Where did it originate from - the idea that it should be an hour and a half?.....and why?
2006-07-12 04:37:52 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Sports ➔ Football ➔ English Football
its not its four 15 min quarters. which is an hour. and in real time if u watch the pro or college they are 3-4 hrs long
hahahah my bad i just saw it on the bottom of the page and no1 had answered yet. and i just assumed it was american football. cuz its soccer here. actually its called boredom that no cares bout if they aint playing
2006-07-12 04:41:37 · answer #1 · answered by Clint87 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If hockey was 90 minutes long, there would be 30 minute periods.. That would be EXTREMELY tiring for the players. Sad to say, hockey IS a WAY harder sport than the other two mentioned. Rugby.. well, I don't watch it. And a football game always gives you rest periods. For a defender, the rest period is when the ball is in the attacking third and vice versa for a striker. For a midfielder, the rest period is whenever your team has the ball. They're just making simple 1 touch passes and moving around. With outside midfielders, the rest period is when you get the ball. Most outside midfielders have the ball and slowly progress with it. For example, Ronaldo is always on the corners, doing his stepovers. Stepovers aren't really a hard thing to do.. so he's doing two things at one time. Ronaldo is confusing his defender and getting rest at the same time. :)
2016-03-27 02:30:30 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
lol nice one waynewalsh! wot are you talking about flunkywoman? and "hello" he's talking about the beautiful and original sport of FOOTBALL (the one where you actually use your FEET to play the ball around), and not the american version that makes TONNES of sense!!.. ADAM i bet its because the people who created this time rule had kept into consideration the fact that the players are all humans and that it would be mad to ask them to play for more than 45 minutes in one half.
2006-07-12 21:01:46 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Football is longer than 90 minutes. is broken down into quarters,but with timeouts,pentilies,commericals. it is longer than 90 minutes. and lets not forget overtime too. if you find it is to long than maybe it's not the sport for you.
2006-07-12 04:45:40 · answer #4 · answered by hello 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
THAT"S IT???
Only 90 minutes? I thought they were at least 5 hours long... I guess time flies when you are having fun...
Futbol (soccer) Haha.
2006-07-12 04:42:49 · answer #5 · answered by TeeDawg 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because it has two 45min periods thats 90 min.
2006-07-12 04:46:18 · answer #6 · answered by deadly 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because each half is 45mins and multiply that by 2 is 90
2006-07-12 09:24:57 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because.....it gives a perfect window to leave him behind while one goes out to buy the shoes you saw the other day but didnt have time to try on....
2006-07-12 04:51:13 · answer #8 · answered by SunnyDays 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
clint87 he meant the real football not american football.. well its just like that, the same reason why baseball only has 9 innings
2006-07-12 04:44:06 · answer #9 · answered by Sad Monkey 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
thats enough time for a game to develop and long enough for players to go without getting tired
2006-07-12 05:28:32 · answer #10 · answered by Toomg 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋