World Cup starts today

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I guess this is the one that shane is refering to. I wouldve been really happy to see a few more NL players shown the red card for sure.

[Ben]

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@TCPlomp wrote:

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Coming back to the football vs. football discussion, I have one thing to add. It must be a sign when the main discussion after a final is not about the game but about the commercials in the half-time break... (yes NFL I am talking about you)

Ton

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 Ok I'll bite.

I imagine companies would be shelling out just as much or more to produce and have their commercials aired durring non-egg-ball games as well... if the audience was still awake when they get to half time. I had to laugh when watching the BBC's highlights of the final game. The highlight clip featured about 2 minutes of videos of crowds watching screens and unless I blinked at the wrong time, not a second of the actual game.

Spoiler

Egg-ball is well established in the hills of Western Pennsylvania. Between the Steelers and producing Joe Montana (The Joe Montana Bridge is in my son's backyard) we can claim connection with at lest 11 Super Bowls and if I add in my travels when following my father as  child, I was in NY when the Jets won and Florida when the Dolphins went undefeated, I have even more.

Bait taken. Your turn.

Ben

[Intaris]

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@Ben wrote:

I imagine companies would be shelling out just as much or more to produce and have their commercials aired durring non-egg-ball games as well... if the audience was still awake when they get to half time. I had to laugh when watching the BBC's highlights of the final game. The highlight clip featured about 2 minutes of videos of crowds watching screens and unless I blinked at the wrong time, not a second of the actual game.

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I had to laugh when on our local television station immediately after the coverage for the world cup final Nike ran what looked like a very expensive Ad featuring the Dutch national team with all kinds of inspirational messages.

Guess they were hoping for a different outcome....

Shane.

PS Re: BBC.  They probably didn't have the rights to broadcast images of the game itself.  The rights to the actual game footage is VERY expensive for the broadcasters and there's a huge price difference between showing footage half-an-hour after tha game and showing it the next day..... FIFA is a money machine.  I read that they made a Billion (A thousand million to be clear) on the world cup.

[Ben]

According to this site they are different animals. But since this started with a discusion of commercials if we loo at the amount of ad revenue per unit time of play, the Super Bowl brings in 10X as much.

Your turn to re-crunch.

Ben

[Intaris]

I've yet to see a 60-minute game of american football (according to the link)....

Yeah, the clock counts down from 60 minutes, but you need to factor in about 2.5 hours for a game, no?  That makes an awful lot of space for advertising.

Shane

[Ben]

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@Intaris wrote:

I've yet to see a 60-minute game of american football (according to the link)....

Yeah, the clock counts down from 60 minutes, but you need to factor in about 2.5 hours for a game, no?  That makes an awful lot of space for advertising.

Shane

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I have. The local stations re-cast the Steelers game the day after without breaks and skipping all time-out penalties etc. Done in an hour and realy spooky.

Ben

[Intaris]

That sounds cool.

My problem watching american football on television years ago was the "windows progress bar" aspect of timing.  the first 50 minutes would go by relatively quickly and then the last 10 minutes need nearly as long.......

[Hornless.Rhino]

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@Intaris wrote:

That sounds cool.

My problem watching american football on television years ago was the "windows progress bar" aspect of timing.  the first 50 minutes would go by relatively quickly and then the last 10 minutes need nearly as long.......

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Live sports: Bringing logarithms to your living room.

[Ben]

My gang has returned from NI-Week with a story for me.

One of my rookies managed to place at the top in the qualifying rounds but was passed up since they had trouble contacting him. So they watched the competition. They (my boss and another CLA) are certain Brad would have stuffed the cometition including the "wire-Slinger" himself.

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Now If I could only get Brad to start using my short-cuts, so he can code as fast as ...

I'll leave it at that.

Ben

[Darren]

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Ben wrote:

They (my boss and another CLA) are certain Brad would have stuffed the cometition including the "wire-Slinger" himself.

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You know, Ben...I've been subject to similar claims so many times in the past...at this point I just chuckle a little bit when I hear them.  😉