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)