It was designed for ad breaks
You can't get many of those in a proper footy game.
( jim_bob can herd cats., Mon 4 Feb 2008, 1:10, archived)

I know
but it really irritates me, especially when you see how much they all get paid as well.

The thing is, when they finally manage to pull off one of their 'plays' and score, it's actually quite impressive, but it only happens twice a game or something stupid and you have to sit through the rest of the nonsense to get to it
( elusive I'm not really here. You're imagining me, Mon 4 Feb 2008, 1:13, archived)

And this is different from the Premiership how exactly?

( jim_bob can herd cats., Mon 4 Feb 2008, 1:14, archived)

The 'season' consists of 16 games
plus a few more if they get to the superbowly stuff
It only lasts 17 weeks each year (plus the superbowl etc)
Each game only consists of 60 mins of actual play, with barely more than 45 seconds of continuous exertion at any one time
Since each team literally has about 3 times the number of players they actually need, constantly available, none of them ever even play a full game anyway

Premiership footballers are overpaid, but these guys are just taking the piss


Edit: unless you were talking about the nothing happening bit, which is fair enough, but at least there's a constant flow towards trying to score etc, as opposed to timeout, discussion,timeout,discussion, timeout etc
( elusive I'm not really here. You're imagining me, Mon 4 Feb 2008, 1:20, archived)

I can see how that would be irksome

( jim_bob can herd cats., Mon 4 Feb 2008, 1:22, archived)

every team is essentially two teams anyway
offence and defence
( Jenk Neptune is a pedant and now I can't fit my sig in, Mon 4 Feb 2008, 1:22, archived)

apparently they get paid less then english footballers
on average
(rigby happened on (and with added toothache), Mon 4 Feb 2008, 1:16, archived)

after endorsements
they get shitloads.
( Jenk Neptune is a pedant and now I can't fit my sig in, Mon 4 Feb 2008, 1:19, archived)

true

(rigby happened on (and with added toothache), Mon 4 Feb 2008, 1:27, archived)