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.
