & Commentary, 15 – 20 mins
Actual Football Action - The ball is live and in play, 11 – 16 mins
Actual Football Action - The ball is live and in play, 80 mins
"Time-Off" Stoppages, 30 – 40 mins
Commercials, ~15 mins
Scheduled Breaks, 32 mins
Also this says nothing of on-ground and around-ground ads which I always found depressing, which I guess must exist in all sports.
You are completely wrong. I know that's what your intuition feels like from watching games, but if you actually get a stopwatch out and clock it, you'll see it's much closer to op than what you posted. Very close in fact.
If you don't believe it, find a actual game and time it. I did this on a game.
For example from the 8min mark to the 2min warning (6 mins of clock time) there were only 2m15s of action. Only 37.5% of the clock time was action. And that was an extremely conservative time. It was the 4th quarter, had multiple scoring plays, and multiple timeouts - essentially everything possible to do to stop the clock and still it maxed out at < 38% of the clock was actual game time. If you instead do this for a full game (not the end of the 4th quarter), and especially games that aren't close and you'll see it's way less. Definitely not what you're expecting.
Football is a tiny amount of "action time" as compared to "clock time".
The amount of "dead time" was so vast it must have taken over 3/4s of the game.
For reference, soccer matches have traditionally been 45 min half, 15 min commercials, 45 min second half.