{"id":13486,"date":"2018-03-16T21:07:06","date_gmt":"2018-03-17T01:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mdcthereporter.com\/?p=13486"},"modified":"2020-09-08T13:48:11","modified_gmt":"2020-09-08T17:48:11","slug":"american-sports-lack-actual-action-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/american-sports-lack-actual-action-time\/","title":{"rendered":"American Sports Lack Actual Action Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-12909\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mdcthereporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Giovanni-Del-Fa-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of Giovanni Del Fa.\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Giovanni-Del-Fa-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Giovanni-Del-Fa-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Giovanni-Del-Fa-683x1024.jpg 683w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>Sports have been a huge part of my life from an early age. When I was growing up in Argentina, \u201cFutbol\u201d was shoved down my throat, and as time passed I became introduced to other sports popular with Argentinians like tennis, formula one and rugby. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Athletics were a very important form of life support when I moved to Miami from Argentina five years ago. I was thrown into an unknown culture with little appreciation for the sports I grew up watching aside from the occasional European soccer connoisseur and the abundance of Real Madrid jerseys at Kendall Soccer Park.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After a couple of years attending Felix Varela Senior High School, I realized that I wanted to seek a career in journalism and would have a better chance at doing that if I combined that interest with my knowledge of sports. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, I hit a stump. I soon became conscious of the fact that I didn\u2019t know much about American sports, which of course are the sports that thrive in the United States. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Baseball, basketball and football were all a mystery to me. I didn\u2019t understand the commotion over sports with games that only last between 48-60 minutes. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to a study by <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Wall Street Journal<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that was published in 2010, football games in the NFL are about three hours long but only have 11-12 minutes of actual action time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Throughout my time in the U.S., I have gone to one professional basketball game. It featured the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/heat\/home\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Miami Heat<\/span><\/a> versus the Minnesota Timberwolves. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No offense to basketball or American sport fanatics, but in a two-and-a-half-hour game there were only 48 minutes of play with constant timeouts. In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdcthereporter.com\/students-suffering-from-lack-of-soccer-team\/\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">soccer<\/span><\/a>, timeouts are nonexistent.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At the basketball game during halftime, a McDonalds advertisement flashed on a large screen and actual chicken tender boxes began to fall from the top of the American Airlines Arena with mini parachutes confirming my assumption that American sports are more about money than entertainment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The most consistent complaint I receive when I say that soccer is my favorite sport is that it takes 90 minutes to score one goal. In the last two FIFA World Cup finals, the games have gone into overtime and in 120 minutes of play only one goal was scored in each game.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I understand where this complaint comes from, but that\u2019s 120 minutes of nonstop action. That is with only a 15 minute halftime and another five minute break after the initial 90 minutes of action in regulation play. No halftime shows, no unnecessary music or screens telling you when or what to chant.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Americans have developed this constant need for instant gratification and are not able to live with a sport that doesn\u2019t offer constant scoring such as basketball or football. More isn\u2019t always better. Americans don\u2019t seem to appreciate that. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There\u2019s more to sports like soccer or tennis. The longest tennis match in history was more than 11 hours of full action time. It stretched out over three days. Real sports fans should see the beauty in that.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sports have been a huge part of my life from an early age. 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