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Originally Posted by kq76
I just checked, it went 3:38. And if your team had won, I have no doubt you would have been fine with the time. I thought most of the game that the Cardinals were going to win and I never once thought, "I can't wait for this game to end". |
I don't know that I ever specifically thought, "I would watch this more if it was 30 minutes faster", but I do know I have switched away from games more quickly because I got bored with nothing happening, even if my team is winning.
One of the reasons I watch less and less baseball and American football is because of the length of time with nothing happening. 3+ hours for 15 minutes of action isn't worth it. Cut that back some, especially with baseball, and I will watch more.
Very few things in life are cut and dried, but tend to be gradual and push into gray areas. People laugh at advertising because they think in black and white terms. No, you don't see an ad and immediately think "hmm, gotta have some of that", but ads shift perceptions of products and increase sales.
Entertainment works the same way. If I have a game on, there is not a magic light that goes off and says, "it has been 14.62 minutes since anyone actually did anything that was entertaining to watch, I will change the channel now". It is more that a game is on, my wife and I are eating or talking, and if the game is losing our interest, it is more likely that we will decide that is enough for tonight and switch to something else.
With streaming, hundreds of channels, not to mention doing things on our phones or on the internet, we have so many more choices now and in most cases it is much easier to have people lose interest and switch off than it is to get them to switch back on.