Games aren't for the game anymore

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Games aren't for the game anymore

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In case you were wondering why the clock doesn't stop for a first down...

Somebody on Reddit was paying attention to the commercials that kept being interrupted by a football game
FINAL COMMERCIAL COUNTER (Texas at Alabama broadcast):
NFL Sunday Ticket: 5
Allstate: 4
College Football: 4
eBay Motors: 4
AT&T: 3
Chick-Fil-A: 3
Coca-Cola: 3
Coors Light: 3
Dr Pepper: 3
Modelo: 3
Red Bull: 3
SEC: 3
Taco Bell: 3
UFC 293: 3
American Family Insurance: 2
Bank of America: 2
Ford: 2
Gatorade: 2
HP: 2
IBM: 2
IHOP: 2
Lexus: 2
Mazda: 2
Mercedes-Benz: 2
Monday Night Football: 2
Nissan: 2
Progressive: 2
Ram: 2
State Farm: 2
Target: 2
The Home Depot: 2
Thursday Night Football: 2
Twisted Tea: 2
USAA: 2
Warby Parker: 2
2 Hoots: 1
A Haunting In Venice: 1
Aflac: 1
Alabama: 1
Anthropologie: 1
Big Green Egg: 1
Boar's Head: 1
Build Submarines: 1
California Almonds: 1
Care Credit: 1
Carmax: 1
Chewy: 1
Cracker Barrel: 1
Dave & Busters: 1
Dell: 1
Dick's: 1
DirecTV: 1
Dos Equis: 1
Duluth Trading: 1
Fortnite: 1
FX: 1
Genesis: 1
Google: 1
HealthCare: 1
Hulu: 1
IHG: 1
Invesco QQQ: 1
La Liga: 1
Libman: 1
Litter Robot: 1
Mentos : 1
Native: 1
Nike: 1
Old El Paso: 1
Otterbox: 1
Papa Johns: 1
Plastic Makers: 1
Safelite: 1
Sonic: 1
Squarespace: 1
Starfield: 1
Straight Talk: 1
Subaru: 1
Sunday Night Baseball: 1
SuperCuts: 1
T. Rowe Price: 1
Texas: 1
The Creator: 1
Unsellable Houses: 1
US Army: 1
US Open: 1
Vividseats: 1
Vrbo: 1
Weather Channel: 1
Welcome To Wrexham: 1
Yeti: 1

1ST QUARTER NON-LOCAL COMMERCIALS: 24
1ST QUARTER COMMERCIAL TIME: 8:23

2ND QUARTER NON-LOCAL COMMERCIALS: 37
2ND QUARTER COMMERCIAL TIME: 14:15

HALFTIME NON-LOCAL COMMERCIALS: 27
HALFTIME COMMERCIAL TIME: 10:06

3RD QUARTER NON-LOCAL COMMERCIALS: 22
3RD QUARTER COMMERCIAL TIME: 8:37

4TH QUARTER NON-LOCAL COMMERCIALS: 35
4TH QUARTER COMMERCIAL TIME: 13:59



TOTAL NON-LOCAL COMMERCIALS: 145
TOTAL COMMERCIAL TIME: 55:22
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Re: Games aren't for the game anymore

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Wow. An hour worth of commercials. Even taking away HT that's still over 45 min worth of commercials. No wonder it seemed like that game was on forever. Same with the miami and TA&M game.
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Week 1 viewers noticed right away the upsurge of commercials saturating through the broadcasts. An algorithm was used to pace commericals out. In contrast, the NFL, which hoists more contractual control over it's broadcasts, smartly regulated commercials from getting out of hand. The below video is a good primer on what the heck happened:


And I said, ‘That last thing is what you can't get...Nobody can get to that last thing. We keep on living in hopes of catching it once and for all.’ Jack Kerouac, On The Road
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Re: Games aren't for the game anymore

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I hadn't noticed anything different the first two games. But I was at a sports bar for the game Saturday so was just watching all the other games during commercials. Will see if I notice anything different or feel different about anything this week
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