Regardless, European football and American football provide viewers with wildly different broadcast experiences - and advertisers with different platforms. Consequently, soccer broadcasts inject advertising into the flow of the action, hence the sponsored uniforms, the branded billboards that surround the pitch and the monetized chyrons on the corner of our screens. Because of the running clock and the flowing nature of the sport itself, EPL games include over five times as much action (59 minutes) as they do commercials (10 minutes), but even the breaks they do have are neatly coalesced into the 15-minute halftime period. Soccer and basketball broadcasts both offer more action and fewer interruptions than football broadcasts - and they do it in a shorter time frame.Īn average English Premier League broadcast in our study lasted less than two hours, and a majority of that consisted of actual soccer action. Sports with more continuous action - and fewer stoppages - may have a leg up on the NFL. If you’re wonky enough to geek out on the mechanics between plays, then you’ll be entertained for a majority of the broadcast if you’re not, you’ll be bored. Still, depending on your level of football expertise and your investment in the game itself, those sequences may not actually entertain you, so the overall football entertainment density within an NFL broadcast depends on a viewer’s perspective.
They are filled with critical strategy as teams tinker with personnel, formations and play calls. And to be fair, those intervals, which represent a majority of NFL broadcasts, aren’t exactly meaningless. But one thing that makes football different from, say, soccer or basketball is that the game clock often runs between actual athletic action. Long pass plays, for example, last longer than short running plays. In other words, those who settled in to watch the entire NFC championship endured a commercial-to-action ratio of over 3-to-1.įrom the time the ball is snapped until the whistle blows, an average individual NFL play lasts just a handful of seconds, with play duration varying based on play type.
In sum, the game’s 107 total plays gave us 14 total minutes (and 16 seconds) of football action. The broadcast lasted three hours and 15 minutes, but it included 18 separate commercial breaks that in total lasted 43 minutes - not including the halftime break. Those different colors represent different broadcast experiences, and as the 49ers steadily defeated the Packers, our televisions toggled between Levi’s Stadium and Madison Avenue over and over again. Check out this visual summary of the NFC championship game: To watch an NFL broadcast is to bask in a marathon of interruptions. But the 50 minutes of commercials are also distributed over more than 20 commercial breaks. Unlike Bong Joon-ho’s thriller, NFL broadcasts include a lot of commercial breaks: About 25 percent of an average NFL broadcast is commercials.
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For context, some critics have complained that the Oscar-nominated film “ Parasite” is too long.” But that movie is 70-plus minutes shorter than an average Dolphins game, and folks, if you thought “Parasite” had a brutal ending, try watching the fourth quarter of a typical Dolphins game. Within our sample of 10 regular-season games from this season, we found that an average NFL broadcast lasted three hours and 23 minutes and included 50 minutes of commercial breaks.
And although NFL games start with one hour on the clock and include a 12-minute halftime, because of constant clock stoppages and commercial breaks, game broadcasts are much longer than that. An average NFL broadcast lasts well over three hours, yet it delivers a total of only 18 minutes of football action. Simply put, there’s not a lot of actual football in a football game. Our findings reveal that while different sports produce wildly different broadcast experiences, NFL broadcasts are among the most interrupted and least action-packed broadcasts of any sport. Our goal was to understand the makeup of the most valuable properties in sports - live game broadcasts - and to map out how these broadcasts vary across different sports. We watched dozens of broadcasts across all major sports and charted every second along the way.
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We examined the nature of pro sports broadcasts as part of the sports analytics course we taught last semester at the University of Texas. The big game hasn’t just become the nation’s most popular sporting event it’s also become America’s most important and most-watched television broadcast, an annual extravaganza that showcases our love affairs with both athleticism and capitalism.
Around 100 million Americans will tune in this Sunday to watch Super Bowl LIV.
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