As football fans eagerly look forward to the usual three-hour TV extravaganzas of the professional football games leading to the Super Bowl, some less-than-enthusiastic wives may retreat to another room. But The Wall Street Journal has given us a surprising fact.
The newspaper says that for all the action and hoopla, there are only about 11 minutes of actual playing time in each game!
How’s that? Statisticians with stop watches have timed the action — from the centering of the ball to the whistle that ends each play. They have found that in the four 15-minute quarters, there is active “play” for only about 11 minutes in a typical National Football League game!
Well, that may be a big surprise. But there surely will be millions of enthusiastic Americans in the stands, watching television and listening on radio for many hours as the final big games take place.