Frazz by Jef Mallett for July 25, 2012

Football games should last only 2 minutes. Look at the intensity of play. How often is the outcome decided in those 2 minutes?

I don’t think it’s going away any time soon…..

I’d like to see the NHL go back to the tie.

I read somewhere once that someone took a stop watch to a football game and started it at the snap of the ball and stopped it at the end of the play and repeated this process through the rest of the game. At the end of the 60 minute game that took 3 hours to play, the stop watch had ticked off a little more than 7 minutes of actual playing time. I guess they spent the other 53 minutes watching the last two minutes of a basketball game.

That football is just a crazy fad.It’s not going to last any longer than that “rock and roll” stuff.

I’ve seen football games where the final two minutes were dragged out over 25 minutes, which was really annoying because it ran overtime and bumped the program I really wanted to watch.

“maybe that explains the advent of overtime”or it could explain the name of that overtime

Calling St. Telemachus…

Ooh! I was married to a high school college defensive lineman for thirteen years…those little helmet to helmet hits would explain a lot!

Brilliant assessment of a stupid sport.

I guess I get to be the one who points out that Miz P is doing that female athlete trick of changing shirts while always wearing a shirt and remaining fully covered.

Overtime is to break ties. (Soccer fans, have someone explain the concept to you.)

Who would really want to see more of a soccer match? (zips up flame suit ;) )

Yeah, I played the thump-thump sports…lots of judo, football, falling off horses and cows, getting out of airplanes before they land, etc…now I wish maybe I had been born in a time of drones, robots, and momma dearests who make their kids wear helmets and take them to and from school. Of course I’d have weighed three hundred pounds in the sixth grade…

One time I made a comic strip where a guy was trying to scare high school football players off the field because of the statistical risk of spinal cord injuries. One football player finally put this guy in his place by thanking him for his concern, but that this game had the proper medical staff and that the players will be careful. Nonetheless, the spoilsport went to the sidelines in a panic to get a stretcher ready.

Wher is he seeing those reports? I don’t think MSM wants to kill a cash-cow.

A typical play takes five to ten seconds. Each team usually runs around 50 to 60 offensive plays, I think. If it’s 60 plays @ ten seconds, thats ten minutes per offense, or twenty minutes total. If it’s 50 @ five seconds each, that’s less than ten minutes.

… or the two minutes left in the last class before the school’s out for the summer.

why don’t my comments show?

I wouldn’t be so sure about that. Kids see pros play, and the will play to emulate the pros, regardless of how their moms want them to play. If kids did play flag or powder puff, imagine the teasing they would have to endure. They will play how they want whether or not they have Mama’s blessing. If it were just a matter of moms vss football, I would bet on moms. Throw in a kids innate feelings of invincibility though, and it’s a whole ’nother ball game.

One sport I would not mind losing is boxing, but there is too much money in that.

Sometimes when I was watching a game my wife would ask how much longer the game was going to last, and I would tell her “there’s 7 minutes to play.” She’d come back 20 minutes later and there would be maybe 3 minutes left. She now understands the concept of “football minutes” as opposed to real time.