2006-06-17 07:20:07 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Sports ➔ Football (American)
First of all, to every one who has answered, the Soccer games (World Cup, MLS, etc.) are not less capitalistic than the football games. Look in the corner of your screen and you will see that Kodak or Pepsi or whomever has paid for this portion of the game. The announcers in Soccer games will even verbally tell you that "this portion of the game is brought to you commercial-free by Nike".
The truth is that the soccer clock doesn't stop. A game changing play can occur at any time. It would be potentially embarrasing for Soccer games to cut to a commercial and miss a goal.
American Football, however, has plenty of pauses. Whether it is after a score, during a time-out, or what is oddly referred to as a "TV Time-out", the game isn't as dependant on the clock.
This isn't to say that one is better than the other, but watching American Football without the brief pauses would get rather tedious.
Besides, if there weren't commercial breaks during Football games, when would I get up to get myself a beer?
2006-06-17 07:45:20 · answer #1 · answered by Tiller 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Because the World Cup is awesome and American Football is not.
2006-06-17 07:23:43 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because the American football clock can stop whereas the soccer clock does not. And America is all about commercialism - think of the Superbowl and its big-time commercials.
2006-06-17 07:24:41 · answer #3 · answered by buxinator 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The NFL is privately owned and is for-profit. They make money by selling commercials and if they did not they would not be able to pay the players such ridiculous salaries. It is all about greed and money. Remember we live in a Market driven economy.
2006-06-17 07:26:17 · answer #4 · answered by zarabeth2004 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In American football the profit $$$$ has to come in are they would not be able to pay for good players.
2006-06-18 11:05:47 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
american sports feed off the networks who feed off the advertising industry, that's why the us will never be a soccer power, 45 minutes without a commercial breaks is a network's worst nightmare,
2006-06-17 07:38:07 · answer #6 · answered by np b 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because 30 countries entire populations arent watching american football games
2006-06-17 07:23:24 · answer #7 · answered by ripdom415 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because there is an actual audience in America for football and not for soccer.
2006-06-17 07:24:41 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
One nfl games takealot of breaks(quarter,challenges,after every score) and the other is that the nfl wants to make money off the advertising.
2006-06-17 07:24:06 · answer #9 · answered by Luigi 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
American football has more pauses then soccer does.
2006-06-17 07:24:23 · answer #10 · answered by J31899 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋