From August until well into the new year, football eats up the weekend. It’s a common lament that, once the season starts, wives can’t expect much from their husbands after noon on Saturday and Sunday.
Football, despite the fitness of its players, is a flabby sport. The average professional game is more than three hours long, but the ball is in play for only about 11 minutes. As columnist George Will once quipped, “Football combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meetings.” Most of what you see is players spending 40 seconds preparing for the next play, commentators discussing what has just occurred, and commercials. There is a more efficient way to consume football.