NFL

I’m Irish so I don’t watch American sports too regularly, and when I do it’s only the big games in the NFL / NBA or the final few playoff games.

But here’s my 2 cents from an outsiders perspective. The sports I watch the most are the Gaelic Games (hurling & football), and rugby. These sports are 40 mins of non stop action, half time, 40 mins of non stop action, end. American sports are RIDDLED with advertisements at every available opportunity. Timeout? Ad break. Turnover? Ad break. Injury? Ad break. Penalty? Ad break, I could go on.

Now it seems as though the NFL aren’t happy with having ads between every single passage of play, they want to also incorporate ads in to the commentary as the play is happening, as per this example of Arnold plugging his book.

Couple this with two dudes who are utterly passionate about the game being played, and the guests just there to promote themselves, you can really see why this system is kinda set up to fail, which is unfortunate.