09-29-2017, 02:38 PM
(This post was last modified: 09-29-2017, 02:39 PM by Bob Butler 54.)
(09-28-2017, 12:39 AM)Ragnarök_62 Wrote:(09-27-2017, 10:47 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: You can niggle the numbers a bit, but the gist is about right. Quartz put out a summary.
Under the unlikely case that you care...
I looked... It's worse than I thought. Game lasts 3 hours and 12 minutes was a shock. This 17 minutes for replays?
Obviously sports casters are extroverts. I'm sure they got more mouth time when they did their contracts.
The Sunday games are 1:00 and 4:30, so the length of the game didn't shock. It was the amount of it spent actually doing stuff.
Yes, sport casters are extroverts... I think their pay is based on their ability to keep spouting stuff to fill all that extra time. To be fair, most of it is meaningful stuff if you are into that sort of thing.
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