[IDontLikeToPayTaxes]

The only reason football is so popular can be summed up with one word:

GAMBLING

As a sport, it's ridiculously boring.

3 hours of standing around occasionally interrupted with 8 seconds of sports being played.

[caww]

....”As a sport, it's ridiculously boring......3 hours of standing around occasionally interrupted with 8 seconds of sports being played”......

It's equally as boring if your watching it on a TV screen....I sat thru one game and said never again....

But I do live in “Steeler Country” and let me tell you everything stops when they play around here. The people take this very seriously and know each player as if their own family member..... Stores have to schedule staff so all can see at least part of the game, but business is far less for the game going on.....flags go up everywhere....and oh THE FOOD MENU for all the parties galore is off the scale!....Rich or poor they all party hearty here.

And you should hear these people when they loose a game....emotions are high....they actually will scold the players! It's really quite an all consuming event for the people here......not me...no thanks.

[gusty]

With technology you can take the boredom out of the game. For example, for a football game that starts at 1pm, DVR the telecast and then return at around 3:15pm to start watching. If you work the remote well, easy to learn, you will watch every play and finish the game around the time the game ends in real time. NFL games should be 1hr, NCAA games 1hr 10min. Use the same technique for other sports, MLB 1hr. NHL 1hr 15min. Wiz right through the commercials and dead time, and sports becomes exciting. The only side effect is you can never return to watching sports live, it moves too slow.

[dr_lew]

As a sport, it's ridiculously boring.

I find it mesmerizing, and I've never placed a bet on anything in my life.

3 hours of standing around occasionally interrupted with 8 seconds of sports being played.

Rhetoric! You are comparing the total elapsed time with a single interval of play. In fact the punctuated nature of the play heightens the tension and the drama, in contrast to soccer where they just mill around on the field for several hours, on their way to a nil nil match, most times it seems, which is declared a nail biter in the aftermath.

[ModelBreaker]

“The only reason football is so popular can be summed up with one word”

But it’s a rush when you make a perfect tackle.