If you attend college football games in person you may already be aware of this. But, as a season ticket holder at State U I am well aware of the length of the games. Last weekend, my beloved Missouri Tigers lost to the Georgia Bulldogs 28-27. The actual time to play the game came in three minutes short of four hours. FOUR HOURS!!
It used to be a college football game could be played in a little over two and a half hours and about 2:45 if there were a lot of passes. But, now there are even more passes but that is not the problem. The problem for the long games is television. You can blame ESPN and FOX for loading tons and tons of commercials into every game.
If you are at home you may not realize how many commercials there are because you are getting up to go pee or go to the kitchen to get a beer or sandwich. But, if you're at the stadium then you notice just how many there are as an official stands on the 20 yard line with his arms crossed. Until that man unfolds his arms, there's not going to be any football for those in the stands who have paid top dollar to see the game.
I noticed it again yesterday. Missouri took on Delaware State and it took two hours to play the first half of the game. TWO HOURS and Delaware State never scored. It was 58-0 at the half. Again the reason for the length of the game is greed. Greed on the part of the Disney Company which owns ABC which owns all of the ESPN networks and greed on the part of the FOX networks.
This has got to stop.
