NFL Watch-ability and Future

[jfkbengals]

(09-28-2015, 03:02 PM)Blake2Pickens Wrote: The average NFL game has 11 minutes of true live action in the 4 hour broadcast.  

The easiest way to refute this is by pointing out DirecTVs replays.  These come out late Sunday night/early Monday morning.  The ONLY thing shown is snap to whistle.  The running clock is removed.  Replays are removed.  They last 30 minutes, and will sometimes have to cut kickoffs and punts that end in touch backs in order to fit it into 30 minutes.

And since it is a subscription offering, there are no commercials, just 30 minutes of plays.

(09-28-2015, 03:41 PM)PhilHos Wrote: Also if holding happens on every play, call it every damn time until the players stop holding.

This will be the opposite of what the OP wants.  Holding has ALWAYS happened on every play and historically was only occasionally called (go back to the 70's and the "if you aren't cheating, you aren't trying" mantra).  Only in the last 10 years has the number of holding calls really increased.  The OP seems to want the game to return to the early 2000s, so holding should happen routinely and rarely get called.