Current Events > Hey America, you know its normal to not have commercials during sports games?

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Like with most sports you actually have uninterrupted play for 30 minutes at a time. The athletes continue doing the thing and no one is screaming about energy drinks at you every 3 minutes.

Just wanted to put that out there if you didn't know that.

sportsball lmao

pikakaeru posted...

sportsball lmao

hah hah yeah! not as cultured or mature as pokemans m i rite

I was in the US for part of the 2012 Olympics. And that's when I learned that even their commercial breaks have commercial breaks.

'This commercial break is brought to you by Geico, Pepsi, and Taco Bell!'.

It really is taking the piss.

That actually makes sense.
3-4 hours to play a 1hour game is really stretching it out.

aren't your advertisements literally on the athletes

well i guess we're doing that too now

True, but other countries put their ads on the players instead. You basically spend 3 hours watching players running around as an advertisement.

Edit: Guerrilla beat me to it.

GuerrillaSoldier posted...

aren't your advertisements literally on the athletes

well i guess we're doing that too now

Google euro hockey jersey advertisements lol. Its not even a jersey it's a billboard collage.

Gamingsince1989 posted...

True, but other countries put their ads on the players instead. You basically spend 3 hours watching players running around as an advertisement.

Edit: Guerrilla beat me to it.

Not a fan either but I think a slogan on a players shirt is less distracting that a complete halt to play so that I can watch an Emirates ad.

Idk if I'd rather keep commercials during sporting events or have to look at this all game.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/8/2/3/AAakoXAAEz0X.jpg

In Australia, at least for our rugby league, we pretty much only get commercials between tries. The video ref and all that is sponsored by KFC and shit, but you'll be watching the game and the only time you'll see a commercial is after someone scores or if it's halftime. And if it's after someone scores, it'll be like a 15 second commercial cutting right back as the scoring player kicks for a conversion.

I was gonna call bullshit on TC, because Aussie sports have a lot of commercials, but I do remember hearing that the frequency of commercials in American sports is fucked. It's not so much that we don't have commercials, it's that the frequency is significantly less fucked than American sports.

American sports (and also Canadian sports) are super friendly for gratuitous ads. Things happen, then long stretches of nothing. Sometimes we have nothing for ads.
Football, basketball, baseball, and hockey - all sorts of opportunity for ad breaks.
Soccer needs to realize that.

MabusIncarnate posted...

Idk if I'd rather keep commercials during sporting events or have to look at this all game.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/8/2/3/AAakoXAAEz0X.jpg

False dilemma imo. This is what the jerseys look like for soccer - the biggest and most lucrative sport in the world:

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/8/2/7/AADfCWAAEz0b.jpg

Questionmarktarius posted...

American sports (and also Canadian sports) are super friendly for gratuitous ads. Things happen, then long stretches of nothing. Sometimes we have nothing for ads.
Football, basketball, baseball, and hockey - all sorts of opportunity for ad breaks.
Soccer needs to realize that.

What do you mean soccer needs to realise that. Are you saying we should have more ads? No way.

MabusIncarnate posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/8/2/3/AAakoXAAEz0X.jpg

meanwhile, in NASCAR...
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/8/3/0/AAEhCpAAEz0e.jpg

Better to watch commercials than to watch soccer players put on oscar-worthy fake injuries all the time

DKBananaSlamma posted...

Better to watch commercials than to watch soccer players put on oscar-worthy fake injuries all the time

And get paid ridiculously well for it.

DKBananaSlamma posted...

Better to watch commercials than to watch soccer players put on oscar-worthy fake injuries all the time

says someone who doesn't watch basketball

Questionmarktarius posted...

says someone who doesn't watch basketball

At least in basketball, it's over in like 5 seconds either way and the game moves on quickly. In soccer, that motherfucker is rolling on the ground for like 5 minutes while the clock ticks down. It's so dumb to watch

DKBananaSlamma posted...

At least in basketball, it's over in like 5 seconds either way and the game moves on quickly.

fair

Sports is watched by the most easily fooled, gullible, slow thinkers and are the most likely to purchase something after watching an ad for it. Why would they sacrifice any ad time whatsoever with prime conditions?

Kloe_Rinz posted...

Sports is watched by the most easily fooled, gullible, slow thinkers and are the most likely to purchase something after watching an ad for it. Why would they sacrifice any ad time whatsoever with prime conditions?

rolls eyes

Yes you do that

Sports arent interesting enough for me to be bothered by commercials. I watch pretty much every sport there is, but I watch mainly in the background while doing other stuff. Baseball is a great thing to watch when you dont feel like watching anything.

pinky0926 posted...

rolls eyes

to be fair...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xffOCZYX6F8

Yes.

American football was basically built for television, as its rise coincided with the rise of TV. Basically just a platform for ad breaks.

brestugo posted...

American football was basically built for television, as its rise coincided with the rise of TV. Basically just a platform for ad breaks.

America, Fuck yeah!

America, land of capitalism!

oh you want to watch your football game?? that's cool but you should try the latest Mountain Dew or drive the latest Ford truck!

ZevLoveDOOM posted...

oh you want to watch your football game??

American football is made for long breaks.
We just went over this, in this very thread.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/8/4/7/AAEhCpAAEz0v.jpg

Questionmarktarius posted...

American football is made for long breaks.
We just went over this, in this very thread.

It's really glaring. I can understand how people outside the US find it shocking. Yes, shocking. I'm American and after a stint abroad, thought "when did this shit start?" But it's always been that way.

One of the reasons I stopped watching American football all together. There's like 13 minutes of action surrounded by ads across 3-4 hours.

Used to be you could point to the lack of advertising on uniforms as a counter to this, but even that's changed in recent years.

commercial breaks during sports games are common here in Europe as well. i dunno if they're as long as the ones during american football games tho.

either way, i was just joshin' around... lol

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/8/8/1/AAdkcxAAEz1R.png

American football just does that.
Snap to downed is nigh-instant.

GuerrillaSoldier posted...

aren't your advertisements literally on the athletes

well i guess we're doing that too now

What do you mean? I love the Manchester United TeamViewers

The game timer in soccer games actually sucks tho.

Each half is timed at 45 minutes but it never stops, when the ball goes out of bounds or even when a player gets injured. It never stops. So when the timer runs out the ref adds a few minutes of extra time (which never matches how much time was actually wasted) and then officially ends the half basically whenever he wants.

That helps avoid commercial breaks but its not good as a spectator.

Note that hockey never has commercial breaks during fights.

Intro2Logic posted...

Used to be you could point to the lack of advertising on uniforms as a counter to this, but even that's changed in recent years.

I think European football leagues (most familiar with EPL, Serie A and Ligue 1) have a decent balance of advertizing on uniforms. Latin American football clubs can get crazy, like European hockey.

Noticed a few MLB clubs are sporting ads on the shoulder this season though. Not sure when that started. NBA clubs have had one on the left shoulder quite a while.

Damn_Underscore posted...

The game timer in soccer games actually sucks tho.

Each half is timed at 45 minutes but it never stops, when the ball goes out of bounds or even when a player gets injured. It never stops. So when the timer runs out the ref adds a few minutes of extra time (which never matches how much time was actually wasted) and then officially ends the half basically whenever he wants.

That helps avoid commercial breaks but its not good as a spectator.

It's never bothered me that the clock doesn't stop with every stoppage. That kind of precision seems less important in a game that isn't made up of set pieces.

It's what you're used to, I guess.

Damn_Underscore posted...

The game timer in soccer games actually sucks tho.

Each half is timed at 45 minutes but it never stops, when the ball goes out of bounds or even when a player gets injured. It never stops. So when the timer runs out the ref adds a few minutes of extra time (which never matches how much time was actually wasted) and then officially ends the half basically whenever he wants.

That helps avoid commercial breaks but its not good as a spectator.

They're cutting down on the time wasting this season. Having stuff like 11 mins of added time and dishing out more yellows for wasting time

I'd rather watch the commercials than sit through the eternal boredom of witnessing players break their femurs by tripping on a blade of grass in another 0 - 0 game.

I don't watch much TV outside of sports because of the commercials, and even when I do watch sports (at least once a week during the NFL season), I find it pretty torturous because of all the interruptions. I don't mind the idea of commercials but they just show too damn many of them.

It's not ideal, but its not like we have any control over the matter

I'd tolerate more ads on the field and walls in American sports if it meant fewer TV commercials.

Makes sense though. With soccer you can go make food or go to the bathroom or run some errands and you wont miss anything. Other sports need those commercials so people can take a few seconds from actual action and grab a bite to eat or use the bathroom.

Vicious_Dios posted...

I'd rather watch the commercials than sit through the eternal boredom of witnessing players break their femurs by tripping on a blade of grass in another 0 - 0 game.

And yet, I recently find myself enjoying watching real football over stuff like the NFL or NBA.

gatorsPENSbucs posted...

Makes sense though. With soccer you can go make food or go to the bathroom or run some errands and you wont miss anything. Other sports need those commercials so people can take a few seconds from actual action and grab a bite to eat or use the bathroom.

If you need to eat and shit for 2hr 50min out of every 3 hours, you should contact your health professional.

Cynrascal posted...

And yet, I recently find myself enjoying watching real football over stuff like the NFL or NBA.

Give hockey a try. It's like soccer, but instead of flopping they beat the hell out of eachother.