Why are there so many interruptions in american football?

Question

why isn't there any flow of the game?

i meant interruptions during the game. after 3 or 4 seconds the game starts, the referee whistles and they start again

i am not talking about commercial breaks

Answer 1

Americans are dumb.

Answer 2

It's not an "interruption". It's more of a regrouping after the play ends.

The play ends when a player is either tackled with the ball, a pass is thrown and nobody catches it, when somebody scores or when somebody goes out of the play of field.

During that time, the team regroups and plans for a new play. It's a part of what makes the game different from any other form of rugby or football.

No continuous play adds a mental aspect to a game that you'll never see in cricket, soccer, baseball, ice hockey or tennis.

Added, I don't think he's from the Land of Eng or even the Kingdom of United, I think he's from Bangladesh. Land of cricket and poorly made clothing.

Answer 3

Thank you for you question.

The flow of the game may not be apparent to the casual observer, but it's definitely there.

Here's a good way to look at it: Every play in the game has a completely different tactical requirement based on the yardage needed for a first down, the varying strengths of the opposing defense, the time left on the clock, how far ahead/behind you are, etc. etc. There are really endless permutations of strategy in American football.

So rather than think of it in terms of a soccer match where there is just one continuous flow of play, think of it as a very fast, very hard-hitting chess match.

Answer 4

Congress let one company own all commercial broadcasting. Love this story before this happened one network broke for commercial and touch down happened that effected game. So much hell was raised that this did not happen again for year, but that's ancient history now, because your lucky to see four downs in a row. Blame congress for doing away with competition.

Answer 5

Thta's the way the game is. Get used to it. It is annoying but unlike soccer which supposedly flows, I'd take the scoring in the NFL and great plays over stupid 0-0 soccer games anyday.

You want flow, watch hockey (as in ice, Land of Eng person) as that rocks and is fast and flowing plus has (shock! horror!) actual shots on goal and goals.

Answer 6

If you attend games in person I believe you will find that it "flows" a great deal more. As previous answers said, all the interruptions have to do with selling advertising time for a television audience.

It kills me: Touchdown, commercial. Kickoff, commercial. >:(

Answer 7

commercials

they gotta make their money somehow, how else do you think they pay millions to the players? they don't make that much profit off game tickets after paying all the vendors and toilet scrubbers!

it's pretty lame to go to a game and see everyone just standing around scratching their as$e$ during a commercial break

time-outs, what the hell do they need them for if they get a guaranteed break every 15-20 min?!?!?

Answer 8

for people to make money with commercials, and timeouts and breaks in the play are a strategy for the teams mentally and to gain advantages in different ways, and dont hate on Americans, if ya dont like it go watch soccer

Answer 9

It cost alot of money for the rights to broadcast the NFL

Answer 10

commercials...to pay the networks, the networks pay the leagues,
the leagues pay the players or colleges and so on..commercials are the backbone of commerce..

Answer 11

One word for you... "commercialization"