If the NFL did not exist then surely it would have been created by an amalgam of beer, car and snack-food companies. Because you see more beer, cars and chips than you do on-field action when you watch NFL on TV. The Wall Street Journal analyzed NFL games a couple of years ago and found that a game that takes nearly 3 hours to watch should only take 11 minutes because that is all the action you get. Or looking at it another way you could take the action from 16 games and combine it all into the time it takes to televise one game.
A Dozen Reasons Why The NFL Will Never Make It Outside Of The USA
Next time you watch another passive Russia and hyperactive Croatia go at it for 120 minutes, thank the Lord.