Chuck Klosterman

Yeah.

It's very, it's like for somebody my age, it was very weird to see like, like a tiny batting first.

I was like, right.

The things you're saying are all true, but I guess I feel like it's something even much bigger than that.

Oh, no question.

I'm just saying that I think that stuff helps.

But what I'm saying is like, okay, so...

One thing that's often mentioned, particularly by people who don't like football, is a kind of a very famous Wall Street Journal article from 2011, where these guys studied these pro football games and they were like, you know, in a three hour telecast of an NFL game, there's 11 minutes of action.

Right.

You're sitting there for three hours and there's 11 minutes of action.

Now, if somebody was inventing football right now for the first time.

There was no way that would get through the pitch meeting.

If they said this is a three-hour sport and there's actually about 11 minutes of action, people would say like, that's insane.

No one's going to sit through that.

Nobody wants that.

That's a huge flaw.

But it's not a flaw.

As it turns out, 11 minutes is the perfect amount.

Because these things you're talking about, they happen in between plays.

Like football has this accidental upside, which is super intense hyperaction in this small window of time, maybe seven seconds.